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Professor
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:31 pm
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Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor
Guest
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:59 pm
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Quote:
Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor

The animal rights groups will say that the animal kingdom is getting even with
us for mistreating them. Cows give milk and CJD. Civets give perfume and SARS.
Horses give HRT and cancer.

Ora
Mark D.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:18 pm
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<taurusrc@aol.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor

The animal rights groups will say that the animal kingdom is getting even
with
us for mistreating them. Cows give milk and CJD. Civets give perfume and
SARS.
Horses give HRT and cancer.

Ora

Or you could just say: *spot the troll*...

M.
Guest
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:20 pm
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Quote:
Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death,

Some of them have decent lives and some don't.

Quote:
whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor

You are incredibly lucky, or blessed, to be in the position
you're in. That doesn't mean the lives of beings in less fortunate
positions should not be given positive consideration, as you
"ARAs" want people to believe. You want people to believe
that none of their lives are worth living. Some are and some
are not. You "ARAs" want people to believe that none are.
George W. Cherry
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:53 pm
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"Professor" <professor@warehouse.ws> wrote in message
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Quote:
Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor


Yes, Professor, are human beings just great! Here's
e. e. cummings on this fine specimen.

pity this busy monster, manunkindnot. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim(death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
-- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange;lenses extend

unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born--pity poor flesh

and trees,poor stars and stones,but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if--listen:there's a hell
of a good universe next door;let's go
Bob Ward
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:15 am
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:18:48 -0000, "Mark D." <M@rk.D_is_now@home.com>
wrote:

Quote:
taurusrc@aol.com> wrote in message
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On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor

The animal rights groups will say that the animal kingdom is getting even
with
us for mistreating them. Cows give milk and CJD. Civets give perfume and
SARS.
Horses give HRT and cancer.

Ora

Or you could just say: *spot the troll*...

M.


I've never eaten spotted troll before. Is it anything like spotted
owl?
Phred
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:15 am
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In article <kn2s001bs5ebbpirjptjgmmp8p315ho0rq@4ax.com>,
Bob Ward <bobward@email.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:18:48 -0000,
"Mark D." <M@rk.D_is_now@home.com> wrote:
taurusrc@aol.com> wrote in message
news:g4gr00tlf83q0944geqgu6qo06hqq0sl7u@4ax.com...
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

The animal rights groups will say that the animal kingdom is getting even with
us for mistreating them. Cows give milk and CJD. Civets give perfume and SARS.
Horses give HRT and cancer.

Or you could just say: *spot the troll*...

I've never eaten spotted troll before. Is it anything like spotted
owl?

Nah. It's more like platypus, with a touch of that gum tree tang you
get with koala.


Cheers, Phred.

--
ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
Jim Webster
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:15 am
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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
In article <kn2s001bs5ebbpirjptjgmmp8p315ho0rq@4ax.com>,
Bob Ward <bobward@email.com> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:18:48 -0000,
"Mark D." <M@rk.D_is_now@home.com> wrote:
taurusrc@aol.com> wrote in message
news:g4gr00tlf83q0944geqgu6qo06hqq0sl7u@4ax.com...
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:

Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I
devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

The animal rights groups will say that the animal kingdom is getting
even with
us for mistreating them. Cows give milk and CJD. Civets give perfume
and SARS.
Horses give HRT and cancer.

Or you could just say: *spot the troll*...

I've never eaten spotted troll before. Is it anything like spotted
owl?

Nah. It's more like platypus, with a touch of that gum tree tang you
get with koala.

best stewed in their own juice


Jim Webster
Jonathan Ball
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:56 am
Guest
dh_ld@nomail.com wrote:

Quote:
On 20 Jan 2004 19:31:07 GMT, professor@warehouse.ws (Professor) wrote:


Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death,


Some of them have decent lives and some don't.

AFTER they are born. Being born in the first place, of
course, is not a benefit to any animal, ever.

Quote:


whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor


You are incredibly lucky, or blessed, to be in the position
you're in. That doesn't mean the lives of beings in less fortunate
positions should not be given positive consideration, as you
"ARAs" want people to believe.

There is no reason to give their lives ANY
consideration as something that ought to occur.

Quote:
You want people to believe
that none of their lives are worth living.

No, that's a lie. YOU, however, want the mere fact of
their "getting to experience life" to be given some
moral consideration that no sane person gives it.
AFN
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:19 pm
Guest
OK you idiot. I'll bite into this game.

I can kill others, but that doesn't mean I am better or that I should eat
them. So I don't kill. "Can" and "Should" are 2 different - ahem -
animals.

Jeffrey Dahmer bought into your theory and it seems he was wrong to assume
"can" equals "should".


"Professor" <professor@warehouse.ws> wrote in message
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Quote:
Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor
usual suspect
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:31 pm
Guest
AFN top posted:
Quote:
OK you idiot. I'll bite into this game.

What makes you think the OP is an idiot?

Quote:
I can kill others, but that doesn't mean I am better or that I should eat
them. So I don't kill.

Kill animals or kill people? Animals and people are not the same. The
fact remains that animals die so you can eat vegetables, grains, and
legumes. Oh yes, not to mention cotton and hemp -- both of which are
lethal crops for animals. Do you favor synthetic materials over fur?
Those are made by "big oil" companies and those materials cause a lot of
pollution when they're refined from crude oil and its derivatives.

Quote:
"Can" and "Should" are 2 different - ahem -
animals.

They are, but that's not the issue. The real issue is whether or not
your diet is free of suffering and death simply because you don't eat
meat. It isn't. Nor is your cotton, hemp, and synthetic clothing
"cruelty free." Do you care than animals die in crop production?
Transportation? Storage? Processing? No. You sanctimoniously decree
yourself as more ethical even though more animals die for your food and
clothes than die for someone who eats grazed animals and vegetables.
You're a hypocrite: your diet and lifestyle kills animals, yet you only
point your finger at those who eat meat.

Quote:
Jeffrey Dahmer bought into your theory and it seems he was wrong to assume
"can" equals "should".

I would suggest that Dahmer's problems were much more profound than
that. I await your ignorant banter about Nazis, too, even though they
passed the most stringent animal rights laws in history (at least to
that point in time).

Quote:
"Professor" <professor@warehouse.ws> wrote in message
news:bujvlr$3f4$1@pita.alt.net...

Man is the master of animals, we can kill them at will.

I often visit www.factoryfarming.com, where again and again, I am
reminded of my superiority over farm animals. They are bound to
miserable existence and ghoulish death, whereas I am enjoying their
tissues and an enriched environment and great lifestyle. When I devour
nice pale veal, I feel, gee, I must be a very important person if a
veal has to suffer like in a tiny cage, for my eating pleasure.

Professor


Rat & Swan
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:23 am
Guest
usual suspect wrote:

<snip>
Quote:
. I await your ignorant banter about Nazis, too, even though they
passed the most stringent animal rights laws in history (at least to
that point in time).

Absolutely false. The Nazi government did not pass any "animal
rights" laws at all, or carry out any of the basic goals of
animal _rights_.

You want to do this dance again, Usual? You're just plain
wrong on this one.

Rat
<snip>
usual suspect
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 9:52 am
Guest
degeneRat & Strap-on wrote:
Quote:
snip
. I await your ignorant banter about Nazis, too, even though they
passed the most stringent animal rights laws in history (at least to
that point in time).

Not a Godwin moment. I pointed out an historical fact since the dolt to
whom I was responding had already called someone an idiot; I figured his
response would be to call me, and possibly anyone else who replied, a
pro-meat Nazi. I nipped it in the bud.

Quote:
Absolutely false. The Nazi government did not pass any "animal
rights" laws at all, or carry out any of the basic goals of
animal _rights_.

You call those laws "animal welfare" laws which have nothing to do with
post-1970s AR. It's a distinction without a difference despite your
sophistry that "post-1970s AR did not exist in the 1920s and 1930s so it
isn't really AR but maybe AW." You choose to ignore the fact that AR
developed in a continuum which included Germans in the Nazi era. The
primary source (Boria Sax) YOU offered to disabuse me actually confirmed
my position rather than yours:
The list of pro-animal predilections on the part of top Nazis is
long, but more important are the animal rights policies
implemented by the Nazi state and the underlying ideology that
justified them. Within a few months of taking power, the Nazis
passed animal rights laws that were UNPRECEDENTED IN SCALE and
that explicitly affirmed the moral status of animals independent
of any human interest. These decrees stressed the duty to avoid
causing pain to animals and established extremely detailed and
concrete guidelines for interactions with animals. According to
a leading scholar of Nazi animal legislation, “the Animal
Protection Law of 1933 was probably the strictest in the world”.
http://www.communalism.org/Archive/5/aar.html (my emphasis)

And before you bicker with the use of the term "animal rights," consider:
...The Nazi laws insisted on “the right which animals inherently
possess to be protected in and of themselves.”
(ibid; footnote says, "...Sax gives a compact exposition of the
same passage on pp. 121-2 of Animals in the Third Reich.")

What is the difference between "the right which animals inherently
possess to be protected in and of themselves," laws "that explicitly
affirmed the moral status of animals independent of any human interest,"
and whatever you now claim is "post-1970s AR"? Distinctions without ANY
difference.

Quote:
You want to do this dance again, Usual?

The question is, Do you? I recall you refused to Google your past
refutations. You also wussed out of the last thread on this issue.

Quote:
You're just plain wrong on this one.

No, you are a sophist. You're the one who does not look at the big
picture of AR history and preceding movements and actions.
Rat & Swan
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:40 am
Guest
usual suspect wrote:

Quote:
Rat wrote:

<snip>
Quote:
Absolutely false. The Nazi government did not pass any "animal
rights" laws at all, or carry out any of the basic goals of
animal _rights_.

You call those laws "animal welfare" laws which have nothing to do with
post-1970s AR.

Absolutely true. They were.


Quote:
It's a distinction without a difference despite your
sophistry that "post-1970s AR did not exist in the 1920s and 1930s so it
isn't really AR but maybe AW."

There was a huge difference. Any pro-AR government/movement would have
worked to eliminate use of animals in medicine, as food, as fur, as
leather. The Nazi government encouraged all of those uses, and even
built a new, large facility which specifically BRED animals for
lab use. The Nazi government encouraged hunting (under Goering, who
was a hunter) encouraged farming (under Darre, who was a pig breeder),
encouraged looking on both humans and domestic animals as breeding
stock with no independent worth as individuals (under Himmler, the
chicken farmer). Sure, like the hunting organizations and the pet
breeders, they supported animal welfare for their human and animal
slaves, and encouraged elimination of human and animal "vermin" (as do
farmers). That didn't make them pro-AR.

They opposed vivisection and Jewish ritual slaughter for reasons that
had nothing to do with the motives of AR supporters -- they saw
vivisection and Kosher slaughter as Jewish, and part of a fragmenting
movement of "Jewish" and "Marxist" science which was attempting to
destroy the holistic and non-materialistic view of the world based in
the Nazis' Romantic ideological roots. There was NO philosophical
connection between modern AR and any Nazi philosophy or actions.

To claim otherwise is deliberate and dishonest sophistry.

<snip>

Quote:
What is the difference between "the right which animals inherently
possess to be protected in and of themselves," laws "that explicitly
affirmed the moral status of animals independent of any human interest,"
and whatever you now claim is "post-1970s AR"? Distinctions without ANY
difference.

The Nazi language is the same sort used by any of the modern animal
welfare organizations. It is not AR language, or an AR view in itself.

Quote:
You want to do this dance again, Usual?

The question is, Do you? I recall you refused to Google your past
refutations.

I can give them in detail again if you want, but any competent
websearch would find them.

<snip>

Rat
usual suspect
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:16 pm
Guest
degene-Rat wrote:
Quote:
snip

Absolutely false. The Nazi government did not pass any "animal
rights" laws at all, or carry out any of the basic goals of
animal _rights_.

You call those laws "animal welfare" laws which have nothing to do
with post-1970s AR.

Absolutely true. They were.

RESTORE REST OF WHAT YOU SNIPPED:
It's a distinction without a difference despite your sophistry that
"post-1970s AR did not exist in the 1920s and 1930s so it isn't really
AR but maybe AW." You choose to ignore the fact that AR developed in a
continuum which included Germans in the Nazi era. The primary source
(Boria Sax) YOU offered to disabuse me actually confirmed my position
rather than yours:
The list of pro-animal predilections on the part of top Nazis is
long, but more important are the animal rights policies
implemented by the Nazi state and the underlying ideology that
justified them. Within a few months of taking power, the Nazis
passed animal rights laws that were UNPRECEDENTED IN SCALE and
that explicitly affirmed the moral status of animals independent
of any human interest. These decrees stressed the duty to avoid
causing pain to animals and established extremely detailed and
concrete guidelines for interactions with animals. According to
a leading scholar of Nazi animal legislation, “the Animal
Protection Law of 1933 was probably the strictest in the world”.
http://www.communalism.org/Archive/5/aar.html (my emphasis)

And before you bicker with the use of the term "animal rights," consider:
...The Nazi laws insisted on “the right which animals inherently
possess to be protected in and of themselves.”
(ibid; footnote says, "...Sax gives a compact exposition of the
same passage on pp. 121-2 of Animals in the Third Reich.")

END RESTORE.

Quote:
It's a distinction without a difference despite your sophistry that
"post-1970s AR did not exist in the 1920s and 1930s so it isn't really
AR but maybe AW."

There was a huge difference.

No, there wasn't:
Within a few months of taking power, the Nazis passed animal
rights laws that were UNPRECEDENTED IN SCALE and that explicitly
affirmed the moral status of animals independent of any human
interest.

Quote:
Any pro-AR government/movement would have
worked to eliminate use of animals in medicine, as food, as fur, as
leather.

Not necessarily. Significant policy shifts are more likely to occur
gradually than radically. Chronologically speaking, too, the Nazi AR
laws were ahead of the curve. They were radical enough by merely
affirming a moral status to animals, which is a first step to the
measures you endorse.

Quote:
The Nazi government encouraged all of those uses, and even
built a new, large facility which specifically BRED animals for
lab use. The Nazi government encouraged hunting (under Goering, who
was a hunter) encouraged farming (under Darre, who was a pig breeder),
encouraged looking on both humans and domestic animals as breeding
stock with no independent worth as individuals (under Himmler, the
chicken farmer). Sure, like the hunting organizations and the pet
breeders, they supported animal welfare for their human and animal
slaves, and encouraged elimination of human and animal "vermin" (as do
farmers). That didn't make them pro-AR.

It did both within their milieu and as forerunners of later thought.

Quote:
They opposed vivisection and Jewish ritual slaughter for reasons that
had nothing to do with the motives of AR supporters --

Irrelevant.

Quote:
they saw
vivisection and Kosher slaughter as Jewish, and part of a fragmenting
movement of "Jewish" and "Marxist" science which was attempting to
destroy the holistic and non-materialistic view of the world based in
the Nazis' Romantic ideological roots. There was NO philosophical
connection between modern AR and any Nazi philosophy or actions.

Nonsense, and your own source (Sax) says as much.

Quote:
To claim otherwise is deliberate and dishonest sophistry.

No, it is to speak the truth. Your incessant splitting of hairs about
what is or isn't AR is sophistry and you know it.

Quote:
snip

What is the difference between "the right which animals inherently
possess to be protected in and of themselves," laws "that explicitly
affirmed the moral status of animals independent of any human
interest," and whatever you now claim is "post-1970s AR"? Distinctions
without ANY difference.

The Nazi language is the same sort used by any of the modern animal
welfare organizations. It is not AR language, or an AR view in itself.

Not looking at it in the myopic post-1970s view you have. Looking at it
in its full historical context, though, it clearly is AR in and of
itself. I look at things in context, you don't. That's why and where we
disagree on this matter.

Quote:
You want to do this dance again, Usual?

The question is, Do you? I recall you refused to Google your past
refutations.

I can give them in detail again if you want, but any competent
websearch would find them.

My search was competent. Yes, I want detail. At the very least paste in
some links to your previous efforts.
 
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