4 N's

[Lord Jim]

No, we aren't...

[wesw]

now that I ve given it more thought, I ve realized that I have felt guilty about it before. one instance came to mind...

I saw a documentary once about the lives of cows in a feed lot out west. the cows had a horrible existence and lived in their own filth for long periods. haunch to haunch , knee deep in shit. I felt guilt and disgust.

I ve picked up eggs in a layer house one summer, they are pretty miserable too, at night the floor is covered in rats. any chicken too weak to get up and perch on the slats is soon taken down. tho I will say that I was not too impressed with the chicken as a specie... not the white factory built ones anyway....

my son has turned out to be a really successful deer hunter, only shotguns in Delaware too...
I feel much better about myself when I m eating the meat that he supplies....

at least the deer got to live wild and free for a while

[Joe Guy]

[Gob]

Outrage on social media over an annual dog-eating festival in China has been growing every year - and this year it's trended across the world. Will the anger eventually end the practice of eating dog meat in China?



Each year during summer solstice, it's thought that 10,000 dogs are cooked and eaten in Yulin, in Guangxi province in southern China, as part of the city's yearly dog meat festival. Although it's not illegal to eat dog meat in China, opinion is divided on how deep the "tradition" really runs. On Chinese social media in recent years, the Yulin Festival has become a focus for the large numbers of animal lovers - mostly within China - who are against it.

But this year, the reaction has gone global. Since May, almost a quarter of a million tweets have been posted using the hashtag #StopYulin2015, with most of the activity coming from the UK, the US and Australia. One of the loudest voices has been the US animal welfare group Duo Duo, whose change.org petition calling for the cancellation of the event has received more than 200,000 signatures. The group's campaign video on YouTube has been viewed more than 130,000 times.

[MajGenl.Meade]

"So they asked me, innit? Was I ready for some chow? Next thing I knew..."

[Lord Jim]

The two posters following who agreed with me?

BTW, to be accurate, there were three of us:

I'd go with our resident expert in nothing on this one.

Sad to say, so would I....

Me too....

But then, math was never your strong suit...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I eat meat. I like to eat meat. It's very tasty.
I eat meat I bought in the store and meat I have killed myself.
I have no need for rationalization.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I think perhaps yours didn't count, LJ. It was the combination with the insulting caricature, at a guess