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Maybe just stop eating dogs eh?
Just as valid as eating a pig.
(However valid you think that is)
People typically don't eat their pets. Regardless if dog or pig.
Depends on how you view the food chain. If you're against eating mean for environmental reasons, carnivores are much more unethical then eating herbivores.
I've never understood the idea of farming carnivores for meat because of how much more costly the process must be.
Dogs and pigs are both omnivores
Dogs can live fine on a vegetarian diet, and pigs will happily eat meat or predate. They're both highly social omnivores. Most likely, they get the same kind of food when farmed, too.
The comparison gets more difficult to prove with cows, and a lot more difficult for chickens. But, a pig is almost the same animal ecologically, and people have pet pigs that live in their house just like a dog.
expand that to all animals and you're really on to something
You say that like plants don't die when we eat them too
genius.
There's a massive difference of plants growing in fields and being cut down to animals being kept in their own shit where they can't even turn around for years.
Oh and you know what kills more plants? It being grown for animal feed.
Then fuck right off these discussions. That's right, you heard me. If you hate this planet so much then seek help or at least don't get in the way of people who care.
So if they're kept in an open field with plenty of space to roam about it's fine right?
get real
Not to mention how much agriculture itself kills wildlife
What's the majority of agricultural land used for again? Oh right, cattle feed and grazing.
Actually yea, I forgot that
While not getting into whether we should eat meat at all, if we are eating meat, I don't see how eating dog meat is any more or less immoral than eating most other meats. Eating someone's pet, whether it be a dog or a pot belly pig is a shit move, but I doubt the restaurant was told they were buying someone's pet.
I can't think of any animal that has such an innate empathetic connection to humans as dogs. Dogs can read us, and we can read them.
I find it strange how you’re getting downvoted, since there’s so much evidence to back up your point. There’s literally a whole page on Wikipedia that goes over the human-canine bond and how it’s unique.
Some points it brings up:
I started on 8 upvotes it's been a tremendous journey
A study can find practically find any correlation it wants based on its premises. Studies have also found that sugar based diets are better than fat based ones. But neither are very convincing on telling about how to proceed on a specific issue.
You've never had a friend chicken. God damn are chickens cute, friendly animals if you keep one as a pet. Almost makes me feel bad eating them, all animals are empathetic if you spend some time with them.
Can you read a cat, does a cat read you?
You should not justify animals rights not to be slaughtered by their connection to humans.
Pigs are deeply empathic, horses read humans very well, and whales have complex family systems. The division "cute animals" and "edible ones" is just a cultural construct to avoid the moral atrocity.
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this is absolutely it, people feel they have deep connections to their pets and that the experience of other animals must be shallow and meaningless by comparison, its a sample issue and a cultural bias.
Wild dogs don't, and some people don't have any interest in an empath9c connection with dogs. After that, most animals are deeply interested in their own survival.
Wild dogs are very scary
Some "domestics" are scary too
No, you anthromorphize and project on them, but you don't read them. They are an animal and we have no way of knowing what they think. What we have is a cultivated relationship through years of selective breeding, same as could be done with plenty of animals given the reason and time.
I'm glad you love your pet, but you don't know if they love you. You assume based on human projection, forgetting they are not human.
Now add human into that sentence
Which one? They wrote two sentences.
it's a safety concern. Cannibalism spreads diseases easier.
Human meat, much like rabbit meat, can cause "rabbit starvation" so I suppose that's another reason. Plus people get their panties in a wad if you start talking about eating other people for some reason. I personally think there's plenty of fat billionaires I would not mind eating.
Nah cannibalism is cringe
Kill the billionaires and turn them into corpse fertilizer instead!
So does the gigantic animal industry we have today.