| >> Am I so wrong in the assumption, that if someone claims to love something, he won't hurt it? In principle, maybe. In practice, we're really good at dealing with contradictory and even conflicting emotions. For instance, in the past people used to beat up their kids to teach them things. Today, we generally don't- but that's not because we love our kids any more, or less. We just find it unproductive. So, yes, it's perfectly possible to dearly love an animal and want to eat it- because, after all, that's why we keep farm animals in the first place: to kill them and eat them (and also for their milk, wool, eggs etc). The relationship that makes us love animals is the same one that makes us kill and eat those same animals. Edit: >> A mother loses her child (calf), a sister her brother, just because there is someone who wants to eat him/her/it? If we didn't do that something else would. Animals kill and eat each other all the time and most of them die when something else eats them. Of course we're special- but even in our specialness we can only subsist on food that is alive- if it's not a calf, it's an egg that cold have hatched into a chicken, or a fruit that could have grown in a beautiful plant. Calfs and lambs can scream and run away but a cabbage is no less alive. |