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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby gnm » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 12:23:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhilBiker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'F')actory farming is bad for the animal AND bad for whomever eats the crummy meat toxin filled meat. Buying from small local and or organic/free range farms is a good solution.
How about petrochemical dependant factory farming of grain, corn, soy, canola, etc.?


Can't really argue with that.. The solution for that is small, local, and organic also. But just how expensive would food be if it was ALL raised that way? Scary thought.

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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 12:35:10

Well this topic should then divide: Economic, or animal comfort. What your are saying, in my mind is that if a cow is able to run around an organic field for a couple months, it's ok then to cut its throat, rip its hide off, butcher its flesh and sell it (at a premium). in organic shops...it's a good thing. This to me is so fucking hypocritical I'm just floored. The public display of this hypocricy is disturbing...

This 'organic' bullshit just means this: I dont give a shit how my cow/chicken/hog lives as long as it's organic...kill it anyway you want just dont feed it GM feed, etc., God damn what kind of reality is this?
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Raxozanne » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 13:12:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he difference is the suffering for chickens and pigs and cows in factory farms


What suffering? How is it that you know what suffering is to another species?
Are you psychic? Budahha? Recarniated form a fram animal? Again, projection. Do these animals stop eating/drinking? Maybe that is (in the animal mind), all there is to life; food and water. Everything else is just...just


It's very easy Petro.

All animals have something called 'nerves' which allow for the reception of stimuli from the environment to indicate what is good or bad for that creature. It ensures that the animal stays away from harmful things or does not do things harmful to itself. For instance get your pet bird and walk it through a bonfire. Chances are the bird will be distraught and have received numerous painful negative feedback that touching fire is bad and will likely stay far away from fire in the future.

Broken legs, wings or urine induced burning all through overcrowding in factory farms undoubtedly cause a negative feedback to the lifeform in the form of discomfort and pain to indict that its health is being negatively impaired.

Maybe you need to go read a basic science book.

So stop with the 'do we really know if they are suffering?' bu****t and 'they were brought up like this for so long it's natural to them now' because it just doesn't wash.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 13:34:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', 'O')h please! The bird that I own and I are bonded beyond what is considered reasonable. When I leave the room he whistles, says everything in his
verbal inventory. Squawks, etc., I prean his feathers and he (to my discomfort), preans me. It's a case of mamal vs. avion species, yet we are both depedant on each other. We are bonded...there isnt any other description that will suffice...it is no differece than the bond between me and my dogs...just a species difference


It is only this way because you have taken the time to notice and interact with the bird...thereby in your mind you have elevated it to a status above that of a chicken that no one gives a shit about except as a meal.

My riding instructor has chickens for pets. Yes, pets, the rooster is very engaging.

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Can't really argue with that.. The solution for that is small, local, and organic also. But just how expensive would food be if it was ALL raised that way? Scary thought.

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actually in the long run it would be cheaper because you would not have all of these people with asses the size of buicks needing angioplasty and dialysis, spending billions on the latest wonder diet.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 13:41:49

Maybe...just maybe you should (rather than telling me what I should study), is for you go read this whold thread. You might find a particular perspective; where an actual person raised a herd of cattle. I'm not going to do the work of retrieving the post, but, I suggest that you do.

After you do you might want to spend some serious time considering:

The reaction of the other cows to the death of a 'fellow' cow. Shoudl you find this (as described by the author), dynamic interesting with respect to the herd behavior concerning the abject slaughter of a felllow cow you might find some reality. Nature has given herd/food animals a gentle, but needed survival mechanism: indeference. This is the mechanism whereby that particualr spesies survives. But you wont get this dynamic. Have you ever watched the dynamic of a pack of dogs, when the alpha males dies...do they sit around and morn....do they tear clothe like the jews...and wail? nope. There are more important things to consider...the regroup...and prevail...


According to your thinking if anything get's too icky...we should just starve....ack...they suffer...I'lll die

I wont eat that stuff....but the bullshit factor is...your will eat it...but you want if fluffy...like a down pilllow...no suffering..


Wake the fuck up!
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 13:53:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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Have you ever watched the dynamic of a pack of dogs, when the alpha males dies...do they sit around and morn....do they tear clothe like the jews...and wail? nope. There are more important things to consider...the regroup...and prevail...



actually they do. You should do a little research on the wolves of ellesmere island, it is fasinating. Horses in particular will mourn the loss of a herd member, I have seen it myself many times as a child...I once saw a pony go through a fence to stay with the body of a deceased friend that was being removed. Once the body was gone the pony spent days in a depressed state.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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According to your thinking if anything get's too icky...we should just starve....ack...they suffer...I'lll die
Wake the fuck up!


Who said we should just starve? Why is the thought of giving the right of respect and a decent life to food animals so appalling to you? Is it because you are part of the system and the thought of changing is to difficult?

Find your heart, it seems you lost it somewhere along the way.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:01:10

Heart? This is a sticky thing...don't you think.
My heart tells me: don't slaughter others
Does this equal survival?

Hah...All I can see is you calf-rope, sacrifial love hope and non-beneficial types nudging in on those that are willing to feed you...what does you and your paradigm offer? (and I'm not interested in bullshit...what do you offer future man?)
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:03:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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...what does you and your paradigm offer? (and I'm not interested in bullshit...what do you offer future man?)


well that remains to be seen and once the cheap fuel runs out, we will indeed see.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:08:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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...what does you and your paradigm offer? (and I'm not interested in bullshit...what do you offer future man?)


well that remains to be seen and once the cheap fuel runs out, we will indeed see.


You're absolutely right...And I predict that your type will be scambling to find someone that can slaughter, perserve, pot, etc., These thing wil equate to survival...but heh, don't want to bother you with that ugly underneath.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:11:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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You're absolutely right...And I predict that your type will be scambling to find someone that can slaughter, perserve, pot, etc., These thing wil equate to survival...but heh, don't want to bother you with that ugly underneath.


nope, I think you are wrong. I think once the system can no longer support factory farming and the enormous waste of life that goes along with it, your type will starve to death because they know nothing about real farming. I do.

Oh, and you never answered my question...
Why is the thought of giving the right of respect and a decent life to food animals so appalling to you?
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:20:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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You're absolutely right...And I predict that your type will be scambling to find someone that can slaughter, perserve, pot, etc., These thing wil equate to survival...but heh, don't want to bother you with that ugly underneath.


nope, I think you are wrong. I think once the system can no longer support factory farming and the enormous waste of life that goes along with it, your type will starve to death because they know nothing about real farming. I do.


Well this fantasy of yours is great (you should sell it to PETA), but the (again, I know you hate this word: REALITY), is that I have (my whole life, thanks to a father that undedrstood real manhood), spent my life knowing what it takes to survive. I'll bet you have never experienced anything tougher than a line at the express counter. I have shot deer, both doe and b uck, trapped muskrat, beaver, mink, fox etc., you, in your casual life thing you've got it all figured out...what willlyou do to keep your childre warm?
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Petro » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:21:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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You're absolutely right...And I predict that your type will be scambling to find someone that can slaughter, perserve, pot, etc., These thing wil equate to survival...but heh, don't want to bother you with that ugly underneath.


nope, I think you are wrong. I think once the system can no longer support factory farming and the enormous waste of life that goes along with it, your type will starve to death because they know nothing about real farming. I do.

Oh, and you never answered my question...
Why is the thought of giving the right of respect and a decent life to food animals so appalling to you?


I have a simple question:
what will 'YOU', do to keep your children fed, and safe?
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:24:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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Well this fantasy of yours is great (you should sell it to PETA), but the (again, I know you hate this word: REALITY), is that I have (my whole life, thanks to a father that undedrstood real manhood), spent my life knowing what it takes to survive. I'll bet you have never experienced anything tougher than a line at the express counter. I have shot deer, both doe and b uck, trapped muskrat, beaver, mink, fox etc., you, in your casual life thing you've got it all figured out...what willlyou do to keep your childre warm?


Your powers of assumption are astounding! You know nothing about me, or my life.

You also are not taking the time to read what I have written, otherwise you would know that I do not have a problem with hunting, as long as it is done with a sense of fairness. My big beef is with the cruelty of factory farming, dooming animals to a life of misery just so we can eat cheap.

Since you are not going to read what I write, I am not going to bother to answer you anymore as it is clearly a waste of my time.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby Raxozanne » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:30:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '
')Since you are not going to read what I write, I am not going to bother to answer you anymore as it is clearly a waste of my time.


I agree, there is no point in having a discussion with someone who goes off on tangents and 'particular perspectives' at every turn.

I talk about the scientific certainty of pain receptors and nerves and then all of a sudden its about cows and their limited emotional ability for grief. How it links up I don't know. Best to throw in the towel. :lol:
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:32:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '
')Since you are not going to read what I write, I am not going to bother to answer you anymore as it is clearly a waste of my time.


I agree, there is no point in having a discussion with someone who goes off on tangents and 'particular perspectives' at every turn.

I talk about the scientific certainty of pain receptors and nerves and then all of a sudden its about cows and their limited emotional ability for grief. How it links up I don't know. Best to throw in the towel. :lol:


exactly...it goes to further my feeling that I would rather be around animals than most people!
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby PhilBiker » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:42:23

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'W')hy is the thought of giving the right of respect and a decent life to food animals so appalling to you? Is it because you are part of the system and the thought of changing is to difficult?
But to get back to the original intent of the group PeTA, they don't advocate "respect and a decent life to food animals". They use propaganda like the ugly slaughter videos to advance their insane agenda of ending meat eating altogether.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby PhilBiker » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:46:52

Regarding this whole issue..... Not to go too far off tangent.

Do you think of the slaughter pictures and videos when you eat meat?

If so, do you think of these horrible appalling images when you turn the lights on or use your computer or watch TV? I do. :cry:


We certainly do take our toll on this Earth, don't we.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:48:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhilBiker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'W')hy is the thought of giving the right of respect and a decent life to food animals so appalling to you? Is it because you are part of the system and the thought of changing is to difficult?
But to get back to the original intent of the group PeTA, they don't advocate "respect and a decent life to food animals". They use propaganda like the ugly slaughter videos to advance their insane agenda of ending meat eating altogether.


well, I am not sure I consider the agenda of people not eating meat insane, but I will concede the point.

But still, people need to see where their food comes from. There is such a huge disconnect between what the animal is and what it goes through and what ends up in the groccery store.

This sort of disconnect is what leads to complacency and waste....and that in and of itself is just wrong.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby SinisterBlueCat » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 14:58:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhilBiker', 'R')egarding this whole issue..... Not to go too far off tangent.

Do you think of the slaughter pictures and videos when you eat meat?


Yes, I really, really do. I go to great lengths to talk to the butcher in my town about their practices. They are closed on Wednesdays for slaughtering, and I have gone to see how it works. The animals are in good health and they come in from different farmers in the area usually one or two to a trailer. It is not traumatic and I do believe that the farmers have a sort of an attachement to their animals.

There is a buffalo farmer in lavalle that I buy from...his biggest problem was getting his wife to stop naming the calfs!

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhilBiker', '
')If so, do you think of these horrible appalling images when you turn the lights on or use your computer or watch TV? I do. :cry:
We certainly do take our toll on this Earth, don't we.


I do think of that as well, my life is very, very small. I do not drive much, I do not eat much I do not get me hair, nails makeup etc done...I do not even HAVE a TV.

I do not preach my way of life to others (unless they engage in a convo like this one) because I know all I can do is control my own choices.

We certainly do take the toll on Earth.
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Re: Just saw a PETA video

Unread postby threadbear » Fri 13 Jan 2006, 17:28:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '
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...what does you and your paradigm offer? (and I'm not interested in bullshit...what do you offer future man?)


well that remains to be seen and once the cheap fuel runs out, we will indeed see.


You're absolutely right...And I predict that your type will be scambling to find someone that can slaughter, perserve, pot, etc., These thing wil equate to survival...but heh, don't want to bother you with that ugly underneath.


Uh....Petro, Sinister blue grew up on a farm and has slaughtered animals herself. Her point, like mine and a few others on the thread is to promote quality of life, eschew torture and respect dignity of fellow beings AND in so doing, herself. Your kneejerk attempts to create a fluffy bleeding heart softie cartoon out of a such a person as Sinsiter Blue are more revealing of you than her.
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