The Iron Ninja post=18.70520.719198 said:
Imagine it as a different animal. If you had to lower live cows into a vat of boilng water, would you want to eat the cow afterwards?
Actually yes. Which makes me feel like clarifying that I'm not some kind of sadist that tortures animals or anything, I love animals and have perfectly healthy pets to prove it (Well they're not perfectly healthy but nothing that could have been avoided).
I guess I go for the whole 'killing animals is natural and necessary' thing, so I don't feel so bad about it. Besides, no one can know how different animals feel pain but I doubt a crab would feel as bad about cooking to deaht in a boiling pot as humans would. I would assume they would a) die a lot quicker and b) don't have the capacity to feel pain that thoroughly (no offense).
What I don't like though is people hunting with arrows or spears, and all they do is stick them into the animal's side 50 times until they die. Apparently they don't know that a spear into an animal's side is just gonna hurt like hell, aim for the neck or something if you're gonna kill it. And genocide. I don't particularly care for genocide.
Secret: I'm Jewish. More of a fun fact than a secret but I don't feel like thinking of a better one right now.