> However, I don't believe in being cruel to an animal just for cruelty's sake. Kicking a dog, for example, is bad.
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> I don't know why it's OK to do things to certain animals but not to other animals. I dont' know why it's "bad" to eat dog.

Live in Korea, dog is a perfectly acceptable meal there. And while, we're on the subject, you won't get beef in Hindu India. The cow is a sacred animal to Hindus. One mans drink... as they say.

>I don't know why we protect endangered animals - so what if they go extinct? What will honestly happen if we run out of Wild Germanian Tree Tigers or some such?


It is estimated that some 97% of all species that have ever existed on the earth are now extinct. If we lose a part of the ecosystem it will just adapt and evolve and do something else, like it has for the past 4 billion years.


> I also don't understand why some people are so shocked by the concept of veal. So the cow is a year or two younger. Why is eating it so bad?
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> A side note: many people don't eat meat because of the so-called factory farms they grow the animals on. Almost no meat in the country comes from places with awful conditions for animals, because the FDA does not approve places like that, and so they can't sell their meat, and you don't end up buying it.
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> -eric "Has NO PROBLEM with eating dog or veal" sleator
> Fri 11 Aug A.D. 2000