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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    edited May 2020
    Hostafan1 said:
    If everyone became vegan tomorrow,the following day billions of cows, pigs , sheep , goats , chickens etc etc would be slaughtered.
    Reading between the lines, I suspect he was pissed off about his lost income more than bats in a market in China

    This is a stupid argument.  Most animals (for meat) are raised to slaughter in a very tight time frame.  Pigs say, will never live out their natural life span.  In all but a few years you could wind down animal farming, and switch over.  Rather than killing everything for no good reason over night.

    We have pig ebola in Asia right now, a horrific genocide of animals, numbers that are totally unfathomable.  All part and parcel of a bad farming system.

  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    Yviestevie said:
    Oh and I love Bryan Adams so leave him alone <3

    My personal experience of Bryan Adams is that despite being a 'soft rock legend' he finds time and money for good causes when it comes to the natural world.  A total gent in that regard.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They are not ' meat'. They are sentient beings. How is slaughter in an abattoir different to the genocide you speak of apart from the profit to the farmer?
    I am happy to eat meat, but I want to know that it has led a reasonably comfortable life and has been killed humanely
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    As far as I am aware, we don't eat Alpacas.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    punkdoc said:
    As far as I am aware, we don't eat Alpacas.

    Maybe not in this country - yet.  But my friends in Bolivia tell me that llamas are an everyday item of human diet.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I'm feeling curmudgeonly because I still haven't found my Fiskars garden scissors which I mislaid a few weeks ago.  And today I failed to locate the old net curtains I use every summer to protect the ripening cherries from the birds.  Even though they look like peas at present, I've already caught a pigeon nibbling at them.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    As well as guinea pigs  :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Guinea pigs nibbling cherries? Has someone been at the absinthe?
    Rutland, England
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    BenCotto said:
    Guinea pigs nibbling cherries? Has someone been at the absinthe?

    I thought he meant pigeons nibbling guinea pigs.  I think I'll go back to bed.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I knew an old woman who swallowed a guinea pig, I don't know why she swallowed a guinea pig.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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