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spayced

    • 30 Mar 06
    • 12:38 am

    http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060329-095254-4737r

    Posted to Cancer in a Can
    • 30 Mar 06
    • 1:11 am

    "(1) ignores the moral issue of exploiting animals for our purposes" The bible says its okay to farm animals. Good enough for me! "(2) pays slight attention to the shamefully cruel nature of the business of raising non-human animals for consumption (or entertainment, clothing, experimentation, and so on)," This is also a stupid hippy statement. How do you begin to assume whether the pig enjoys standing in pig crap or not? Maybe he does, you don't know, because he didn't tell you. My friends do shamefully cruel things all the time to entertain themselves. "(3) ignores the health effects on humans …

    Posted to Meat-Industrial Complex
    • 03 Apr 06
    • 7:53 pm

    RE: nyvegan mar 31 "First, our laws are based on the Constitution" I agree. Please point me to where the constitution refers to animals as anything other than property. I agree with your lengthy post regarding the intelligence of pigs and their ability to feel comfort and pain. However, my point wasn't whether the pig knew he was dirty; he knows he is dirty. We agree on this. The point was whether the pig PREFERS to be dirty or not. Some humans dont care if they are dirty, others can't stand it. I believe you misunderstood one of my statements. My …

    Posted to Meat-Industrial Complex
    • 30 Mar 06
    • 1:31 am

    I buy whatever is the cheapest to get the calories and nutrients I need, whether it be meat or organic.

    Posted to What do you eat?
    • 02 Apr 06
    • 4:06 pm

    When I hear these things It really makes me wonder what opinion is held by the majority of Americans. I wonder how many americans actually fall under "near-militant religious extremism," as one poster put it. To a reader of ITT it's easy to see acceptance in homosexuals as the correct view. If that was the case, it wouldn't be possible for such anti-gay opinions to be elected to office so easily. A survey done in march by the Chicago Tribune shows that "Homosexual behavior also was viewed as immoral by 50 percent, with 12 percent saying that it was morally acceptable, …

    Posted to An Anti-Gay Easter