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I agree with you. Have you ever seen a cat playing with a mouse? It torments it before it kills it. Humans are not the only animal capable of cruelty or love. Dogs and cats that go wild will hunt for food as would we if we could not buy it in shops. I do not think it is a cruel world as such. It is simply the way we are. People care about animals and that is why they want humane killing. When humans were hunters and gatherers they risked their lives to hunt for food. Now it is all domesticated and most of us can buy meat without having anything to do with the killing or the butchering. Perhaps that is part of the problem. We have become too removed from our food sources and many people have no idea of our relationship to the food we eat.

dear faith...yes, people do ingest the toxins in their bodies when they eat meat and also all the growth hormones that the animals were given to fatten them up for slaughter..have a great week faith, talk to ya later...stanzi

I agree with you. Humans have always been hunters. I used to be against hunting because I saw the danger of extinction if too many were taken and the herds were not allowed to grow. These days my attitude has changed. I have read much and learned that many of my ideas were wrong. I think life was much simpler when we lived off the land rather than the way we live now. We used every part of an animal for food, clothing, utensils etc. I think all killing should be humane. If a person was no longer in modern society and had to live off the land to survive he or she would learn that meat was the best source of food they could find supplemented by gathering grains and plants etc. Before we tamed animals we used to eat horses for food. Then someone discovered how useful horses and wolves could be as companions and we made bred them into what they are today. The same is true of all the animals we eat. We domesticated them enabling us to settled down rather than live as hunters and gatherers. I do not understand how anyone can say that we only eat meat because the meat industry tells us to, we have always killed animals for food and so have the dogs we bred from wolves.

dear raychill...but how do you feel about the terrible cruelty in the meat industry slaughterhouses, how can you promote this by buying their product at the store?

I feel the same way people who smoke feel when they're killing everyone around them with second hand smoke. I feel the same way people who buy foreign items from Japan who excessively overwork their employees feel. I feel the same way that people who go to stores in which their employees are treated like crap feel. In other words. I don't feel that by someone buying food to eat, to survive, to enjoy... is promoting animal cruelty. Saying "I ONLY LOVE TO BUY PORK FROM PLACES WHO TORTURE THEIR BIGS BEFORE KILLING THEM" is promoting... buying it... not so much.