"What give's[sic] you the right to take that animal's life.[Sic]"
Among other things, the Holy Bible does, and I hold that law above that of any man or woman.
"I know you could[sic] care less what I have to write, but I had to get it off my chest."
If I didn't care what you had to write, then I wouldn't be responding to it now. Perhaps you feel better for having made your thoughts known - I know that I feel better now that I have again expressed mine.
"Yes, I also haven't eaten meat in 16 year's.[Sic] If I can save one animal's life than[sic] that make's[sic] me feel better. My sister also does not eat meat."
Okey dokey. Whatever turns you on, as long as it doesn't interfere with the lives and pursuits of other folks. It's not my place to try to talk you out of your decision, and I don't even want to. But I do wonder if you wear leather shoes, or use leather purses, belts, gloves, etc. You do realize that leather's original purpose was holding an animal's insides in, don't you?
Do you eat fish? Snatched from their native water, fish drown when brought into the air that we humans breathe (sounds cruel to some I suppose, but they sure do taste good to me).
How do you feel about killing mosquitoes? Rats? Mice? Cockroaches? Termites? Ants? Fleas? Head lice? What about the deer and other living creatures that the farmers who raise your vegetables kill, to prevent them from eating the crops before harvest time?
What about the critters that the trucks squash as they haul the harvest to market? The rodents and other pests that are purposely killed in the facilities that process, package, and sell your food? If one is going to be committed to preventing the deaths of living creatures, then one should at least try to be consistent about it.
The fact is, no one is blameless - we all cause the deaths of living creatures merely by existing here on earth. But the good news is that we don't have to feel guilty or ignoble about it, because controlling the populations of non-human living things is something that was commanded and sanctioned by God Himself!
- Russ Chastain
