Comments on: Cruelty-Free Living

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:05:21 +0000

It is possible to try and live a cruelty free life, your literal definition of it is stupid.
To say you’ve stepped on a bug so you can’t be cruelty free is your easy way out of trying, occasionally we might make a mistake like that but on my part it wasn’t intentional. Its just an excuse to say that and people end up saying well why even bother!
It would be a step in the right direction to buy slightly ‘less’ cruel products like wild game but its still too cruel.
There could be so little cruelty in this world if everybody bought carefully and people weren’t so lazy.
To be honest we could maximize the cruelty free living till their was almost none (except for the odd bug which might be killed by accident) but people don’t want to because they love their materialistic lifestyles with their cars, holidays, iphones, ready meals and make up and want to live in a pretty painted house full of cheap wood furniture and plastic nik naks.
Its true, virtually all of us are guilty of it, but there is really no excuse for it. We are supposed to be the most intelligent species but we don’t act like it!
Also it would be better not to eat meat because food for a few vegetarians might take some land and water, but it takes far more land and much more water to raise animals and grow food for them too!
Alot of the problems with the environment are caused by man messing with the it in the first place and will not be sorted by eating some people eating wild raised game.
Your article needs alot more research, but i guess your telling people what they want to hear. ~ “Do a bit here and there, because theres no point in bothering any more than that!”

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:58:19 +0000

"....we could raise meat with less cruelty"

...and then slaughter it.

You make a lot of fantastic points but, but however you dress it up, killing's still killing, and it's not needed

By: B Nelson

B Nelson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:24:15 +0000

NO SOY is raised for “grass based” or “pasture raised” cattle… I am NOT a supporter of “FEEDLOT” raised cattle, and never will be.
If everyone cut down the AMOUNT of meat they ate, we could raise meat with less cruelty.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:13:16 +0000

“Massive deforestation has taken place simply to raise vegetables”
People often cite this as soybean acres, for example, have risen dramatically in recent years at the expense of rain forests. But the largest portion of those soybeans (and other new grain growth) is to feed livestock, not to grow vegetables for human appetites. The earth cannot support this level of livestock farming and by association the amount of meat eaten. Eating “wild caught game” occasionally is not going to solve this problem, but going vegetarian will…