Quote Originally Posted by Amon_Re View Post
Yes because there is no gain in giving away free food. You do realize what they do with food they can't sell right? It gets tossed on a landfill or used as manure because it's cheaper to dispose of it than to ship it to starving people.

Lack of food/resources isn't why people are starving. It's because we f'cking let them.
Back to what I said a few posts ago... The 'fat cats' will donate what they can afford to. Again, if food was plentiful to the point of being worthless, would people still starve? So to save the suffering of some chickens, we need to take the rich and make their money the poor's...
No thanks.

Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
While technically, yes, insects are in the Animalia Kingdom, when people are talking about "animals" colloquially, they're typically talking about vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish), rather than invertebrates. So, personally, all of your insect examples are irrelevant to my conversation. Your one vertebrate example, constricting snakes, go along with my statement just fine. They're still aiming for the quickest death they can get, and they're doing the best with the abilities of their bodies. I mean, what else can they do with no arms, legs, or venom?
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Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
People just like to be judgmental and tell other people what to do. Like "How dare you care about how animals are treated when... blah blah blah?" More like how dare you try to enforce what I can and can't care about? The whole "this cause is more important than that cause" mentality is complete and utter BS. If you follow that train of thought, then I guess we shouldn't care at all about homeless and hungry people in America too because people in other countries have it so much worse, right? C'mon. These are ALL issues that deserve attention. There's no reason why someone can't care about the needless suffering of ALL life. Everybody could take a lesson from Saint Francis.
I have no issue with how you feel, it's what you do with those feelings I take issue with. I actually applaud the humanitarian feelings you and Amon Re and others feel. However, if it is going to make it more expensive to feed my kids, to hell with your philosophy. I have every right to feel this 'cause' is a joke, a waste of human resources. Again, when all of the human issues are solved, I'll start worrying about the poor chickens.

To me, to worry about another species while your own has such serious troubles (that are directly related, but eh, I'm tired of trying to teach business here) is no different than a person who can't feed their family giving to a charity or a church. That is irresponsible.