If dog fighting is sooo bad (that you can go to jail for it)...

How many ranchers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer two: One to turn the ladder while the other is holding the light bulb.

 

It would never happen like that. The rancher would have no need for the bulb since he denied the REA access on his property to put in the powerlines. Kerosene/coal-oil all the way, so rustic and dependable...

 

Oh yeah, what do they do when the cows are calfing?

 

PULLLLLLL....

 

I must have missed your post when you asked if I would rather have intelligence over brute strength but now I have read it and must respond.
It depends on the situation but I mentioned a ring and that is a small enclosed area. In that case I would prefer brute strength.

To give the chimp the benifit of the doubt, he would probably run around the ring screaming. But he could probably outrun the gorilla.

 

I've been away from the site for over a week, but I just saw this...

Cloud, you are so dead wrong. If the options are mass slaughter (BILLIONS of animals are murdered every year for human consumption/gluttony) vs. letting them live in peace and then slowly go extinct, I will def. choose the latter. Otherwise, you're just advocating cruelty.

We don't need animal products to survive, and we are much healthier without them, end of story.

 

agreed, how was Costa Rica
?

 

Jhonn, then you are just supporting the extinction of species from the planet. You don't even deserve to be called an earthling.

 

Maybe we shouldn't have domesticated them in the first place, huh? Animals go extinct, that's the truth. Extinction is better than systematic and heartless mass slaughter in my books. Sorry if you don't agree. Guess I'm not a true Earthling.

Costa Rica was a blast. And there were plenty of vegan options at the hotel, believe it or not. Luckily my wife speaks Spanish and was able to ask about lard in the food and things like that.

 

I have 2 buddys who bought property there (with a waterfall!) pretty cheap. They live in the States for rainy season, and they are a little concerned about squaters when they get back. They say that the fruit drinks there are amazing.

 

yeah, we did nothing and look what happened to the dinosaurs!
Imagine, they'd still be here if we could have eaten them.

 

Yeah, a lot of Americans are moving there. One of the snorkeling tours we did was run by a guy and his wife who had finally moved there from Minnesota after a lot of back-and-forth travel.

Plenty of fresh fruit. I was content, to say the least.

 

The point I was trying to make with the failed humor is that every animal ends up being food for something. There is nothing immoral about using animals for food, and it's a bit absurd to try to find a way to eat them that is somehow respectful. It's just the way the universe is constructed. Complain to the builder if you don't like the construction. If someone is truly concerned about the sanctity of all life in all its forms, they would not give preferential treatment to animals over plants in their eating habits. In that case, the only correct thing to do would be to voluntarily starve to death.

 

I don't believe in a god, and I don't believe in your pre-defined sense of morality. This is my morality. Animals feel pain, I don't need animal products to survive, and thus I don't bother putting decaying, rotting corpses in my body. Da Vinci and Einstein would agree with me. To me, you're just avoiding the inherent cruelty in factory farming by stating that "all animals are food for other animals."

Obviously, you're going to do what you want, and vegans/vegetarians are in the minority, but I'd like to think that people will one day move past all this senseless slaughter and embrace a peaceful diet.

 

The thing is that they think it hard. They bought that lie that it is hard to be a vegan.

 

My wife and I don't even think twice about NOT eating vegan at this point. It's super easy, IMO.

 

Not necessarily hard. Just pointlessly restrictive. Humans are naturally omnivorous. But I guess for some it fills a morality void of some sort. For others, they think it's healthier. Everyone can choose to do what they want, as long as they don't try to impose their views on others.

 

I know what you said, but this is what I heard. That is the way it goes!

 

Too bad look at USA media, like CNN and see only this news. Not how many soldiers died by Iraq today, not how many people died in road accidents, or by alcohol drink. Not starving people of Darfur, or murderous regime in Myanmar.

Between dog fites and Linsay Lohan, Brintey Spears no wonder America misplace of priorities get soldiers killed in Iraq while all this "important" stuff happen.

 

Kras, you're country gave away the chance for personal liberty. Life expectancy is dropping. You blew your chance, so the envy is natural I suppose. I don't think anyone would trade our nation's problems for yours. Ours will be fixed in time. Your's are perpetual.