On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:52:17 +0100, Gluteus Maximus
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:31:32 +1000, "Helen" wrote:

Enjoy your posts

Why thank you. There are many who feel the same about wildlife, we
just get to see a very vocal minority of kooks who brag about killing.

- its good to see posts by people who care for animals - in
particular those creatures who are not the "warm and cuddly" kind- such as
fish, lobsters etc. They rarely get a mention; but have feelings just as
much as the cute animals.


Not to mention the incy wincy spiders and bugs. Why kill and destroy
anything when you don't need to?

Like eating meat, it's something we have all been condition to accept
without thinking, killing slugs, snails, spiders, foxes, deer. All
completely unnecessary as many of us with gardens can testify.

Better for us, the environment and wildlife.

All animals have feelings. Nothing wants to die and why should it.

We should all stand up and be counted.

I don't agree. To attribute human feeling to insensate creatures is
simplistic in the extreme. Your average spider, cockroach, fox, hen or
eland has no feeling whatsoever as to death, the environment, or
wildlife. They just are. These are human concepts.

If I want to eat meat, then I will. It is not a question of
conditioning. I just need a bacon butty every so often. Who
conditioned the lions to eat meat anyway?
John
In limine sapientiae