Originally posted by: MichaelD
This thread makes me want to renew my LIFE membership in the NRA.
As has been very well said by rahvin and others; I don't condone, like, get off on the torture of animals.
Honestly, it bothers me to see them skinned while still twitching.
That said, I have no problem humanely killing animals and when dead, skinning them. There's no pain or suffering there.
We are at the top of the food chain, period. You may not like it, but no matter how you punch the buttons on the Weenie Softie Pussilator 5000, humans are still at the top of the food chain.
I have hunted, helped skin (yeah...I needed help b/c I didn't know where to cut) a deer and watched the carcass get butchered. It was pretty educational, actually. Most of the meat was eaten by my buddies' family. I got about 10 pounds of Deer Jerky out it...awesome stuff.
AFAIC, there's three groups of people with this animal thing.
Those that oppose killing animals for any reason at all, not even if it means them starving.
Those that completely support killiing animals for food and clothing, but doing it humanely (that's me)
Those that don't care if it's still completely alive, they'll bite into it, eat it, skin it and screw it (that would be many Bubbas and the 3rd world peoples depicted in the video at the top of this thread)
That's my take and tough noogies if you don't like it.