First of all, thank you streetspirit. I was thinking to just let somebody else deal with this person and I appreciate your attempt...
However, the suplaini thing (is that some kind of an attempt to make witty play on my name or is a legitimate typo? seriously? just want to know what I am dealing with here... typos are fine... but this? I would like to know.)
Now, as you have decided to take this to a practical level - let us proceed. First of all, shutting down the meat industry would be quite simple - I will address this - even though I feel your even bringing up this complication of surplus animals absolutely and incredibly absurd...
First, however I would like to address you sympathy for the folks who have been eating meat all their lives...
How could we possibly rip that burger out of their hands SO RUTHLESSLY! how cruel of me to even suggest that they might have to eat salad and avocado, nuts, fruits, legumes, and veggies... how silly and unrealistic of me... it makes much more sense to do
this righto... that's much more natural.
I suggest that providing meat to consumers should be illegal. If you want to go out to what is left of the woods and nature and kill a deer or catch a fish, I do not suggest somebody come and shoot you on sight. However, in my world there would be "seasons" and the same laws that are in effect for sportsmans clubs - no barbs, no nets, no automatic firepower etc... AND NO SALE OF FLESH. SELLING WOULD BE ILLEGAL. BREEDING ILLEGAL. KEEPING LIVESTOCK ILLEGAL.
with bird flu and other disease it makes sense to do this anyhow - why should I get some crazy disease created by this incredible imbalance in nature and peoples sick greed and lack of compassion - just because those meat eaters "grew up their entire lives eating meat?"
oh just the though of tearing big macs from their clutching hands is getting me teary eyed.
And frankly you signature is rather funny. Let's have a look.
"I don't eat my friends?" but you think they should be sold and bread and murdered and tortured and... oh just watch the link above. Nice. And you think that nobody should make money off of Morrissey but you think that people who create nothing, have nothing to share or sell, no creativity except the ability to breed and kill defenseless animals - you think that is a good way to make money... better than selling dvds of a show? (btw i don't sell shows, I trade plenty and give freely) Personally I think that Moz would definitely rather we sell bootlegs than flesh and murder... just a thought.
Now... onto the rather stupid part of your post. The meat industry has been going on for how long? how many generations of animals have died? how many generations of humans have abused and murdered them? I mean completely stripping the world of the entire industry my friend... this one generation of animals is not my main or only concern, although it is a concern.
I see the meat industry - those buildings and "farms" as just giants smoke stacks spewing negative and destructive puke energy onto the world 24 hours a day 7 days a week. That is like a gaping wound for the earth - energetically - and in my world and mind - it effects everything that happens.
I believe that if humans changed to vegetarian diet, a lot of the worlds problems with war and aggression would end. PLEASE don't pull the 6th grader retaliation about hitler being a veg... he was a madman... and I do not say that all war and problems would end... but many of them would.
Albert Einstein said that the only way for the human race to survive will be to turn to a vegetarian diet... hmm... have a look at the movie Devour the Earth... its old but its narrated by Paul McCartney and its a nice look at how meat eaters destroy the air and land and resources that are on this earth - destroy them for me and the rest of the vegetarians as well as themselves. Therefor YOU are the fascist here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVbj1pWGpkQ
Now, back to the stupid part of your comment about surplus animals - first of all this shift would, like many laws that go into effect, need time to be approved and processed and to take effect. All animals that are in these places should immediately be spayed. No reproduction allowed at all - today start now. The remaining animals - I am sad to say, would most likely have to continue on the normal conveyor belt to their doom and demise... if the laws were in effect already then the meat would have to be donated to those who have not the food that it takes to live... wherever they may live - I am sure plenty of shelters and Red Cross stations would be happy to have it... as well as starving people. The rest of the world does not need it right now.
Furthermore, without cattle ruining the land and air and eating up huge amounts of grain to produce a fraction of its nutritional worth and weight - those people with no food will not be seeing their last meal - but many many more to come... as this world has all the resources we need to sustain ourselves and the meat industry uses them all up greedily for this NEEDLESS act of eating meat.
I would feel sad for the many animals that die but happy that the industry is GONE GONE GONE. We do not need meat. Some people NEED food desperately to live and they do not have any at all... they are dying and starving as we speak... so I feel that the best way to deal with this issue would be to give it to them - just like in the wild a zebra is killed by a hungry lion because the lion needs to eat - well this seems to me the closest thing to a natural way to deal with these animals (even though it is far from natural but we have strayed so far from natural! Meat is no longer natural) because those people are hungry and need food.
And after that we would be meat free and it would be a whole new day... a whole new way of living on this planet.
When you say these things like it is fascist to take meat away from people who have had it all their lives... it sounds - frankly, very just plain dumb to me.
If I grow up in a militant household of extremists... do you not take away my guns and bombs if I come to your town? What if I started when I was 6 or 7 like many child soldiers do in this world? And what if I grew up around it and my family were all martyrs flying into buildings and stuff like that... then is it fascist to make flying into buildings and suicide bombing illegal?
Do you think my comparisons are extreme?
The difference between you and me is probably that I don't
"All beings tremble before violence. All. fear death. All love life. See yourself in. others. Then whom can you hurt?."
My ego is not so big as to think that my fear and pain is more significant than that of another being with whom I am supposed to be sharing this earth.
