@am*3 wrote:About animals/birds not knowing any better.. that would cover treating a baby animal/bird or even a human baby badly/cruely right from birth and saying we aren't being cruel to them as they know no better.
Now you're thinking like me. That's where my mind is heading, and to other people in different countries living in different conditions. For example Afghani Muslim women, who by our standards appear to be oppressed and persecuted, yet they don't know any better, do they? So they may not feel persecuted or oppressed, even though we think that they shoul or are.
@crikey*mate wrote:
@am*3 wrote:About animals/birds not knowing any better.. that would cover treating a baby animal/bird or even a human baby badly/cruely right from birth and saying we aren't being cruel to them as they know no better.
Now you're thinking like me. That's where my mind is heading, and to other people in different countries living in different conditions. For example Afghani Muslim women, who by our standards appear to be oppressed and persecuted, yet they don't know any better, do they? So they may not feel persecuted or oppressed, even though we think that they shoul or are.
That is totally different and not comparable. They are not kept in small cages with 2 or 3 women in the same cage and never see daylight...physicall cruelty.
Different countries have allready banned caged hen farming... ALL of the EU countries, Switz and 7 States in the US.
Woolworths Aust are nowhere near the first ones to get on this bandwagon.
@freddie*rooster wrote:Tas, I didn't see your chicken picture I was off searching ebay for ruby red glass
in any case it wouldn't have bothered me, i'm not thin skinned.
As for the preference over caged eggs or free range eggs, think of it this way crikey wouldn't you prefer to eat a happy egg then a sad egg? Even if the chickens don't know any different we do, and our choice should be gauged by what we know. So my choice is a happy egg sunny side up poached with a runny yoke.
Crikey, that picture wasn't a sad picture it was a happy picture, (1) that treatment had finally ended. (2) Happy to be fortunate enough to have such wonderful people administering the treatment. (3) Happy to be alive.
OK?
Yeah, ok, but it still made me think about the journey you must have endured to get there. I couldn't have done that. That's a pretty amazing thing that you did and that you came out then other side and with such a brillant attituse about it.
I'm glad it's a happy pic for you. For me, I reckon if they had have used that on some cigarette packets, it would have made me give up a whole lot more qwuickly than I did. That's how big an effect that pic had on me.
Sorry.
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LOL - happy and sad eggs!
that's making me giggle, (in a good way)
I like eggs. I never thought how happy an egg was, just how they taste.
and yep, a perfectly poached egg with a rich flavoursome yolk just luxuriously oozing out to coat or accompany other food.
