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10-26-2011, 01:31 AM
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I have no problem with killing animals for food (we did originate from hunter-gatherer groups, after all). The problem is the absolute amount of waste and cruelty in the modern, mass-production meat industry. If you want proof of this just go watch videos like Food Inc or Meet Your Meat. Not to mention how we are overfishing and depleting the oceans for fish. We, as a species, need to either increase the efficiency of use of the animals we kill (just like our ancestors), or eat less meat altogether (which, animal welfare aside, and given the environmental load of meat production, is probably the ideal option). Preferably we can do both of these.
 As for fur apparel, nothing can justify killing an animal for fur alone, IMO. It's completely unnatural, no animal kills another animal just for it's pelt. The only way fur farming can be justified, IMO, is if the rest of the animal is put to use, just as tribes use every bit of the animals they kill. The emotional disconnect from our food also plays a major role in this. We need to somehow put the sacredness back into the animals we kill and the food we get from them, as our ancestors have. We will never truly be able to find harmony with nature again until we put the emotional and holistic value back into it.
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