“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.” — Count Leo Tolstoy
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."- Albert Einstein
Whether or not wild pigs are overabundant and destructive to the environment, I don't know, though I've read that. A few years ago we saw that the extremely civilized, educated, urbane Bay Area professor Michael Pollan wrote a book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma," telling the story about how he prepared a complete multi-course meal in which all the ingredients were made or grown or retrieved by himself. He interpreted "omnivore" (quite without need) to mean in part "carnivore," and decided to learn how to hunt a little, and to go after a wild pig, judging them to be the wild animals who are most expendable. I don't know; it seems to me he made a few bad ethical decisions there, even if in principle he's right that the North American environment can do without the presence of those pigs.
Anyway, in Bandera, Texas, those people don't need any excuses for being mean to those pigs. They're just bullies who love showing off how they can inflict pain and terror on sentient beings much weaker than they are. And then they bully their kids into thinking it's all fun, a lot of laughs. "They know it's wrong but they do it all the same"--that's a definition of hell.
It's too bad the big animal protection agencies didn't make more of this, except for PETA to some extent. And the spray-painted pro-animal message, alas, was not good activism or advocacy.
“Most of the time the hog wins...but not without a lot of action, adventure and tons of laughs, generally from the hog!” Only humans could come up with something as demented as this. I don’t know to say anymore. Lol our species is so fucked.
“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.” — Count Leo Tolstoy
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."- Albert Einstein
Whether or not wild pigs are overabundant and destructive to the environment, I don't know, though I've read that. A few years ago we saw that the extremely civilized, educated, urbane Bay Area professor Michael Pollan wrote a book called "The Omnivore's Dilemma," telling the story about how he prepared a complete multi-course meal in which all the ingredients were made or grown or retrieved by himself. He interpreted "omnivore" (quite without need) to mean in part "carnivore," and decided to learn how to hunt a little, and to go after a wild pig, judging them to be the wild animals who are most expendable. I don't know; it seems to me he made a few bad ethical decisions there, even if in principle he's right that the North American environment can do without the presence of those pigs.
Anyway, in Bandera, Texas, those people don't need any excuses for being mean to those pigs. They're just bullies who love showing off how they can inflict pain and terror on sentient beings much weaker than they are. And then they bully their kids into thinking it's all fun, a lot of laughs. "They know it's wrong but they do it all the same"--that's a definition of hell.
It's too bad the big animal protection agencies didn't make more of this, except for PETA to some extent. And the spray-painted pro-animal message, alas, was not good activism or advocacy.
“Most of the time the hog wins...but not without a lot of action, adventure and tons of laughs, generally from the hog!” Only humans could come up with something as demented as this. I don’t know to say anymore. Lol our species is so fucked.