Comments on: Animal Welfare Activists Say Pets Being Slaughtered For Meat In Zimbabwe

By: nora

nora — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:50:31 +0000

It is a shame the dogs and cats have to live there at all if they are now nothing more than a food source. They are entirely at humans mercy or disposal. The corrupt and greedy government doesn’t even care about it’s own humankind. What a disgusting and scary way to have to live. We are so blessed here in the U.S.A. and we should thank God everyday!

By: Traci

Traci — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:56:15 +0000

Lynn,

I would like to sit here and say no matter what, I would never eat my pets. But, then, I say that living here. I really believe that I wouldn’t and, if I did, the guilt would last a then guilt-ridden lifetime; but I say that being well-fed and not brought to my most basic survival instincts by starvation. Look what happened in the Potato Famine, stories abound of family members eating their deceased kin–and I can easily see it moving to people killing people as Gindy says (first, preyed upon outcasts and weak and, then, battles to the death).

Should they be euthanized? What is the future of all those animals now? Starvation or feeding the starving. I would say whether or not they are eaten it would be better to kill them painlessly. Ideally, they would all be airlifted along with their starving humans but we know that isn’t going to happen in the real world (look at Rwanda and how beings are abandonned to suffer by prosperous nations who would rather spend billions making war and stuffing the pockets of corporations). At this point euthanasia would be the kindest in a country that is one straw away from total collapse and largescale famine. I say that as I get ready to head up to a no-kill rescue to help with evening meds.

By: Gindy

Gindy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:17:26 +0000

Moony don’t even go there.
Please, they’d give their lives for humans. HA! A lot of humans I know and read about are less worthy of life than the animals they eat from the grocery store meat counters.

Many cultures eat what we consider pet animals.
Having been to a small Spanish village, there were freshly killed small dogs and cats hanging up for all to see and buy. Not me, as I am a vegetarian, but there didn’t seem to be a big freak out about it.
And China, oh my if you love animals never go there… you will want to nuke the whole country.
A pet is only a pet if you are not starving, then it is food. For heaven’s sake, people kill people and eat them when the situation arises.

By: Moony

Moony — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:19:21 +0000

Except euthanizing so many presents another problem - disposal and contamination of the environment which is still needed to try and grow crops and feed cattle, etc. And honestly, as bad as it sounds, I think the animals would gladly give their lives to sustain their humans if they knew that was the reason they were being killed.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:46:25 +0000

Thanks, Traci. Sometimes we get so caught up in our own little world that we fail to see how bad things are elsewhere.

There may be laws about slaughtering animals, but when people are hungry they won’t give a damn about breaking them. I have to wonder if they won’t reach a stage [if they haven’t already] where pets will be stolen and slaughtered.

This situation presents so many different animal and human issues. One isue comes up in my mind and I wonder what your views are.

How do you feel about donating money to veterinarians so they can buy drugs to humanely euthanize the animals that have been turned in?

By: Traci

Traci — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:39:54 +0000

http://allafrica.com/stories/200708170597.html