Quote Originally Posted by Sharla
I eat meat but I fully expect it to be killed humanely. I grew up on a farm and our animals were treated well even if you can't guarantee that when you buy meat.

There's a difference between animals being killed for food humanely and animals painfully slaughtered for fun. Just because it's been done for a long time doesn't make it right. People have been murdering each other for a long time too but if someone killed someone you care about I think you'd be against that.
Don't you think that being killed humanely is something of an oxymoron though, a strange metaphorical healing balm that we use to try and soothe our guilty consciences?

The end result and intent are the same in all cases, we want this animal to die so that we can gain some pleasure from it, be it food, clothing, entertainment or whatever.

I like to imagine if there was a superior species to us that enslaved us would we differentiate between our captives who fed us well and let us exercise to get us in perfect condition for eating and those captives who just threw us all in a skanky cell together and then took us out and shot us one by one?

To be honest I'd find the former more sinister.