intersesting enough, sounds like the typical vegitarian opinion.
allow me to spread my thoughts on some of your thoughts.it is wrong to raise animals in captivity, with the sole intention of selling them for food. this to me is cruel.
however i see hunting as a natural act.
the difference is , hunting illustrates that process of the food chain, and keeps the world in a natural balance. farming animals, does not. it is the over production of one species to support the overpopulation of another. no balance. nothing should be over-done.
also, i'd like to point out that for someone who respects animals as you claim too, you do not give them very much credit. comparing a deer in the woods to a mentally disabled child? have you ever seen a deer run? or freeze , perfectly still? or seen the tiniest ruffle in a thicket in the woods, a football field away, as a sign that the deer caught your scent and your foot steps long before you even suspected her presence? (who did you say was at a disadvantage?)
oh, and then to bring the majestic lion down to equal a blubbering idiot! how could you?
as for the pigs being smarter than dogs, who's to be the judge of that.(i would say that any animal has better sence than a human)
it is not an intelligence factor, it is the fact that pigs have no desire to please thier owners, and therefore do not learn tasks to help serve their owners,ei herding, guarding, carting, "hunting" etc.
working side by side, horses and dogs have developed a bond with people, which in the human mind, separates them from other animals.
and as an irony, in responce to your third world county comment, you failed to observe that these are the countries that actually eat LESS animal products than the rest of the world. which debunks the theory that as we become more advanced, our consumption of meat should deminish.
and finally, you degrade the mighty vegitable. is life based soley on the ability to feel pain? since they do not feel pain, is it okay to dump a gallon of acid into a patch of forrest and kill off the vegitation that lies there? that a plant can die and/or whither under hostile environmental conditions demonstrates that it is a life form capable of responding harmful stimuli. whether or not pain registers in a nervous system, a death occurs when a plant is plucked from the ground.
