Vegetarian moral code misled (From the College Front - Hilarious)

The Daily Campus (U. Connecticut) ^ | 12/2/04 | Josh Levinson

[RobRoy]

>>There's nothing un-Christian about treating other living creatures humanely.<<

With that I agree. Would you say the reverse is also true? And how do you define "humanely" as it applies to animals? Every single example in the Bible of how humans should treat animals is actually a lesson or analogy of how humans should treat other humans. The Bible is extremely silent on how we should treat animals, other than on how we should treat ANY natural resource.

[priceofreedom]

Just made reservations for Morton's Steakhouse before going to the Staples Center to watch the Lakers tonight.
mmmmmm mmmmmm

[Beckwith]

There are fruitarian groups that claim to eat only fruits and trimmings and therefore never kill any animal or plant.

I can't imagine how someone could survive indefinitely on such a diet.

They must spend a lot of time in the loo.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

With that I agree. Would you say the reverse is also true?

If you're asking whether animals should treat people humanely, then that answers itself. Humans are supposed to be more enlightened than animals, and should kill them in the quickest manner possible and in a manner that promotes the least amount of suffering. Bullfights wouldn't qualify as 'enlightened'.

And how do you define "humanely" as it applies to animals?

See above,

Every single example in the Bible of how humans should treat animals is actually a lesson or analogy of how humans should treat other humans. The Bible is extremely silent on how we should treat animals, other than on how we should treat ANY natural resource.

The bible is silent on a lot of issues. Rocks and dirt are natural resources too, but there is a distinction between resources that feel pain and resources that don't.

[mrs. a]

Time for me to tuck into a big ol' plate of Soylent Green...

[gg188]

What's to say that a plant cannot feel pain? Is it fair to say that wheat doesn't suffer simply because it cannot scream? Is it correct to claim that an ear of corn is not quietly suffering a painful, indignant death as we cut it apart and shuck it?

Exactly what I have always wondered...

The line between the animal and plant kingdoms is an arbitrary one.

[dangus]

"nightly serenades of "Sweet Child O' Mine"

Guns'n'Roses lullabies? That is inhuman!

[dangus]

You do not kill a brocolli plant to eat the stalks, nor do you kill a wheat plant to eat its grain. If these idiots are really shunning vegetables and grain in favor of fruts, they are truly idiots.

[dangus]

>> And exactly what is a trimming?<<

TORTURE! Let the poor plant dies in peace, but no, these sickos tear the flesh from their bodies, particularly delighting in ripping off their sex organs, and then leave the plant to suffer slowly.

[wideawake]

nor do you kill a wheat plant to eat its grain

They would argue that wheat is typically plowed under and then resown after the harvest.

[RobRoy]

>>The bible is silent on a lot of issues. Rocks and dirt are natural resources too, but there is a distinction between resources that feel pain and resources that don't.<<

How do you know that animals "feel pain?" How developed must your nervous system and cpu be to interpret stimulus as "pain?"

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

How do you know that animals "feel pain?"

If you don't know the answer to this, then I can't help you. Maybe there is someone out there who can.