Apologies to Cin------

ABATTOIR

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 10, 2001

Answers

Fuck cin. Do you have any idea how many carrots that bitch has killed?

-- (vegetables are @ living. creatures), April 10, 2001.

This is the main reason for Mad Cow disease. They get real awnry when you start skinnen them alive!

-- Boswell (cjseed@webtv.net), April 10, 2001.

Thanks Lars for the warning. I'm not going there.

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 10, 2001.

There was a documentary on PBS in the 80s simply called Meat. There was no narration. It was just a two film of the slaughterhouse "experience" starting with the animals in the holding pens and the commodity traders on the telephones. Ultimately every operation in the industrialized manufacture of meat was shown, again without comment. It was very powerful.

But yes, I still eat meat. Not alot, but more than a little.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 10, 2001.

As the Native Americans (who made pacts with animal spirits to absolve them of their karma) knew, there is but one Life-Energy that flows in the consiousness of every living thing. Ill will afforded to animals must be re-experienced by way of reincarnation, until eventually all ill will is released.

-- oYo (@@...), April 10, 2001.

oYo: That's a good point. I have a friend who has three children. They're dirt poor by most standards [by choice], having left the big city to transplant themselves into an environment where the kids have fewer allergic reactions. There's only one breadwinner [dad], and the market isn't great for jobs where they live. The mom [my friend] home-schools due to the allergies.

Anyway, they purchased a cow [a whole one] and had it slaughtered to feed the family. My friend spent WEEKS processing everything that cow had to offer. The stuff most folks [or packing plants] would throw away she made into SOMETHING.

The kids had seen the cow when it was alive, so they had a hard time there for a while eating it. She introduced kindof a "blessing" before each meal, wherein everyone thanked the cow for the nourishment it provided. The American Indians didn't demonstrate guilt over killing the animals on which their lives depended. They more like "merged" the animal's spirit with their own, again thanking the animal for the "offering."

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 11, 2001.