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question for animal rights people/fear factor show
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Posted by: newsposter

I can't watch the portions of the show with the bugs but my wife has a steel stomach so I just look thru the tivo board while she is watching. Yea, I admit it!

What do the animal rights people think about eating live bugs? I guess they aren't technically animals but you get the drift. And don't those things crawl around in you? ewww

Posted by: Tracy

Once you chew them up they don't crawl around anymore!

Posted by: loopey

Did you see what they ate tonight? Ugh, much worse than bugs.

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)
live snails

Posted by: Pablo

(1) Telling people to stop eating insects does not upset the middle/upper class.
(2) Telling people to stop making clothing from insects does not upset the middle/upper class.
(3) Telling people to stop killing insects does not make you appear to be more compassionate.
(4) Nobody can stand roaches running around in their house.

Therefore, nobody protests killing/eating insects. :D

Posted by: spartanstew

quote:
Originally posted by newsposter
What do the animal rights people think about eating live bugs?

I don't see how one has anything to do with the other.

Stew

Posted by: newsposter

quote:
Originally posted by spartanstew
I don't see how one has anything to do with the other.

Stew

put another way: do the things they eat on there have a right to live or can we kill them just for our pleasure? i guess you can liken it to everything else living on this earth we kill. i was just wondering if the people that care about animal test, minks for fur, steer for beef, chicken for chicken etc thought it was just as bad them killing bugs etc on FF? or if the bugs are of such a different 'animal' that they differentiate and it's ok to kill them at will for the american's viewing pleasure?

Posted by: sieglinde

Note that most environmental campaigns use cute animals though there are only a tad bit over 200 Pup Fish on the planet and they are all located in a deep cavrine in Death Valley CA. So the campaigns usually have nothing to do with the reality of what needs to be preserved.

I think the animal rights people operate the same way. I have never heard of a protest against the plunging of various live shell fish into boiling water in order to cook them. I think the lower life forms don't get the attention. We can identify with how cattle are brought to slaughter because they are mammels but don't care for the lower life forms.

Posted by: Groucho

Animal Rights people are only interested in saving cute fluffy animals. Eat all the bugs and snails you want.

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

It sort of bothers me, but then again I'm an atypical animal rights person-I actually eat meat on occassion, have differing views on animal rights than most and am not very vocal about my feelings. What actually bothers me more than anything is when they make them root around in cattle brains and spinal fluid, which has happened at least once. That's a great way to contract the disease that's better known as mad cow disease and which I can't remember the name of this early.

Posted by: newsposter

quote:
Originally posted by sieglinde
Note that most environmental campaigns use cute animals though there are only a tad bit over 200 Pup Fish on the planet and they are all located in a deep cavrine in Death Valley CA. So the campaigns usually have nothing to do with the reality of what needs to be preserved.

I think the animal rights people operate the same way. I have never heard of a protest against the plunging of various live shell fish into boiling water in order to cook them. I think the lower life forms don't get the attention. We can identify with how cattle are brought to slaughter because they are mammels but don't care for the lower life forms.

well said and I get it now, it's all in what creature gets the best press... I forgot about all those poor live lobsters in boiling water. Call PETA now! The hypocrites are probably at a surf and turf dinner right now LOL

Posted by: rickertk

quote:
Originally posted by YCantAngieRead
It sort of bothers me, but then again I'm an atypical animal rights person-I actually eat meat on occassion, have differing views on animal rights than most and am not very vocal about my feelings. What actually bothers me more than anything is when they make them root around in cattle brains and spinal fluid, which has happened at least once. That's a great way to contract the disease that's better known as mad cow disease and which I can't remember the name of this early.

In cows, the disease is BSE (bovine spongiform encephalitis). In humans, its vCJD (variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease).

Keith

Posted by: zaknafein

quote:
Originally posted by Groucho
Animal Rights people are only interested in saving cute fluffy animals. Eat all the bugs and snails you want.

Yep. It's the "save the whales, screw the tuna" mentality.

Posted by: newsposter

quote:
Originally posted by zaknafein
screw the tuna" mentality.

so is that why my chunk tuna isn't chunky anymore? it's just one big mush anymore in the can