by Gladring 19 Replies latest watchtower bible
According to the article in the Dec 2011 Awake
Although
man was eventually permitted to use them for
food and other practical purposes, God never
sanctioned cruel treatment of them.
Are they serious?
Killed them in the flood, in the 10 plagues, all of the animals in Jericho. ... I really can't be botthered going on with the list.
An observation of the natural world reveals unlimited animal suffering (and violence) on an epic scale.
So, the Jews basically slit the throats of animals and let them bleed to death. This is a long death, folks. Whereas, we now just hit the cows head with a stun gun, causing massive injury and instant death. If God cared about the animals, he would have invented a stun gun for the Jews to use.
Skeeter
Not to mention that fact that 99% of all species that have ever lived have gone EXTINCT. Nature is based on two things: predation and parasitism. Neither fits the pretty, Bambi-fied picture that the Society likes to portray. Strange how the WT has never had an article about the wonders of the endoparasitic ichneumon wasp.
So--no worse off than for people?
And the lion will lay down with the puppa dog and always have delicious treats and nummy snacks.
Muhammad (having a dog indoors voids part of your reward in the afterlife) and Charles Russell (1900 on the timeline at the next link) didn't like puppa dogs. Hundreds of perfectly useless ethically arbitrary Mosaic laws about clothes, food, and animals to copy, and Muhammad had to make one up about puppa dogs. I think Muhammad shall have been a fool. Etc., etc., etc.
God did too sanction cruel treatment of them.
Leviticus is full of horrible things you can do with animals' insides.
Splash blood
Burn fat
Make clothes from the skins
Eat meat
What about the scapegoat?
cadelin=oops
A Parasitic yet Useful Wasp
TRUE, the ichneumon wasp is strange looking, almost frightening. But why is it labeled parasitic? Because it usually propagates by laying an egg on or in the larva of another insect or a spider.
In North America there are more than 3,000 species of true ichneumon wasps. These wasps, in turn, are part of a large family of different types of parasitic wasps. Scientists estimate that worldwide more than 40,000 species belong to this insect family.
Ichneumon wasps vary in size from about an eighth of an inch to two inches [0.3 to 5 cm] long. Their slender, curved abdomen is longer than the head and thorax together. Ichneumons are different from stinger wasps in that they have longer antennae.
The most distinguishing feature of ichneumons is a needlelike tube at the end of the abdomen. Called an ovipositor, this egg-laying structure is often longer than the body. It is no thicker than a horsehair and has three threadlike strands that slide back and forth to force the egg down the tube.
How does the ichneumon detect the larva of a potential host? The female Megarhyssa wasp, a genus of ichneumon, has been observed tapping a tree with her antennae to pick up vibrations of a larva living an inch [2 cm] or more beneath the tree bark. Once she senses that there is a larva, she intensifies the tapping. Eventually, she begins to probe into the bark with the tube, as if drilling into it.
Observers have noted: "Once the tip of the wasp's ovipositor touches the larva, a single egg is squeezed down the tube, to be planted next to, or on top of, the doomed host." When the egg hatches, the new larva feeds on the host larva's fats and body fluids. Then it spins a silken cocoon in which it will develop into an adult wasp. When the wasp reaches the surface of the tree, it is ready to plague a new generation of insects.
Although one may describe this insect group as ruthless parasites, ichneumon wasps serve an important purpose. Their larvae feed on insects that are harmful to food crops, including chinch bugs, boll weevils, codling moths, and asparagus beetles, to name a few. So ichneumons evidently control the proliferation of agricultural pests.
Even though ichneumons are very numerous, they are seldom seen by people because they generally feed, breed, and lay eggs in habitats seldom visited by humans. Ichneumons thus serve as another example of the diversity and balance of living things that man has yet to comprehend fully.
if you can't deny it exists, make it beneficial. LOL
Ichneumons thus serve as another example of the diversity and balance of living things that man has yet to comprehend fully.
Yet . .
Although one may describe this insect group as ruthless parasites, ichneumon wasps serve an important purpose. Their larvae feed on insects that are harmful to food crops, including chinch bugs, boll weevils, codling moths, and asparagus beetles, to name a few. So ichneumons evidently control the proliferation of agricultural pests.
Evidently, the wt has all the answers, even when "man" doesn't. And the difficult cases, such as ichneumons preying on spiders that also help control insects, are simply disregarded.
