Quote Originally Posted by Sharla
In a way I feel like a hipocrit for saying I'd find it hard to do because I grew up in a farming family. Still when it came to controlling number of rabbits (huge problem in Australia) my brothers and their dogs and ferrets did it and not in a way which had them dying slowly. I wasn't ever expected to kill anything - just do other basic animal feeding and upkeep chores.

I don't remember us ever killing our own pigs or cows - for our own food we sent them to the local butcher to kill and prepare them and gave him an animal for his own as payment. Animals which were sold for profit were shipped off alive in trucks to be either sold to other farmers for breeding (or wool in the case of sheep) or to the abattoir where I imagine they have skilled fast and hopefully hygienic workers.
...that is population control and it has to be done because they would basically eat all the food for the other animals and the RABBITS could bring extinction on some other species.

I'm not vegan or anything, I eat meat, I hunt and fish and it's different when you kill for a purpose as opposed to watching carnage for fun....that is a HUGE difference to me.


I can't believe Stephon Marberry and Roy Jones Jr. are basically crying about what Michael Vick GOT HIMSELF INTO...Yes Vick is a gifted athlete but you know if he breaks the law his athletism doesn't mean anything. And Marberry said people shoot deer for fun.....well MAYBE that happens in some cases but it doesn't involve the prolonged pain and suffering like drowning and electrocution and hanging....WE DON'T EVEN TREAT MURDERERS LIKE THAT!!!