[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

So if given the choice, would you rather be slaughtered and eaten or hunted and hung on someone's wall? My opinion on this dilemma being that "it doesn't really matter, either way I'd be dead, and dead things don't have preferences".

In other words, it's no worse for the lion to be hung on someone's wall than it is for the cow to be in someone's belly. So why do we make the distinction? We make it for us. Because on some level we consider a Lion to be "worth more" than a cow. When people say how awful it is that an animal species could become extinct, they don't mean that it's awful for that species or any member of that species (as for any individual animal, the extinction of their species is no more or less awful than their own death as an individual)... No... When people say that, they mean that it's awful for "us", because we will have fewer pretty / majestic / wondrous things to ogle in "our" world.

I don't like that we kill anything but at least we could do it humanely we don't have to cause them so much pain and terror before they die,just to give us our jollies,the slaughter of farm animals is SUPPOSED to adhere to strict rules and we have to trust in other humans to follow that(although we know it doesn't always happen as humans cant be trusted,as for wild life ,why cant humans just keep their greedy,vile mitts to themselves and let things be instead of disguising a barbaric trade as sport,the elephant trade in ivory is abhorrent too as is most killing of animals,we are supposed to know better.