Originally from: coleen
                        
Hi Hilary,

We can go on slaughtering animals until dooms day, but until we stop housing animals in over crowded, dirty, and inhuman conditions then nothing is ever going to change. The animals are the one's that pay the price for our mistakes. (Look how many Civic cats got destroyed because of the latest SARS cases). Easy to blame those that cannot speak..

We import some fifty thousands tons of chicken from these Countries – it turns my stomach just thinking about it – never mind eating it (which I do not). I am afraid I do not hold Thailand and other such Countries high on my list for animal welfare standards or health standards – but the meat comes flooding in and the consumer goes out and buys it.

I just hope that this bird flu never rears it's ugly head here in the UK, because unlike fmd this can and does kill people. That is worrying – there would probably not be a bird left (any bird) when this Government had finished!

I often wonder why we are looking at ways to visit the Moon and Mars, when we cannot even get living here on Earth right. We seem hell bent on self destructing in our greed and total lack of respect for any other life form.

Coleen