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In article <53495@mimsy.umd.edu> tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
>In article <1992Apr18.050534.2592@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rfa@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Robert F. Alexander) writes:
>>And I suppose you would make every animal on the planet your
>>pet. Excuse me but, this disscussion is about the stupidist
>>damn thing I've encountered in my life. When I see chickens
>>being raised for slaughter...I see fried chicken!!!!  I lose
>>nothing by their death..
>
>     And you lose nothing by the deaths of starving children in Africa.
>Does that mean you shouldn't care about them?

The children starving in Africa are doing so 
mainly because of political causes, and not 
because a lack of food.  If the will of the 
people was to really stop it, then it could 
be stopped.  It really doesnt have much to 
do with chickens being killed or not.


>> I have pets of my own...A dog..a
>>cat...and a cage full of gerbils.. I love them as they are
>>my pets...Raised as pets...treated as petsand cared for with
>>great respect...But chickens raised for slaughter are just
>>that...SUPPER!!! 
>
>     The idea that they were "raised for slaughter" is no excuse. Would
>you eat a dog that had been "raised for slaughter"? Would you eat a 
>human that had been "raised for slaughter"? 

They raise dogs for slaughter all the time in other
countries; are we more "right" then they are just 
because we are different?

As to humans, there *are* some that eat other humans.

>
>     When I realized the similarity between the roast beef on my plate
>and the faithful dog by my feet, I saw that I had only two logical
>choices: become a vegetarian, or stuff Buffy (hey, I didn't name him)
>in the oven.

In that case, your logical ability is pretty 
limited.  

>>If you don't like the way Perdue raises and
>>prepares the birds for market that is one thing..But please
>>get off your soapbox about how we are doing something
>>immoral by eating stupid birds.
>
>     Never claimed that chickens were rocket scientists. But the fact that
>humans are more intelligent than chickens doesn't make it right for
>us to slaughter them. We don't stuff our ovens with less intelligent
>humans, after all.

Again, it depends on where you look I guess.  


Cherry