Does the Vegetarian Trait affect anything besides food choices?
Zazazu:
Quote from: geekgirl on 2009 July 05, 17:22:38
Uhhh....
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See, this doesn't bother me. Seven of my cousins grew up on a farm/ranch and I visited them a few times when I was little. I saw chickens and pigs get killed for supper. I still ate them. When you are running a moderate farm, though, you're mostly killing for your own supper, plus perhaps providing a bit to a butcher for cash. You're not killing thousands of animals a day via the most automated method possible, which often is not quick.
I saw this special on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel about race horses and how they are sent to slaughter. It still haunts my dreams. There was nothing quick about it. It was horribly cruel. Stringing something up alive after beating it into submission by shooting it somewhere approximately in the region of the skull, over and over, with a machine until you finally hit the right spot...nothing deserves to spend its last few minutes that way. I don't care if they are slated for a table. I don't care if they have the brain the size of a pine nut. You don't treat anything that way.
geekgirl:
O.o I can't imagine that would be very cost effective. Bullets are, what, a buck apiece?
Drakron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse#Process
Aquilegia:
Quote from: geekgirl on 2009 July 05, 17:22:38
You know how easy they are to kill? Bowl of grain, walk up behind them with a gun, shoot them in the skull.
Well, yeah, that would fall into the 'lulled into a false sense of security and never saw it coming' bit, wouldn't it? It'd be quite a lot harder if they were fighting at the time, which is why people do that--beats the hell out of ending up with casualties when you're trying to get your dinner.
Silverdrake:
Speaking of carnivorous fish, here's some food for thought:
EPA Guidelines on Mercury in Fish
World's Fish Supply will run out by 2048
I know people at the USCG and NOAA, so this isn't hyperbole.
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