The Killing of Animals in its many aspects

[Brigliadore]

Originally posted by godwulf
Most of what I have to work with, when it comes to evaluating how animals seem to feel, is what I experience every day with my own cats.

Having been raised around all sorts of animals all my life I have no question that animals feel love, happiness, pain, etc. Even chickens which I think are relatively low on the intelligence scale have demonstrated loyalty and affection, but thats not the point. I dont think I was asking my question correctly. You asked me "Don't the animal's feelings count for anything?" . I want to know, if the animal is just walking along minding his own business and then Bam is shot and dies instantly, where do his feelings on the matter come into play? This is going to sound heartless but the animal is dead, I don't think he has feelings on the subject at that point.

Like I said, I personally don't think that wild animals should be hunted, but I am not going to tell someone they are wrong if they want to. Thats not my place or my right. Yes I am a hypocrite because I find it distasteful to hunt wild animals but have no problem with domestically raised meat. But I do think there is a big difference. I have seen many slaughter houses, stock yards, dairy's, poultry facilities, etc, some are bad, but the majority are not and having seen where the animals I eat live and where they die I still choose to eat meat. But thats just me.