Re: Animal Liberation Torpedoes Cormo Cooks Tour Mk2

"Rubystars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "David Berkeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> <snip>
> > Well done animal lib ... an eccentric but very creative approach to
> > protest.
> 
> Are you kidding? The sheep will most likely be killed anyway  ...
> 
It's not about whether the sheep are killed ... they were BRED to be
murdered. That was inevitable from the moment they were conceived. It
is shocking. I'd like to stop the industry, but that's a longterm
goal. What is at issue now is how they live BEFORE there lives are
extinguished. Bing euthanased here is far preferable to the slaughter
that would take place in the middle east. And of course, there's the
trauma packing them off in those trucks, and the 1-3 months wading
around in their own faeces and urine, half starved.

> albeit at a loss to the farmers.

That's OK by me. They shouldn't be in the sheep murder and torture
business. Are you equally concerned when someone running a sweatshop
in Bangladesh loses because one of their child slaves drops dead?

They are up to their armpits in the suffering of animals. Their "loss"
is trivial and of no ethical consequence.


> People in the middle east will be going without the food.

What, Saudis will starve if they don't get to slaughter sheep? Will
the meat be going to starving Iraqis?

Personally, I could lose a pound or two and I haven't eaten meat since
1982.


> And what if the pork products had transferred some kind of prion to the
> sheep? Would you have been happy to see people suffering and dying to save a
> herd of sheep?
>

I'm not happy to see any sensate being suffer. That's where you and I
differ. You think the suffering of lower order animals is acceptable,
particularly if humans benefit. I don't. As the animal libbers
publicised their act, there was no chance of it finding its way into
human consumption. And let's not forget that the pork products used
were INTENDED for human consumption.
 
> Animal "liberation" is the dumbest part of the ARA movement.
>

Again, your use of the "" around liberation and your use of the
adjective "dumb" reflects your view that the capacity to speak is the
starting point for rights, and thus your conclusion that animals have
no rights -- not even the right to avoid being imprisoned and
tortured. In 1857, in the famous Dredd Scott case, a racist judge
hearing the case of a black man before him that "the black man has no
rights which the white man is bound to defend".

These days we recognise that for the ethical outrage that it is.
Sadly, that very principle still governs human treatment of animals.

The live sheep trade should be halted immediately, as a minimum
concession to the humane treatment of animals.

BERKO