Quote Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD
We use live fish as bait. We raise live animals in some pretty atrocious conditions for food. We do a lot of messed up things to animals. We get pissed off when dolphins get caught in drift nets, yet don't much care for the tuna.

What determines what animals shouldn't suffer and which ones we're willing to put through some pretty rough shit for our own convenience? Lotta cows live pretty miserable lives before slaughtered, but because they're nothing but food to us no one really much cares.

Hamilton_Steele doesn't take issue with hunting, so has no problem blowing a bird outta the sky for sport. (I hunt too, so am just using that as an example).

What makes dogs and cats so special? That they're pets to us here in the West? Other parts of the world don't share that perception.

And so us using our own cultural viewpoints to condemn other cultures for what they do that we do not approve of is, I feel, prejudiced and ethnocentric.

I definitely see your point. But there's a difference in slaughtering a cow quickly for meat and hooking a hook through its snout and dragging it through water so a shark can eat it.

My problem is not so much in the killing of animals for food but in the way they might be treated, abused, tortured and or harmed in the process.

If you're going to do it, then just do it. But do not torture them beyond pain for the sheer sport of it. That it what is absolutely atrocious. And trust me, if I was anywhere near that and I had a gun, I'd fuckin' shoot the humans just to make a point. Inflicting unnecessary pain and suffering on any creature--fluffy and cuddly or not--is absolutely unacceptable to me, and it infuriates me to no end. There is no acceptable excuse for it, plain and simple.