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Old 01-18-2013, 09:50 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Cowperson View Post
I imagine Shellfish feel pain when they're being crushed in the jaws of a natural predator as well.

One summer night about 4 a.m., with the windows of our rural home open to the weather, Mrs. Cowperson and I were awakened to some nearby, horrible, agonized screaming (no other way to describe it) . . . . . the death throes of a deer or elk being slowly dismantled by a predator. This went on and on and on . . . . .not nice by far, but a natural event nonetheless.

That's the food chain baby. Humans are predators.

Cowperson
And humans are of greater intelligence and are cognicent that causing pain is wrong. Further, animals have no other means to survive where as you and I both do.
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