Thinking about what Western society accepts and what it doesn’t. My train of thought led me on to the issue of meat. We eat cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbit, fish, turkeys and the more controversial horses. Some countries such as China eat cats and dogs. Yet to the majority of Western civilisation this is barbaric! We cannot eat meat like that of our pets. Yet cats and dogs were wild animals before we broke them into house pets. Caged them to the confines of our homes and fresh air only when we can be bothered to walk them or let them out to play. Don’t get me wrong, I love cats and dogs and they could not survive in the wild now that we have modified them and our world so much. It just saddens me that the human superiority complex seems to be at the detriment of anyone and everything that is deemed a lesser being than themselves.
Interestingly the word barbaric is Greek, originally meaning anyone who doesn’t speak Greek. It’s fascinating how civilisation changes words over time to fit the Western needs!
Interestingly the word barbaric is Greek, originally meaning anyone who doesn’t speak Greek. It’s fascinating how civilisation changes words over time to fit the Western needs!
Go to http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/213036_pets22.html for an remarkable view about a bill that would ban the slaughter of cats and dogs for food.
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We are the top of the food chain. We kill animals to survive, and meat is one source of food. Some people become vegetarian because they don’t agree in killing animals and eating them. But meat gives us protein, which we need as nourishment. But I do not agree in killing household pets and eating them! That is unacceptable. Farmers breed animals so they can be killed and we can eat them. Pets are there as pets, and not food!
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