Originally posted by Shuckins
You big city folk really ARE divorced from the natural world aren't ya.
You've got nothing against enjoying a well-cooked ribeye or rack of lamb. And after dinner you'll sit around in your ascots, pick your teeth, and discuss the evils of shooting these cute little furry critters by people whose business it is to raise the beef that you're digesting.
If I had my way no one would be allowed to eat meat unless they killed it themselves. That might remove that supercilious look from your faces.
Those rodents are vermin. I regularly exterminate rats and mice in my home to keep them from eating the insulation off my wiring and burning the house down around me while I sleep. If I can't do the job myself, I hire an exterminator. But I bet you guys practice trap and release...to feel good about yourselves...and cart the little buggers off elsewhere so they'll be some stranger's problem.
Perhaps it is somewhat hypocritical to eat meat and not kill it yourself. I'm as guilty of that hypocricy as anyone.
If these vermin are destroying your crops, then that is not a bad thing in my opinion. Killing mice inside my house is not a bad thing either, they endanger the health of my family by crapping all over the place and carrying nasty parasites.
Killing animals for the pure "fun" of doing so is a completely different story.
Those of you who cannot see the difference probably enjoyed using a magnifying glass to burn ants when they were kids, or seeing how far you could kick a toad, or poking the eyes out of stray cats etc.
It says a great deal about the kind of person you are and how you simply haven't grown up yet.
...and by the by...getting back to the subject matter of the thread Buddists believe in reincarnation. If you think you have an inner Buddha you might want to stop and think about that little tid-bit.
