VickiP
Wise Old Thumper
Everything you say is VERY 'worth it'
Personally I think it very hypocritical to eat anything that one would not kill themself. IMO if one cant do the killing why do the eating ?
I think that's fair comment tbh however, practically speaking that is why rabbits get a bad deal, how many people who eat beef or pork can raise their own and slaughter them at home? Logistically it's impossible and even when/where possible it's highly unlikely you'd keep pets alongside your meat animals.
I'm out of this now because it is emotive for me having looked into the eyes of a californian that had a timeline for culling and looking into the eyes of a so called 'pet' a brown chocolate lop that was 'old' at 2 years of age and past her breeding her days so I know what her fate was likely to be given she was at the bottom of a stack with no hay in her own filth in the dark with a bucket of food blocking her view (which was dismal) anyway. It will haunt me for the rest of my life that it is allowed to happen - and it's all completely unnecessary, I suppose like anything when you see it rather than imagine what it's like it makes it a whole lot more sensitive.