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Being against killing for pleasure is "out in left field"?

Ok.

In some parts of Africa for example, people unfortunately have to eat
whatever food is available. Most other people eat for "pleasure".

If people only ate an amount and type of food that was necessary for good
health (as dictated by nature), then we wouldn't collectively be so damn fat
(and getting fatter every day) and unhealthy.

David G Fisher

As a former and current investor I can say that pouring money into anything
can be likened to flushing dollar bills down the toilet.  However, it can
just as easily be compared with having the reserve bank keep ones bank
account continually topped up. One takes one's chances.

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Eat right, exercise, stay in shape...die anyway...<g>

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Never argue with an idiot.  He brings you down to his level, then beats you
with experience...
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The 'left field' comment was about your jump from talking about food to talking
about killing for pleasure.  Hey, I'm against 'sport' hunting, too.  If the
animals could use weapons too, *then* maybe it would be a sport...<g>

Eldred
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Really!!  Might as well enjoy your meals.  I'd sure hate to die for no
reason....<g>

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I don't find the MP3/Napster thing at all alarming, except for the
astounding lack of insight and intelligence it implies throughout the
music industry.

Napster shows there's a tremendous desire in the market for people to
increase their music collection, and to increase the variety of music
they listen to.  Two enourmously valuable trends in any market, but
things that the recording inducstry currently makes very difficult for
consumers to do. If they had HALF a brain they'd recognize the net as
a tool that could revitalize the recording industry. It's not a threat
unless you're too dumb to take advantage of it.

Just one example. The average CD-purchasing consumer spends $100 per
year on music CDs. So the record company could offer free downloads of
any songs you want for a subscription fee of $10/month, and increase
their revenue right there - while at the same time operating the
greatest marketing operation of all time, where your customers are
encouraged to continually sample all of your new products.

Joe McGinn
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I wholeheartedly agree. Hunting to survive is the unfortunate fact of life in
some places, albeit most of those peoples diets still depend principally on
vegetables.
Gorillas grow to 500lbs living in the same forests that humans sometimes live
in , and yet they live exclusively off of plants, so it is not like humans
would die without meat, its not a very efficient way of getting protein. It
would indeed be more sporting to at least go hunting with something less than a
rifle with a scope.

I must remember that the next time I feel a sense of deep satisfaction when
I swat a bothersome mozzie. I now see the light and will, instead, feel
deeply sorrowful.
In fact, I might simply berate it and shoo it outside.

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Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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Yes, I do apologise for my error.  I should have realised that corporations
such as Sony, Time-Warner, Disney, Lucas Films etcetera and so forth ad
infnitum are into music and movies simply for the soul-warming experience.

Sorry for the mistake.
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Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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Eat for "pleasure"???
Sure, eating can be a most pleasurable experience......but I would estimate
that about 100% of us eat to exist.
If you wish to lay blame for the fact that humans are essentially carnivores
then please refer to either nature, your God (if you believe in same) or
some higher intelligence.

But don't blame US!

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Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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Fork and salad bowl, perhaps? :-)

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Bruce Kennewell,
Canberra, Australia.
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That wasn't the point. In the US you, from necessity, eat cows, sheep,
pigs etc. In France they add horses, in Thailand they add dogs, in
Malaysia I've seen rat, monkey, bat, in Japan snake, whale ***
and various unsavoury parts of fish.

All out of necessity. In India you'd be strung up for eating a cow,
whereas you condemn a Thai for eating dog. Who is right and who is
wrong? You live by the rules of your country, and to judge someone
whose standards you don't understand by your own is the only thing
that's wrong.

In the west we tend not to eat cute things and get upset when others
do (dolphins, dogs, rabbits etc), but that doesn't make it wrong.

In general you'll find people in Asia a lot slimmer and healthier than
us over here in the west - so whose diet is wrong in that regard?
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John

Haha, the first time I stand in front of a hungry lion and he decides
not to rip me apart out of preservation of the human species I'll
become a vegetarian.

Darwinism got mankind to the point we are, and now we are "so
advanced" we throw Darwinism out the window. Survival of the fittest
is no longer a human trait. Whether for better or for worse is moot.

John

Necessity?

LOL.

People choose what they eat with selfishness, no self control, and gluttony
being the deciding factors.

David G Fisher

To hell with all of that. What do you think about F1 2000?

:-)

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