08/12/19

Q204: Why do people slaughter animals?

For many reasons. For a huge variety of reasons and in a huge variety of ways.

The worst are poachers in Africa who kill rhinoceroses just to cut off their horns to collect big money, like $10,000 a kilo from buyers who believe that ground up rhino horn is good medicine for many sicknesses and makes men have better sex. And worse still, maybe soon, the only rhinos left will be in captivity (the rhino horn is made of keratin – the same stuff as our hair and fingernails!) Better sex from keratin-rubbish!

Next: some Asian tigers are killed for their body parts, which are regarded as good medicine and are readily bought by herbalists in Asia for sale.

In more civilised countries cattle, sheep, lambs, goats, camels, horses, fish and such are killed for meat to sell in the local butchers shop and supermarkets for pets and people. Some people just hate the trade and refuse to eat meat.

Japan slaughters thousands of Minkie whales each year; maybe that’s what you are thinking about. That ‘slaughter’ causes many people to be unhappy. So the ‘Sea Shepherd Society’ gathers money from caring people and go down into the Southern ocean with a ship or two to harass (bother) the Japanese whaling ships and cause the Japanese to kill a lot fewer whales. The Japanese say that they are killing the whales for: “scientific purposes.” Not many believe them.

Jesus ate lamb and fish. Before Jesus came the Jews killed cattle, sheep, lambs and goats as a sacrifice to God for their sins. Strict methods as to how, are written in the Bible. And most of them were eaten for food too.

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