http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/10219 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:51:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/10219 Our hunter/gatherer ancestors had no choice but to hunt animals, I understand that. I also understand that at the same time, they had a great deal of respect for these animals (if cave paintings and egyptian mythology are any indication) and made good use of meat, pelts, and bones. So then why, why nowadays do we skin foxes and minks alive on fur farms, then leave the corpses to rot? Why do we isolate pigs into factory farms, where they spend two years before an inhumane slaughter? Why, in Spain, are bulls beaten and stabbed in a show of mass entertainment before a public execution? I understand that being speceists, we will never extend the same support to animals which we give to our family and friends, but surely no being, whether a rat or a pig or a dog or a boy, truly deserves the sort of treatment with which we subject animals. Bigthink Fri, 02 May 2008 16:21:37 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/10219/#16324 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/10219 We are essentially tribal hunter gatherers. We have developed altruism from the gene survival benefits of supporting the family and tribe. Why should we extend it to other species? Bigthink Thu, 01 May 2008 15:13:36 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/truth-justice/10219/#16207