Asshole wrote:Humanely killing animals for consumption is not selfish.
It always baffles me when meat-eaters talk about 'humanely' killing animals who don't want to die.
What do you mean, humanely? Painlessly? It's not
near painless if you're buying meat from factory farms, but even if it was, it's absurd to call it humane.
You can't humanely steal the lives of those who don't want to die.
Amazing how you'll condemn suicidal people as selfish merely for
considering taking their
own lives, and meanwhile you're taking the lives of
others who
want to live.
Asshole wrote:Raising animals for consumption is not torture.
http://www.peta.org/videos/meet-your-meat/
Asshole wrote:The animals know no other way of life, so how would they know what they are missing?
Typical absurd meat-eater arguments...
That's just as ridiculous as, "Slaves don't know freedom, so who gives a shit?"
They don't need to 'know what they're missing'. That's completely irrelevant.
Asshole wrote:They depend on the farmer to provide feed and shelter
You say this like the farmers are generous or something. That's like saying, "Your parents might beat you everyday, but they provide you with food and shelter, so don't complain."
The farmers aren't giving the animals food and shelter out of the goodness of their hearts. They're doing it to make money.
Also, the animals don't need 'shelter'. Cows would be perfectly fine outside.
And they can just graze on grass. The farmers aren't doing anything special by giving them food.
Asshole wrote:Which in turn, they provide for us at the end of their life.
Provide for you? They're not 'providing' for you at the 'end of their lives' (really?); you're prematurely stealing their lives, literally
killing them, against their wills.
Asshole wrote:Torture would be to take a creature that was once free, then pin it up and abuse it. That is not the case. The animals are born into the care of the farmer, which offers medicine, food, shelter.
The
care of the farmer?
Yeah, they really care for those animals...
http://www.peta.org/videos/factory-farm ... onds-flat/
It doesn't matter if an animal was once free or not. Torturing an animal that animal's entire life doesn't justify it. That's absurd.
Asshole wrote:And thanks for referring to me as "Asshole"
I now understand the maturity and mentality of who I'm dealing with.
Makes sense to me why you are so stubborn.

What?
You're saying that I'm immature because I called you an asshole, after you called me a coward because I disagreed with you about a point, and after you called all suicidal people cowards?
So it's ok when you call other people nasty things on no logical basis, but when other people do it to you as a result, those people are immature?
Also:
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem