Apr 18, 2012 -- 12:33AM, mountain_man wrote:

Apr 17, 2012 -- 10:52PM, solfeggio wrote:

I agree with you, Christine.  To make jokes about the very real terror that a cow must feel knowing she is about to have her throat slit is not just disgusting but nauseating.....

No, what is nauseating are the highly emotional, and blatantly false, claims like the one above. Most slaughter houses do not slit the throat to kill the animal. They use a pneumatic captive bolt gun" that stuns the animal. The animal has no idea, nor is capable of the concept, of what is about to happen. So, leave out the supercilious and emotional arguments. They just make you look bad and, as you can see, do nothing to further your cause.

MM, you are misinformed.  All animals know death is imminent when they hear shrieks of pain, and smell blood and fear.  Her claims are not false.  

You can't come up with information that refutes what is being said by animal rights activists because there is none.  

If you have a problem with emotions just admit it to yourself rather than finding something wrong with somebody else who allows emotions to inform them.  

"The animal has no idea, nor is capable of the concept, of what is about to happen."  WRONG!    Telling a person their "supercilious emotional responses make them look bad..."  WRONG!  

For readers who are really interested in learning about the brain and emotions of animals, here is an article by Temple Grandin.  

www.grandin.com/inc/animals.make.us.huma...

I don't think we actually KNOW what that Cow was "thinking" when (s)he ran away ...

Apr 18, 2012 -- 1:32AM, solfeggio wrote:

Say what you will to try to defend the practise of cow-killing, but the fact is that the cow ran away because she was scared.  And she was scared because, unlike humans, she has senses that told her others before her were being killed.

As far as bolt guns and other methods of 'stunning' are concerned, they don't always work, and there have been many reported instances in which animals were not dead when they had their throats slit or their stomachs cut open, or even when their hides were being torn off.

Raising animals for food is a barbaric practise, and the fact that so many people have no problems with it shows just how brutal and savagely cruel the average person is today. 

www.komonews.com/news/national/Forest-Se... Articles like this spread the idea that animals are stupid.  People freeze in their vehicles out in remote areas by being trapped by snow storms and freeze in their homes without adequate heat.  People are no more or less stupid than these animals, just unfortunate in getting trapped by a snow storm.  

They talk about not wanting to contaminate the ground water and then talk about blowing them up.  Sounds like a way to keep busy and therefore employed to me.  Wild animals would take care of the carcass problem.  

Apr 18, 2012 -- 9:06AM, christine3 wrote:

MM, you are misinformed. ...

Yes, I am misinformed on the propaganda you are pumping out. I am informed on the facts, facts you seem to ignore.

Apr 18, 2012 -- 11:22AM, mountain_man wrote:

The cow ran away because it could. It only knew it did not want to be where it was. It had no idea why.

I heard the same thing when I was growing up.  Indoctrination.  Why didn't you get over it?