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Can culling of infected or unhealthy birds or animals be considered GENOCIDE?
Posted by syamanand • 12/05/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: culling, Genocide, religion, science, society
Dictionary meanings of culling
1. remove somebody or something as worthless: to remove an inferior person or thing from a group
2. select somebody or something: to select or gather people or things, especially those that are good examples of their kind
The following cases are culled from the police reports.
3. remove animal from herd: to remove an animal, especially a sick or weak one, from a herd or flock
User Comments
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Genocide is the killing of a race...from the Latin 'genus' meaning tribe/race.
Culling sick animals is not genocide because animals do not have a human-like society, so killing the sick is usually the only way to ensure the survival of the group at large.-
genus (latin) means birth, race or kind. So it does not seem to necessarily mean tribe/race, but rather only "one kind".
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The word is always used to denote differences in humans, not animals.
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Yeah, but tell that to PETA and see how they take it.-
I'm a vegan myself...PETA are morons!
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Mmhmm, the only thing I agree with PETA on is doing away with animal mills..You know, where puppies and cats are bred just to sell by the quantity, usually to pet stores. Just because they don't have a snowball's chance in hell at being healthy and normal, and who knows what type of diseases they might already have.
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I agree with PETA on many issues, but organisations like that make the normal people who hold those views look bad! There are a lot of animal rights groups that make things up to draw people's attention to animal rights, but that just degrades real issues...stupid people...
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