@purplehairlady
So much hypocrisy.
What's the difference between this and crushing male baby chicks as they have no use for the food industry (for those who are veggie) & other horrible practices in the animal food industry?
What's the difference between this and whipping horses during horse racing to make them go faster??
Hate how selective the British public is with animal cruelty!
Whilst I understand your thinking and feeling re this, your point is never going to work. Not by doing it in the way that you and other posters have tried.
Humans have hunted, farmed, processed and eaten meat for thousands of years. There is no getting away from that fact.
Alongside that, there are other species of animals that humans have fostered relationships with - in the very early days, because those animals provided a service (again, taking advantage of what they had to offer). And then moving into scenarios where the animal is more important than the service it once provided.
On the basic level, I completely understand your thinking. You are, essentially, right. But you aren’t going to change peoples minds by trying to convince on a thread like this.
This thread is about a domestic pet, supposedly “loved and cherished” by the family of the accused. People are going to be reacting in relation to their relationship with their own pets.
I think you do have valid points, but there need to be more threads regarding those issues. Trying to raise them on this type of thread can often result in a negative impact.
Does that make me a hypocrite? Yes, it does. But I’m not going to feel shite about standing up for an animal that is supposed to be part of a loving family and is then treated like shit.
Berating people for caring about something but not caring about other things is, in my mind, counter-productive. Hopefully, those caring feelings eventually lead elsewhere. But whataboutery on the subject of pets isn’t going to help things.