is it ok to kick a cat?

Jesus this thread is vile. Cats are ****ing adorable

Ever seen someone drown a kitten? I have.

OK to kick a cat. The PC brigade at work again....

Of course it is. It's not as though it's a person, who cares what pain an animal feels, not many are complaining when they're sinking their teeth into a beef (albeit not cat) burger.

No, he is attempting to draw a comparison between pointless and cruel animal abuse, and eating your dinner. Meat is important to the diet and it's not like slaughterhouses ritually abuse their animals or try to make them suffer. The point of slaughtering is quick and preferably painless death. These animals were reared to be eaten and while I don't exactly love the idea of them being killed, if they don't suffer then that is a good point at least, and it provides us with meat and nutrition in our diet. Kicking a cat is an entirely unrelated act to killing animals for meat, it is stupid and cruel and to attempt to draw a comparison is foolish.

No, he is attempting to draw a comparison between pointless and cruel animal abuse, and eating your dinner. Meat is important to the diet and it's not like slaughterhouses ritually abuse their animals or try to make them suffer. The point of slaughtering is quick and preferably painless death. These animals were reared to be eaten and while I don't exactly love the idea of them being killed, if they don't suffer then that is a good point at least, and it provides us with meat and nutrition in our diet. Kicking a cat is an entirely unrelated act to killing animals for meat, it is stupid and cruel and to attempt to draw a comparison is foolish.

I don't think it matters to the cow whether you, in your very modern compassionate way, make the philosophical distinction between killing for food and general animal cruelty i.e. killing for fun.

Thats what we, the genral public think. I have seen documentries on this, free range animals on small farms live ok, but on the larger farms it is industralised, and its not just chikens, even pigs are treated in this way, locked up in small pens.

The footage they showed was shocking, chikens cramped in a barn shoulder to shoulder in the dark, walking in their own crap, meaning they get burns on there feet, they are grown in a way that makes them grow real fast, to dast infact. Their legs can not support their weight and break.

As for pigs, once they give birth they are put in a pen so tiny they cant even move, for many months the justificaton is so that they cant squahs their young if they rold over, depsite the fact that they get by just fine in fields outdoors.

The death may be quick and painless, but the life is litraly torture, if you where to put your cat through what these farm animals go thorugh, and the RSPCA found out, you could be in prision now.

I accept that many animals are poorly treated and I wish it wasn't happening. I don't know how to explain it other than some people are just plain cruel. I don't agree with bad treatment of animals in any situation, personally.

that sounds so much like a disclaimer!

"bunthulhu does not condone or in anyway agree with the mistreatment of animals"

So? We as humans are lucky enough to have enough intelligence to distinguish between the two, and it's a shame if people are so idiotic that they still go round needlessly causing animals to suffer (by kicking cats, for example).

Huh? I still don't see why it is more acceptable to kill and eat an animal than it is to kick one.

Huh? I still don't see why it is more acceptable to kill and eat an animal than it is to kick one.