No More Cruel Than Domestication

Imagine being a whale. You are born in the open ocean. Your home is as vast as the sea itself. You travel where you want ,when you want to.  You find your meals every day. You are with your family and your survival mostly depends on them and yourself.  You are free. However there is a small chance that sometime later in life you will be hunted, chased down by a ship and stabbed with a harpoon. And there is also a chance your death may not be quick. 

Now imagine being a sheep. You are born in a house with shit under your feet.  You are poked and proded and if you are a boy you are most likley to have your vas deferens crushed. (In the most humane way, of course.) Food is brought to you when someone feels like bringing it.  It is crowded and doesn't smell pleasant.  For a few months you are allowed to roam outside until you are forced marched to a corral where you will be separated from your family, starved, crammed into a truck and let into another building where you will be killed- quickly.

Now which do you think is more inhumane?

GTB

Gegn hvalveiðum

Athugasemdir

[Gregg Thomas Batson, 16.2.2009 kl. 08:07]

Well,  then how does it work then? Sure if the sheep are own by a decent farmer they will most likely be fed at the same times throughout the winter.  But if that farmer is on vacation in the Canary Islands and he is depending on someone else who spent the weekend partying then the hay might not be there when the sheep expect it.  In other words the meals of the sheep are controlled not by themselves but by someone else and that was the point I was making.

GTB

[Steinunn (IP-tala skráð) 16.2.2009 kl. 12:54]

Yeah! let them know that you know how things work on the farm can't you get a job on a whaleboat, you should check that out...LOL

[Sigurður Þór Magnússon, 16.2.2009 kl. 18:22]

"But Gregg, whales are practically human!!"

and about the whale and sheep comparisation, out of all the things people could comment on, why, for the love of God why comment on the feeding habits of the sheep??!!

Good timing on this debate though, you know how much of ram-testicles where eating over the next few weeks!! YAMMY

Later Skippy