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Compassionate Killing?
Tom Hodgkinson, a pig farmer, tells us his experience at killing the pigs
he raised. According to him, killing animals for food is not murder, but
justifiable homicide. Although his pigs died relatively without pain (they
were shot in the head), Hodgkinson related feeling tenderness towards the
animals when they were killed, as well as sadness and gratitude. Once a
vegetarian for 10 years, Hodgkison believes eating meat from animals raised
in small scale farms, and humanely killed, is a compassionate act.
It’s hard to see compassion in the act of killing a young, healthy animal
for the sole purpose of taste, and not survival. We, humans, are very adept
are rationalizing our actions, in order to suppress the tugging of our
conscience. Compassion is seen when we spare the life of God’s animals and
choose a plant-based diet, which not only benefits these animals, but also
our health, the poor and the hungry, and the environment.
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