"Tim" wrote in message .. .
pearl wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ...

So, would you be happy if they killed them the same way they kill cows?

No, indeed not. Most 'livestock' suffers considerably up to, and also
at slaughter. As you can see, this has been addressed elsewhere..

So then we should be boycotting every nation that slaughters cows as well?

The massive reaction against the seal killing is mostly because it
is _extremely_ cruel-, and carried out on a massive scale too.
Many seals suffer in indescribably awful ways, and such scenes
have been put into full public view this year. Faced with images
of extreme cruelty, people have been badly shocked and then
outraged, and that is, understandably, directed at the country
that carries out this horror. Were the realities of 'meat production'
made public in a similar manner, I think that most people would
be similarly compelled to oppose that, and would be boycotting
the meat industry by abstaining from meat - especially when
properly informed with the facts about nutrition- that we're not
a naturally carnivorous species anyway.. (clue: we're primates).

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