Reply To: PETA

Joseph:

“”Animals are tortured from nascence till departure from this world to the next.”

GMAB, So animals have Olam Habah as well? “

First of all, it’s an euphemism for death. Second, yes, I believe there is life after death for animals.

Bentzy18:

Then you are simply hardened to what you see. “They have heated shelters so that they don’t freeze, and for those who know cows, they pretty much don’t do all that much except eat.” Exactly. All they are is a bunch of eating machines. “However, while it bothers me that this is the only way to produce veal I have yet to see complete proof that this is Tzar Ba’ali Chaim. After all this cow’s purpose was to wind up as a delecacy on someone’s plate and when done it’s fulfilling it’s tafkid.” An animal’s tafkid is to be eaten? What’s that supposed to mean? And what was the tafkid of the animals before Noach’s time, may I ask? “Nope. There are also a lot of practices that parents do (or don’t do) while raising them but that doesn’t make them abusive or horrible parents.” Parents don’t starve their kids for two weeks to make them lay eggs, and they give them room to move, and they certainly don’t castrate their kids.