I have posted a few different sources of information on the above topics. Please read through the BBC page on ethical considerations for animal rights. There are a lot of choices to choose from. Also, view the videos and think about the postings together. Gather up some ideas or simply write out a response to viewing this information. Please make sure your posting is at least a paragraph or two long.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbEHP3RzUE&feature=PlayList&p=B1303796BB470740&index=0&playnext=1
If the link above does not work, go to youtube and type in "Animal Rights" and watch "Farm Animals and Us." Please watch parts one through three.
Responses due by Wednesday, April 3rd at 5pm
Micaela
After viewing the YouTube video. My opinion stays the same. It's the individual's choice, not all animals are as cruel treated, and who gives a shit. I've lived on a ranch most of my entire life. I've seen death more times than most kids my age do… Cows are raised for a specific reason as well as all other farm animals. Things are different here in MT than in other parts of the world. As a horse rancher, we raised horses for pack stock and pleasure riding. When the horse died, we simply took the tractor, lifted the horse up and onto flatbed trailer and took him to the stockyards for them to make their dog food. Once an animal is dead, it is gone. Simple as that. Most ranchers around the area all believe that one must take care of their animals. The animals are the members of the family, their livelihoods, and for some…their reason to live. Most ranchers know their limits on animal numbers to their ability to care for the animals. We're also the same ones w/shot guns in hands in a lynch mob when some idiot kills one of our horses. To some, a dog or a cat is pet…to others, a pig, a chicken, or say a horse are the closest thing as a friend to the person. To say that only cats and dogs get treated w/respect is bulshit. I know a woman who is the most materialistic preppy "California-plastic" bitch I know, but she also has grown up raising and loves pigs.
ReplyDeleteAs for the meat production probs. If the damn market demanded it and the producer had the hearts that most round here do, the production ways would change. But like everything, there are substitutes. I use eggs from the chickens and ducks on my ranch, but I don't butcher them. And during the hunting season, I use my horses and mules in the backcountry, the breaks, or the eastern MT badlands to help harvest big game. In my family, we eat probably more elk, deer, antelope, and an occasional bighorn sheep, mntn goat, or moose than beef, pork, or chicken. For my family, it's the better way to go as well as for most of my friend's families. One friend's family eats everything from the elk including cooked hearts, livers, tongues and so on. A lot of people around here also like Montana Oysters…something I'm not honestly quite fond of.