The Killing of Animals in its many aspects

[Brigliadore]

Originally posted by godwulf
"Ok' with you, with many others, maybe even with me, if I were hungry enough and there was no other food available...my question, I guess, is "Don't the animal's feelings count for anything?"

Now I am not saying animals don't have feeling because I believe they do but, What Feelings? A hunter goes out he stalks the deer for an hour. The deer does not know he is there, or else it would be long gone by then. He gets close enough, he aims, he shoots, he kills the deer. God willing he aimed well and the deer died almost instantly. Where does the deers feelings come into this? Did the deer want to die? I don't know I'm not a deer, but maybe he did, maybe he was depressed because he couldn't get a female deer and food was scarce that year. Maybe he was a happy deer who just wanted to live his little deer life and not be killed. Or maybe (and I am not saying this is true as I don't know) the deer is too dumb to have any idea how good or bad his life is. Maybe all he does is go on instinct i.e; eat, sleep, run from danger, mate, go to the bathroom.
Rereading the above comments it occurs to me that it comes off a little sarcastic, that is not my intent. I am simply trying to understand from your point of view where the animals feelings come into this.
I was raised on a farm, so my point of view on this type of thing comes from how I was raised. Cows were raised to be eaten, chickens to be eaten or to lay eggs, etc. Every animal had a purpose growing up and I was taught to respect what that animal was intended to be used for. Because of that upbringing I don't have a problem with a hunter going out and killing a deer and then taking it home and eating it. I was taught to treat the animals in my care kindly and fairly until it was time for them to fulfill the purpose then were meant to. So because my point of view is skewed by how I was raised I have to ask you to elaborate on what feelings the animals might have in that situation.

EDIT:Stupid spell checker wasn't smart enough to know what I meant rather then what I typed