In Holland they do use the euthanised pets - in pet food. I don't have an emotional problem with it, apart from the fact that cannibalism has led to CJD in the past. I'm no expert! Maybe that happened because the animals in question, cows, were supposed to be vegetarian. But I'm pretty sure I heard something about human cannibals getting a CJD-like illness and we're omnivorous! Well, I'm not, heheheh.
I've always thought (and I've said it on here before) that being sentimenatal about eating cats, which I dislike, and dogs, which I love, is ridiculous. However I'm not imune to pointless sentimentalism and I consider eating whales to be barbaric. I suppoaw it's because I consider cats and dogs to be somewhat similar to cows and pigs, whereas I find whales sort of "magical". I hate when I'm reminded of my hypocrisy and double standards!
Yes, I have that problem too: of being reminded of my hypocrisy. Because I'm not a vegetarian, simply because I like meat. I do believe that vegans are "better" or "more evolved" because they don't. That is, if I can make an argument for not eating one kind of animal (pets, or beautiful looking creatures) while it being okay to eat others (ones we find ugly, or raise just for food), then I'm being a hypocrite. And the vegans are right: "don't eat anything with a face." Because once we decide it's not okay to eat one four-legged animal, then any arguments for eating others is inane.
I salve my conscience by eating only meat from a local farm that raises and slaughters them humanely, rather than any meat from our industrialized "factory" farm methods. At least they are not being beaten and terrorized.
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I've always thought (and I've said it on here before) that being sentimenatal about eating cats, which I dislike, and dogs, which I love, is ridiculous. However I'm not imune to pointless sentimentalism and I consider eating whales to be barbaric. I suppoaw it's because I consider cats and dogs to be somewhat similar to cows and pigs, whereas I find whales sort of "magical". I hate when I'm reminded of my hypocrisy and double standards!
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I salve my conscience by eating only meat from a local farm that raises and slaughters them humanely, rather than any meat from our industrialized "factory" farm methods. At least they are not being beaten and terrorized.