Thinking about Animals or Save the Vegetables

Warning: This will probably offend you and you won’t read my blog anymore.

I confess I am an unrepentant meat-eating, heterosexual, who believes in constitutional government, individual rights and responsibilities. I realize that these are unpopular, repulsive habits and beliefs. People tell me to keep my opinions to myself, but I don’t and that makes me offensive. I read a blog by a vegetarian, homosexual, non-violent anarchist. Unlike me, she seems like a nice lady. She teaches at a college. I don’t have a college degree and therefore lack the education to understand other points of view. (Unmitigated humbug)

Most college graduates learn only the information required for their field of study. I’ve read that a lot of professors are leftist, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t good teachers. Most have been educated in state schools and hired with tax dollars, so they must be knowledgeable.

Thinking about Animals

Animal rights proponents believe we shouldn’t kill animals of any kind, including birds and, sometimes, fish. They claim all creatures are equal. I disagree. Only humans can think and comprehend concepts like time and death. A human baby’s life should be saved before a kitten’s because a baby has the potential to think, among other reasons.
Thinking requires a language to think in. When animals appear to think, they either use a language incomprehensible to humans or they use instincts. Animals learn the meanings of some human words and actions, but that doesn’t mean animals think. People train horses to perform via cues, but horses don’t have a language. They cannot think, “My person asked me to trot.” They associate the cue with the action for which they have been rewarded.
Some claim their pets are as smart as humans. They probably are. Many humans don’t think, either. Some animal rightists keep dogs and cats. These animals require meat protein, which in commercial food comes from byproducts of meat and fish processing.
Our ancestors hunted and gathered before they farmed and raised grain. Meat is a natural food for people and healthier than the excessive refined carbohydrates we consume today. Man manufactures white flour and sugar. They aren’t found in nature. Animal rightists believe advanced civilizations should exist on vegetables and grains rather than meat. They theorize civilized people shouldn’t kill animals. Yet civilized people kill other humans.
Humans can kill livestock quickly and painlessly. Most livestock thrives on plants people can’t use, like grass, on land unsuitable for growing anything else. Many animal rightists are also extreme environmentalists who don’t like the idea of people in the world. To them, people harm the environment. On the other hand, people who believe in a creator believe humans are the ultimate creation.
Natural forces also destroy the environment and animal life. Humans are part of creation and should be responsible stewards of the earth. If we protected all animals from slaughter, domestic livestock could only be pets. Eventually cows, pigs and chickens would become endangered since raising them is too laborious and expensive to justify keeping them as pets. All fishing would end, too. Living on protein-poor, high carbohydrate diets, more people would succumb to diabetes and other carbohydrate related ills.
The idea of ending meat eating and creating chicken sanctuaries reminds me of an old hippie song. The farmer took some LSD and set all the chickens free. Animal rightists seem to be projecting their own feelings onto animals. Perhaps the animal rightists were abused in some way or indulge in hypersensitivity to emotions. They can’t seem to accept the unpleasant necessities of life, such as birth pains, illness and death. They seem disconnected from the natural world they worship, a world where people work on land and sea to produce essential protein.