Long rant... I love this campaign in response. I am a vegetarian because I believe in sustainability. There is nothing sustainable or environmentally friendly about walking into a supermarket and buying beef which was raised in Colorado, sent to Ohio to be slaughtered and then shipped in plastic to my supermarket in Philly. The Inuits killing seals do so in order to stay alive. They do it without wasting most parts of the animal, without factory farming, without shipping the meat across the country in order to eat it for dinner. This is EXACTLY the type hunting I think we should encourage. Its very elitist to say that its inhumane or barbaric to kill animals. Its inhumane and barbaric to use animals the way we do in industrialized society. Tibetan Buddhists, for example, encourage their followers to not eat meat when unnecessary but vegetarianism is not part of the religion. Why? because the Tibetan terrain does not allow for enough vegetables to grow and can not sustain a population on plants alone. They need meat in order to get enough nutrients and calories. I think its great if people are vegetarians because they have enough money to do so and are anyway completely disconnected from the hunting process, which is so much more respectful to environment and animals. There is a difference between eating meat from the supermarket because you feel like and eating meat you have hunted (or using it in other ways) as a part of sustaining life. Last point…it is very “us- cultured people” against “them- uncultured” to simply declare all hunting wrong.Its another way which liberal, wealthy populations oppress the populations they often try to help. We needless sympathy and more empathy and cultural understanding.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:14:08 +0000
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