Foie Gras banned!!!

Oh, be certain that animals are tortured to a high degree for medicine and food, too. But both animal food and new medicine are a convenience and not a necessity, right? Where do you draw the line? Do we need eggs for breakfast? No. So let's stop torturing the chickens for them.
Do we need a juicy T-bone steak? No. So let's stop torturing the cattle.
As far as I can see, this would simply be a matter of degree, not of principle. If I'm wrong, tell me. Where would you draw the line, and most importantly: Why?

Now you're trying to compare eating eggs with eating Foie Gras. Your arguments are stupid to the point of parody.

Like I said - it's already too late for you. I hope the next animal you torture bites your throat out.

Oh come on! We're almost there. Where is the difference? I've seen how these chickens are treated. It may not be as bad as the Foie Grad treatment, but it sure is like hell to the chicken. If you have the reason, why are you hiding it?

Cavemen did not have foie gras!

Only morons extend human traits to animals. The birds are going to be eaten one way or another.

Foie Gras is tasty. Looking foward to eating some this weekend in New Orleans.

There are laws concerning the treatment of chickens. Eggs are a staple of our diet. Omelets are not foie gras. A chicken laying eggs is not a goose with a metal tube down it's throat being force fed twice it's body weight in grain.

Now how much simpler can I make it before you understand?

Animal cruelty and stupidity go hand in hand. It's easy to make you look like an idiot, but you're too dumb to realize it when it's happening, so you just refuse to shut up and lord knows you'll never make a change in your own opinion after consideration.

I'm done with you, ok? You're a dumbass degenerate, you're satisfied with that, and all I can really say about people like you is that I hope our society reaches a point one day where we can identify you before birth and just weed you out of the gene pool.

maybe you can answer this for me Mike: Why are conservatives always arguing for the right to torture animals?

Let me start of by saying that I am in fact not a republican (I'm actually in favour of a form of social liberalism somewhat similar to that of John Rawls, as described in A Theory of Justice, but I doubt you have any idea what that even means). I am also, at present, a vegetarian. (And no, I don't need to look up the meaning of hypocrisy, but that's just because, unlike you, I did finish high school.)

Now, it seems clear you didn't quite understand my argument, so let me reiterate it in a form that may be easier to understand for the likes of you. The laws we currently have concerning animal welfare are inadequate, and perpetuate a system which thrives on animal suffering. The bulk of this suffering is caused by mainstream, large scale factory farming, which is a fundamental part of contemporary meat production. Yet, in terms of animal cruelty, it is on par with such practices as force-feeding geese and clubbing baby seals to death for their fur.
For some odd reason, however, the bulk of public attention goes to these relatively uncommon practices, rather than the much more widespread animal suffering caused by factory farming. So, instead of focusing on the obvious huge problems to which people contribute directly through their own actions, they focus on the much smaller problems caused by the actions of a few.

That, my mentally challenged friend, is hypocrisy. An army of pots rioting over the blackness of a dozen kettles.

I was with you thru all your posts... untill this pic. What's with that collar with the spikes turned inwards? That is unneeded cruelty aswell (can't control a pitbull with a normal collar? Buy a chiuaua)

I have a BA in poli sci you fucking retard, so flaunt your pseudo intelligence elsewhere.

It is NOT 'on a par' with force feeding geese. We are omnivores, it's natural for us to eat meat. It's our responsibility as empathetic creatures to accomplish our dietary chore as humanely as possible. I salute you for your vegetarianism, I think it's admirable, but I don't feel guilty for eating meat. I just want it killed and brought to the table as painlessly as possible.

Of course MikeAI and most conservatives take a perverted joy in flaunting how much they don't care how much the animal is hurt. They think it's pretty funny and it makes them feel like real men. YOU, on the other hand, should know better.

the spikes are blunt, and they're the only way he can be controlled if another dog gets too close to him. Believe me, he barely even feels it.

If you have a Pit Bull or any other large dog with the potential to be aggressive, your FIRST responsibility is to make sure he's under control in public at all times.

although i personally dont have a soft spot for animals, i can easily see a distinction between what most would be considered "cruel and inhumane" in producing food for mass consumption and "cuel and inhumane" in producing a delicacy.

It's a simple distinction, and most of these guys are pretending not to get it. At least I hope they're pretending. Otherwise they're pretty fucking stupid.

with that being said..this thread is closed

no it's not. The fact that we eat animals doesn't mean we can torture them all we like, and that's basically what he's saying here.

Okay. I would explain it to you, but you certainly have issues here. If you don't want to listen, I can't help you. I'm sorry I wasted my time here.

And if you think that hurting animals to provide for human well-being is bad even though you can't explain why, yet believe in eugenics to enforce your views, I'm done too.

Radicals who can't back their views with a reason always have to resort to force.

oh, and here's a picture of a chicken from a laying battery. It must have been like paradise for the chicken. And every person with an egg-allergy can testify that eggs are a necessary staple of our diet.