The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.