Tribe wins major step toward resuming whaling off Washington

[Jakes Progress]

96. You are quite uniformed

about things you think you care about. You need to read about sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry.

Sticking is not the most common way used to "harvest" beef. Read Temple Grandin. I do not eat turkey because I cannot find a place where they are humanely treated. My chicken and eggs come from places where the animals are raised and killed humanely. I pay more for them. You need to learn a lot more about your food if you think that just because a carton says "free range" it is raised humanely. It is even more expensive to obtain grass-raised beef that has never seen a feed lot. So I eat less of it. I do prefer beef because one dead cow will supply food that would take many dead chickens. I eat very little meat, but I do make sure that the protein I eat is from humane sources.

Animals are a part of he human diet and always have been. But we have grown past the time of need for gratuitous pain and fear. We don't have to spear and jab and cut and bleed animals. You can grow past that. You just have to care. I noticed that you avoided answering my "simple" questions. You argued that torturing a whale to death was okay because it would be eaten. You did not answer whether barbecuing a dog defeated in a dog ring would make that practice palatable to you. You also ducked the question about the clubbed baby seals. By your argument, the only problem with that practice is that the killers didn't eat the seals. You didn't answer my "simple" questions. Instead you undertook to lecture me on how animals are brought to the table, even though your lecture was virtually fact free. Yes, there are inhumane animal slaughter houses where knuckle dragging morons harm the animals. You can help end those abattoirs if you spent the time and money to support humane sources of protein. As Temple Grandin has said "Nature is cruel. We don't have to be."