There are many organisations supporting different things. Some help people, some help animals. Nothing wrong with both. I am sure you are doing a lot to help the starving children in 3rd world countries. I also hope you are not planning to kick your cats, out or anywhere.
And changing our Western diets would go a long way to help starving peoples. We feed the greater majority of the crops that we raise to “meat” animals, not people.Those crops could go ***directly ***to people instead. People in third world countries do not benefit from the luxury tastes of affluent nations, but actually could be helped if we would free up some of those crops and get them directly to people.
OK–now that’s just bad meat.
Wow! Looks like he’s written a lot of books. Have you read any yourself??? Any one in particular that you recommend??
I never said “not at all cost”. There are also limits placed on our use of animals. However when PETA says:
I say (along with the Church):
Yes, I know this is not a carte blanche right, but rather it is PETA that takes the carte blanche stance. The Church balances the legitimacy of using animals and animal products with prohibitions against cruelty.
i am not familiar with the actual food prices of western grown crops, but given the little facts i know that anything produced in fully industrialized nations tend to be more expensive than the ones produced in third world countries. so i don’t know if African countries can afford to buy US produced grains as opposed to those grown locally or in other similar third world countries. one factor of course is the cost of labor, where in most third world countries labor would cost $50 a month or less
Thanks for your clarification. We all try to do the best we can according to our own consciences.it was a joke?
in any case, i’m not going to lie and say i regularly donate to funds that help starving people and children. but on the occassion i do, i’d rather give that money to feed hungry people in third world countries than a group who spends their time criticizing Obama for swatting a fly on national TV
i’m just saying, the money that goes to PETA can be better used to feed more people in Africa or India or other third world countries. each dollar that goes to feed a puppy in California could have gone to feed a child in Africa. a dollar goes a long, long way in third world countries
Have to confess that I never heard of him before coming across an article of his. He has been jailed for his anti war position. He was nominated for the nobel prize in 2008. And a vegetarian to boot. A person to admire who inspires. Need to check on his books, I think I saw one on Amazon.
well, i’m a Filipino living in Canada, so i don’t really care much about Obama
You now live in Canada so you should have some idea of costs. That said, do you reall y think its cheaper to raise animals for food? It is then necessary to grow grain etc to feed those animals. So it must be cheaper to grow grain. The idea is for all to grow trees, plants for food. The cost would be in line with the cost of living of the place you live.
what i meant was wholesale prices
USAID - ships tons of grain to countries in need. usaid.gov/
Another comedian on this thread!!!
I like that term, David vs. Goliath agriculture. We consumers have to pay attention to what Goliath is doing, and what we are paying for. We are paying for a lot of bad stuff–including industrialized cruelty, health risks to humans, unhealthy high calorie/low nutrition food, misappropriated resources, soil and water pollution, etc., etc…
I’ve eaten horse in France without knowing it (until afterwards). ‘Misappropriated resources’ - there’s a trade in old, infirm horses turning up as food on a plate, utilitarian ethics suggest doing the same with dog. They’ve been raised and well-fed, should we now throw the product away (i.e. bury / incinerate it), it seems a waste of resources, or put it to life-giving use? Emotionally challenging, most people wouldn’t realize what they were eating (other than it being meat); and it would eliminate some of the problems caused by raising livestock such as cattle and sheep. Covers two functions - companion/pet and food. The more I think about it, the more responsible it seems. Some takeaway places I’ve eaten at, there’s no way all those shaped objects come from a chicken (they’re just the wrong shape). Who knows what goes into hamburger (it aint ham)?
Actually, it’s ground up dairy cows (whose productivity had slumped), along with–in the case of the McDonald’s Corporation, some corn filler laced with ammonia (to kill E.coli). I highly recommend seeing the documentary film FOOD, INC., if you are interested in what the big conglomerates are doing to your food. Don’t worry, the film does not tout veganism or vegetarianism. Doesn’t even use the** v **word. But the thought might cross your mind, when a mother who lost her young son to a hamburger, stomps on Washington in an effort to get the government to start paying attention to what our large corporations are doing in the name of “food.”