Dear Maggie, Not truly sent to particularly make you feel guilty. And I am sorry if I did. Just being realistic and to create thought and I accept yes that guilt has its part to play. Hopefully it makes us more sensitive, caring, considerate and thoughtful and give respect where its due. I try to put myself there. The World lives inside some of us and through it must come what must. AND WOW........ bet your mother-in-law loved that comment!! You have now got a Platinum Star in my books! I have just had Pork sausages. ce la vie. Its not the killing its the damned process now that they are put through before it happens. I recall the pigs coming into the slaughter house in Derby. I could hear them from my studio at the top of our offices. Drove me insane; the sheer terror building up and up. Inhumane. I was given the choice to put my first dog down by my Vet and took it............. My first sheepdog ever, he had Distemper and we had fought to save his life for weeks. I cried and cried & was then allowed to smoke in the surgery. When I walked out a nurse shouted at me telling me to put it out etc. I cant recall if I said anything, I think I just looked at her and went to my car. She alter appollogised. We have to accept the responsibilities of the choices we make in life about the lives we accept and have control over and give to us of their all. It is all too easy for most as they fob the decisions and acts off on others, sheer hypocracy. I dont say they dont feel or are not deeply hurt but that attitude is only partaking of life and its benefits at a distance; only half living, a mere ghost of a life as an animal of nature. It broke my heart the first time I shot a bird. I can recall it now so very clearly. It taught me a lot that little life when I held it in my hands. It was once common to call animals Dumb, from my experience that is far from true and often their intelligence far outshines that of so called human beings. They are natural; human animals arnt. I think it is an insult to animals to call a human being an Animal. Monster is more appropriate. And more so each day. Best wishes, Mikey. Now hail and thunder and lightening with this gale here. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] ANIMALS > Oh Mikey, you make me feel guilty about my chops and it is the first meat I > have eaten for about a month!!!! I think I am guilty, as are many others, of > not relating the chop with an animal....if I do I can't finish it. I know, > big softy, but I remember getting on the wrong side of my m-in-law by stating > that I couldn't see the difference between eating meat and eating my > dog...and I wouldn't want to eat my beloved pet. Now, I suppose I am going > to have to duck on this list as well :( > > I once went to the local slaughterhouse to pick up my meat for the > freezer......went vegetarian for quite a few years after that. > > Regards, > Maggie > > Surname interests: > BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent > MATTHEWS, GRANT, COAFFEE, BERESFORD, SWEENEY > in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > Add a link to your website here, > http://pub23.bravenet.com/freelink/show.php?usernum=1926973379&cpv=1 >