I am totally fine with the eating of meat. I wish butchery was more humane (or that we could just grow meat in vats,) but I'm a human omnivore. An animal being killed to feed someone is different than animal being killed to make a point. It's not that the animal was killed. It's that it was killed for some silly,…

I'm not wild about the dissection of anything but volunteer cadavers (who hopefully volunteer BEFORE they are cadavers.) Killing a thing to learn from it is ugh. Though I will disclose that I have a pet rabbit, so my reaction to this is more visceral than if it were a frog. Still, I think the same thing, just less…

Oh, I never meant to accuse you of being callous — just the act of killing the rabbit to teach a lesson. Given that this is a biology, not a hunting/survival skills class, it's not the place to teach those sorts of skills (in NYC or Deliverance, Alabama,) nor should any living thing die just to teach a lesson.

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Why would I be interested in the relative humaneness of an unnecessary killing? It's not how quickly or cleanly the animal died to prove a point. It's that it died to prove a point at all. If you want kids to learn where their meat comes from:

As a dude, I find her very forgettable. Kim is the comeliest lass in that brood. And Kendall's the only Kardashian girl with long legs, which are sorta my deal. Pretty, but not even noticeably so for Los Angeles. I don't particularly dislike the Kardashians. (You wanna hate a rich family? Try the Waltons or Kochs.)…

And unlike the Teddy-Moose thing (is a stuffed moose called a Teddy Moose? Cuz I own one...) Obama holding the koala actually happened. That image is fake, sad to say.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

... well I'd guess we'd best hope Obama doesn't take it upon himself to fuck one?

Quite probably. Like I said, my gut says he's guilty. That makes me incredibly sad, because he's spent so long as a wondrous, uplifting entertainer. But my sadness about that is a drop in a very big, very full bucket compared to the actual pain he's (probably) caused actual people, and, to a lesser extent, the way…

Yeah yeah. Super tasteful. They lit some candles. Told the kids about the rabbit's life. Went for a soothing, blue light scheme. Everyone thanked the rabbit for its gift of meat. Then they all watched factory slaughterhouse footage to learn where their meat ACTUALLY COMES FROM, and realized just how lucky that bunny…

His silence is silence, Mr. (Ms?) Holmes. Coloring it as indicative of guilt or innocence is just a way of telling ourselves, "Oooh! Look how guilty he is! He's saying NOTHING!" And thereby saying nothing. Maybe he feels intense guilt? Maybe he's going for the appearance of refusing to dignify the allegations (or…

That Colbert spot was absolute comedy gold. A high-wire act from tip to tail, and hilarious. Watch the way Cosby goes from incoherent stream-of-consciousness to the lost-old-man reminiscing schtick to that utterly wonderful Morgan Freeman bit. Nevermind that he managed to completely judo Colbert's…

If you don't see a moral issue with how and why things are killed, you have trouble with this whole morality deal. If you're arguing this was one isolated instance, and was acceptable as such, I can see that. I think it's an ugly waste of life to teach a lesson people don't need, but fine. One time, whatever. If…

Because a bunch of teenagers aren't the least bit morbidly curious about watching something die. That request believably comes from a sincere scientific/ethical curiosity.

Oy. Killing a live animal just to teach a lesson (unless the class is Butchery or Hunting 101) should not "be done." It is neither a skill everyone needs, nor a moral lesson that can be taught by doing something immoral. And yes, it's just as bad with a fish. Don't kill things to make points.

You don't even need to own a farm or live near nature to know where the animal flesh you eat comes from. From animals. That likely can't regrow their muscle after generously handing it over And if the argument is, "They know, but they don't KNOW," there are better ways to teach them: extant documentaries on the…

That was what we in the biz of reading nuance call a joke. No, kids should not be committed for being blase in a slaughterhouse. They should just be tagged with a little cjip that shocks them every time they wonder what the dog's brains would look like splattered on a wall. Because they're probably sociopaths.

God that show was a font of awesome lines. Here's basically the same sentiment, expressed by a great goddamn American... well, another one. Woody's pretty rad.

"If you're feeding your kid meat, they should know where it comes from!" So show 'em a slaughterhouse movie. That's where their meat comes from. Killing an animal just to make a point — to a bunch of kids who, I promise you, all know where meat comes from — is such grandstanding fuckery. I'm not personally bothered by…

Yeah, I'm with you. Bettin' these kids don't tend to eat much hand-killed lagomorph. You want them to know where their food comes from? Take them to a Foster Farms killing floor (have the ones who show no emotional reaction quietly committed.)

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