PETA

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  • #624640
    feivel
    Participant

    “Bacteria are not feeling.”

    from which exact scientific study did you pick this up?

    are you certain?

    if so, based on what?

    they certainly react to their environment and flee chemicals which are noxious to them…

    if youre not certain are you willing to risk the death and suffering of millions of innocent lives?!

    check this out

    “Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory — Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality.”

    from

    httttttttttttp://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2008/2396857.htm

    extra “t”s added by me

    #624641
    feivel
    Participant

    “absolutely necessary, or impossible to avoid”

    how do you determine necessity, or inability to avoid?

    according to whom?

    what standards?

    what criteria?

    whose values?

    getting a little bit closer.

    #624642
    Joseph
    Participant

    Feivel, why do you add t’s to your links?

    #624643

    feivel:

    Cognitive is not literal. How can bacteria feel if they have no nerves?

    P.S. I go to zoos, but only to those in which the animals have large spaces to roam.

    #624644

    feivel:

    Here’s probably the only time I agree with Joseph – why DO you add t’s to your link?

    #624645
    feivel
    Participant

    joseph

    i thought you cant post links here, i figured if it was a broken link, it would get past the software that throws them out, people can then remove the t’s

    that’s not necessary?

    #624646
    feivel
    Participant

    “How can bacteria feel if they have no nerves?”

    i have no idea

    is consciousness dependent on nerves?

    no one (scientifically speaking) knows what consciousness is!

    maybe a tree has consciousness, many people think they do.

    i ask again is it worth the horrible death of millions?

    can you prove they have no consciousness?

    can you prove they have no feelings?

    NO you cant!

    #624647

    feivel:

    Consciousness needs a brain, which is essentially a cluster of nerves. If there are no nerves, what convey messages of feeling?

    #624648
    feivel
    Participant

    okay, i give up.

    how about ants?

    #624649

    feivel:

    Yes, ants suffer, but you can’t be expected to watch every step.

    #624650

    Yes, I do agree that animals should be treated ethically, but as stated before, I do not believe that PETA fulfills this purpose.

    Re ants, it is very difficult to accidentally kill an ant by stepping on it. Ants are so tiny that generally, people can step on the sidewalk and the minuscule space between the soles of our shoes and the surface of the ground is enough to shield ants from injury or death. When I was much younger, I used to keep my eyes trained on the ground as I walked to ensure that I didn’t step on ants or other insects; however, now I know that there’s no need to do that.

    #624651
    feivel
    Participant

    “now i know there’s no need to do that”

    no need to do that!!

    are you crazy?

    killing innocent living feeling creatures?!

    are you a mass murderer?

    what if you carried a disease that was usually fatal and extremely contagious?

    would you say, well it’s very difficult for me to avoid coming into contact with people, if they die, they die, i cant just stay home.

    if you arent willing to take the trouble to walk outside very slowly, with your eyes paying very close attention to the ground, you should stay home!

    ants have rights too.

    who are you to decide that random innocent lives shall be shed, because you are too preoccupied to avoid killing them?

    “Ants are so tiny that generally, people can step on the sidewalk and the minuscule space between the soles of our shoes and the surface of the ground is enough to shield ants from injury or death”

    i guess a serial killer can find any excuse.

    what you said is not true.

    there is no space between the midsole and central heel of your shoe and the ground.

    otherwise you would be literally walking on air.

    #624652
    feivel
    Participant

    “now i know there’s no need to do that”

    no need to do that!!

    are you crazy?

    killing innocent living feeling creatures?!

    are you a mass murderer?

    what if you carried a disease that was usually fatal and extremely contagious?

    would you say, well it’s very difficult for me to avoid coming into contact with people, if they die, they die, i cant just stay home.

    if you arent willing to take the trouble to walk outside very slowly, with your eyes paying very close attention to the ground, you should stay home!

    ants have rights too.

    who are you to decide that random innocent lives shall be shed, because you are too preoccupied to avoid killing them?

    “Ants are so tiny that generally, people can step on the sidewalk and the minuscule space between the soles of our shoes and the surface of the ground is enough to shield ants from injury or death”

    i guess a serial killer can find any excuse.

    what you said is not true.

    there is no space between the midsole and central heel of your shoe and the ground.

    otherwise you would be literally walking on air.

    PLEASE STOP THE HORRIFIC MURDER OF THE INNOCENT

    #624653

    feivel:

    Nobody WANTS to kill ants – they do it by accident.

    #624654
    feivel
    Participant

    “Nobody WANTS to kill ants – they do it by accident. “

    an all too AVOIDABLE sccident

    what if you carried a disease that was usually fatal and extremely contagious?

    would you say, well it’s very difficult for me to avoid coming into contact with people, if they die, they die, i cant just stay home.

    if you arent willing to take the trouble to walk outside very slowly, with your eyes paying very close attention to the ground, you should stay home!

    ants have rights too.

    PLEASE STOP THE HORRIFIC MURDER OF THE INNOCENT

    #624655

    Firstly, it wouldn’t be murder, it would be manslaughter- or, I suppose, antslaughter.

    Second, ants aren’t stupid; they stay away from feet. I have noticed that it is difficult to accidentally kill an ant because they can see the shadow of one’s feet and anticipate where and when they will descend. Granted, if one is trying to kill an ant it is possible, but my point is that accidentally killing ants doesn’t happen very often, in my experience. Anyway, as you pointed out, it is only two small areas of the foot that are in danger of killing ants, not the entire area of the foot.

    B’chol zot, nobody is pretending that ants have the same rights as people, but they are still God’s creatures and deserve our consideration. When I find an ant in my house, I let it crawl onto a piece of paper and take the paper outside, rather than simply killing it. (Ditto for spiders/beetles/etc.)

    #624656

    feivel:

    They’re QUITE hard to see.

    #624657

    To learn about PETA’s radical actions, vist http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ for a good idea.

    I don’t believe in PETA – I believe in moral treatment of non-human animals.

    #624658
    yoshi
    Member

    This conversation reminds me of that sunny day of me with my magnifying glass…

    #624659

    yoshi:

    You DIDN’T! How could you?

    #624660

    yoshi:

    Tell me you were a kid then…

    #624661
    squeak
    Participant

    GMAB is obviously QUITE a talmid chochom. Ants are QUITE hard to see, and you are walking anyway. On Shabbos, this would incur the ptur of Psik Raisha Dlo Nicha Leh, or Misasek. After all, no one here said that it’s OK to walk as you wish during the week, but that you need to be extra careful on Shabbos. Apparently, it is only killing if it is a “Harigas Machsheves”.

    Too bad only one person can be the kohen godol and wear bells on his hem…..

    #624662
    yoshi
    Member

    Give Me a Break – Don’t worry, the closest I came with any glass object to an ant, was when I took an empty fish tank and tried to make an ant farm. Long story short, I got grounded for digging up a huge hole in the front yard 😉

    #624663

    yoshi:

    Phew! And you had me thinking that you’d sizzled ’em!

    #624664

    When I was much younger, I used to keep my eyes trained on the ground as I walked to ensure that I stepped on ants or other insects now and then(especially beetles- they’re so nice and crunchy); however, now I know that there’s no need to do that because they don’t taste any good anyway so there’s no point.

    #624665

    torahls1:

    Ugh.

    #624666
    GILA
    Member

    ok…. very interesting you dont kill ants on purpose how would you feel if you were that ant

    #624667

    GILA:

    Dead.

    #624668
    Joseph
    Participant

    GMAB, where do they make characters like you?

    #624669

    Joseph:

    In the Tertiary Period in North America.

    #624670

    jewishfeminist02:

    “Yes, I do agree that animals should be treated ethically, but as stated before, I do not believe that PETA fulfills this purpose.”

    You have a very valid point, but it depends who you ask – many HAVE been influenced well by PETA. Nevertheless, I agree that much of their propagandizing is wrong and extremist, and, as you say, turns people off.

    #624672
    Zalman
    Participant

    gmab, vi alt bistu, un hustu kinder?

    #624673

    Zalman, would you mind translating for those of us who don’t speak Yiddish?

    #624674
    Pashuteh Yid
    Member

    Jfem, it roughly translates to, “Now that feminists have invaded YW, the world is coming to an end.” (It loses something in the translation.)

    #624675
    squeak
    Participant

    And if you read it backwards, it means the same thing in Portugeuse!

    #624676
    Bogen
    Participant

    Give gmab a break. Maybe he’s an alte bochor and doesn’t want to discuss…

    #624677

    Zalman:

    Why do you care how old I am, or if I have kids?

    jewishfeminist02:

    It means “Give Me a Break, how old are you? Do you have children?”

    #624678
    Zalman
    Participant

    gmab, because I care about you.

    #624679

    Zalman:

    Aw, that’s sweet. But what does my age or parental status have anything to do with anything?

    #624680
    Zalman
    Participant

    gmab, I mean that sincerely. I would like to take an interest in you and your mishpacha.

    #624681

    ANYWAYS, where was I? Oh yes. Animals deserve our respect, and yet we fail to give it to them. They should not be slaughtered and tortured as they are now.

    Zalman:

    You want to know about about my mishpacha? I’ll tell you about my siblings. I have four sisters and one brother.

    Sister #1 is two years younger than I am.

    Sister #2 is four years younger than am.

    Sister #3 is six years younger than I am.

    Sister #4 is eight years younger than I am.

    Brother is ten years younger than I am.

    That’s all you need to know.

    #624682
    Bogen
    Participant

    I get the strong sense that gmab is at home with his parents, behind their YeshivaNet controlled access, who have no idea what kind of mischief he is up to here. They feel safe with YeshivaNet, but gmab being the klieger kinnd he is, wants to show he can be up to no good even WITH that service.

    #624683

    Bogen:

    Oh? And I get the feeling that you’re at home alone in your apartment, having nothing better to do than make up stories about me.

    If you drew that “conclusion” from the fact that I wrote only about my siblings, it’s because my age, marital status, and parental status is of no business of “Zalman”‘s. But he so much wants to know about “the mishpacha” that I don’t want to leave him empty-handed.

    #624684

    Bogen:

    Oh? And I get the feeling that you’re at home alone in your apartment, having nothing better to do than make up stories about me.

    If you drew that “conclusion” from the fact that I wrote only about my siblings, it’s because my age, marital status, and parental status is of no business of “Zalman”‘s. But he so much wants to know about “the mishpacha” that I didn’t want to leave him empty-handed.

    #624685

    Bogen:

    I get the strong sense that you’re wrong.

    #624686
    mw13
    Participant

    gmab, i read your post on page one that says you support KILLING BABIES!!! if this wasn’t some sick joke, explain yourself!

    #624687
    yoshi
    Member

    I’m pro life!

    The, “it’s my body, my choice,” bit is sick. The fetus didn’t create itself. Take responsibility for your actions!

    But, I’m definitely a pro meat eater 🙂 mmm…

    #624688
    Bogen
    Participant

    gmab:

    All we have is conjecture with your secretive posture. But STILL, no need to get all bent out of shape and repeat yourself twice and respond 3 times to a simple thought.

    #624689

    Even supposing GMAB is “at home with his parents”, what difference does that make? He’s not doing anything wrong. If you knew that he were, say, forty-five years old, would you still say that he’s “up to no good”? Or are children and teenagers just not allowed to have independent thoughts and opinions?

    #624690

    Bogen:

    I repeated twice because I edited my post, and responded again because it wasn’t getting posted.

    mw13:

    I CERTAINLY don’t support killing babies – I support the right of a woman to abort an unborn fetus.

    yoshi:

    If you’re pro-life, shouldn’t you be pro- the life of innocent animals?

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