Don’t you think it’s incredible how people do mad of cats or dogs are not treated like kings, yet pigs and other animals they have no concern for ?

[Lardlizard]

? Esp when pigs are actually relaly intelligent
What I mean is you will see and hesralot ofpeoplw getting up in arms about dogs say not being walked twice a day

Yet there’s no concern for how there sausages came to be in their plate and how that pig has been treated

Why is this ? BecauE they are not furry or something. ?
I get that people are not used to having pigs in the house but it seems strange toexlect some animals to be treated with such high regard yet not others

I prefer that the pigs I eat have had a good life.

Me too

Pigs are arseholes, intelligent lovely loud arseholes but of course they should be treated right, same as all animals.
Think the problem is people have a lot more connection with dog/cats as they see them every day, there's quite a large disconnect now with how the plastic wrapped pork chop arrives in tesco and the living conditions associated with meat that cheap.

It bothers me a lot. I hate the hypocrisy.

Totally agree.

And it’s not enough to say the animals people eat should have a good life. The question is, why eat them at all? What gives us the right to end another being’s life?

And our meat habit is incredibly damaging for the environment.

What gets me the most is when people go on about how CUTE lambs are blah blah, only to gobble them up later in the year.

And veal. We eat our fellow animals’ babies. It is no different from our children being eaten.

But veal (rose) is a byproduct of the milk industry. Do you use dairy products?

I rather like the taste of lamb and of pork, I'd have no objection to eating dog, cat or horse on a moral level. I do want good standards of animal welfare within the industry of course. However, you shouldn't infer human emotional and intellectual characterise on to animals, "eating babies" for goodness sake!
Why do we have the right to kill and eat? The same reason that a cat kills a bird or rodent, because we are a predator. We have just learned it's easier to house the prey. People obviously have the right to feel differently, they are free not to eat meat or eggs or drink milk, I just wish they would stop preaching.

It’s staggering to think that worldwide 600 chickens are slaughtered every second to provide us with food.

And veal. We eat our fellow animals’ babies. It is no different from our children being eaten.

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Read the biological food chain, it may help you.

I agree completely. Hence why I'm vegetarian. If I was to eat meat however, I would see no difference between eating a cat/dog or a cow or pig.

We have pet cows. We treat them very well indeed thank you very much.

It’s staggering to think that worldwide 600 chickens are slaughtered every second to provide us with food.

Eating chickens is the one animal that I will never feel guilty about eating. Stupid animals that will peck and eat anything and everything, if you fainted in a pen you would wake to have half your face pecked off.

The reason we treat cats and dogs differently is because cats and dogs (dogs especially) offer companionship.

Couldn't agree more and that's why I'm vegan.
Captain, surely an animal's level of intelligence has nothing to do with whether it is morally acceptable to eat it? Most dogs aren't the most intelligent creatures.
Not just that, very few people realise that chickens have the absolute worst lives of the lot due to that very mentality of 'they're only poultry'. Locked up in cages for most of the time (even if it says free range), bred to lay eggs every day in stressful conditions, and don't get me started on the male chicks born who are either thrown in the grinder alive at one day old or crushed to death on the floor by people in the factories treading on them. Sadly, it's probably a kinder situation than the females have to endure.

People can do all kinds of horrible things to animals by distancing themselves and not identifying with them. I have friends who are animal rights' activists but don't see fish as sentient beings, I guess because they are wet and not furry.

People can be horrible to other people by 'othering' them too- not seeing them as fully human. This is how genocide and slavery are possible.

Let’s not compare a chicken to a dog. I’ve worked in a place where they kept free ranged chickens as pets, they are stupid filthy things who like to peck their “weak” to death. I hate them.

Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t be needlessly cruel to one but I feel no guilt in eating one.