Comments on: Eat an animal for PETA day http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/ Internet & Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Penina http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/#comment-2190248 Penina Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:40:23 +0000 /?p=528#comment-2190248 If you really want to tick off the bunny huggers, eat veal and foie gras If you really want to tick off the bunny huggers, eat veal and foie gras

]]> By: Mike http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/#comment-1861006 Mike Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:41:52 +0000 /?p=528#comment-1861006 http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill blah to much hypocrisy http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill

blah to much hypocrisy

]]> By: corri http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/#comment-381763 corri Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:20:05 +0000 /?p=528#comment-381763 haha i love it! haha i love it!

]]> By: Elisa http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/#comment-977 Elisa Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:07:25 +0000 /?p=528#comment-977 We certainly wouldn't eat someone who was in a vegetative state or in end-stage Alzheimers or severely intellectually impaired...so the majority of people actually draw their distinction not related to actual "sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc" but rather the potential of that or historical demonstration of that. So it's a convenient distinction, more than logical. But, I'm sincerely glad you support humane treatment...that is an important goal. We certainly wouldn’t eat someone who was in a vegetative state or in end-stage Alzheimers or severely intellectually impaired…so the majority of people actually draw their distinction not related to actual “sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc” but rather the potential of that or historical demonstration of that. So it’s a convenient distinction, more than logical.

But, I’m sincerely glad you support humane treatment…that is an important goal.

]]> By: Elliott Bäck http://elliottback.com/wp/eat-an-animal-for-peta-day/#comment-975 Elliott Bäck Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:13:53 +0000 /?p=528#comment-975 Interesting idea. I have to, of course, take a slightly different approach, Elisa. In the sense that animals are entities in the same right as humans, I say no. The lines between us and them are distinct for a reason--namely sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc. Obviously this does not apply across the board to all animals, but allow the point, at least for lower animals. Thus, we eat them. However, there is one thing we have in common, and that is a nervous system that reacts to pain and emotion. Animals deserve, at the least, clean deaths and decent living conditions--an aim of PETA that I support. Interesting idea. I have to, of course, take a slightly different approach, Elisa. In the sense that animals are entities in the same right as humans, I say no. The lines between us and them are distinct for a reason–namely sentience, rationality, tool use, abstraction, etc. Obviously this does not apply across the board to all animals, but allow the point, at least for lower animals. Thus, we eat them.

However, there is one thing we have in common, and that is a nervous system that reacts to pain and emotion. Animals deserve, at the least, clean deaths and decent living conditions–an aim of PETA that I support.

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