Pepsi Man wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:45 am
You have canines for a reason. Cutting back on meat is fine. Personally, I believe killing more than you can use is where you draw the line.
Cutting meat out because some chicken has an instinctive reaction to painful stimuli is actually retarded. That chicken isn't your loyal dog. Those pigs will actually eat you, if given the chance. That herd of cows will trample you and not even realize they've done it.
Animals don't care about you. Sometimes even the ones you take care of don't. Stop putting human characteristics onto them.
Pretty much this but also keeping in mind to not put negative human characteristics into them either. Pigs are no playthings. That female swine will absolutely fuck your shit up if it's got piglets. There's no malice in that, though.
Many people around here have chicken. They are very easy to keep. You'll always have fresh, delicious eggs if you let them roam around and you have very little work. You'll be very grateful for those chicken every day. I don't see that as an abusive relationship at all. They get to have a comfy life, you get great eggs.
But when a hen is growing really old, it's time to slaughter it. Why have it get all the issues of old age and then pass away after a possibly long time of suffering when you can instead make a fantastic soup out of it?
If it was your dog, that'd be a different situation. You keep that dog for companionship and you're only going to euthanise it when it's only going to suffer if you don't.
But that chicken isn't there for that reason. You have a deal with it. It gets to live long and comfortable in security and when the time comes it's going to become soup. Husbandry is the reason why both of you currently exist in the first place. You wouldn't be here, the chicken wouldn't be here. There's no malice involved. You didn't look forward to getting to kill your hen that gave you all those eggs for all those years, the hen is blissfully unaware of the situation. You just do the most logical thing and in the end you and the hen have greatly benefited from the situation.
I get the whole argument about mass animal keeping in an unethical manner being a problem. The root of that isn't husbandry. The root of it is there being well too many people. Same with pollution and such. Everyone honestly knows that.
That's really my main problem with PETA motherfuckers. They hate people just as much as I do. I'm just more honest and don't have to pretend that I have a publicly acceptable ethical reason for it. I'm also not afraid to get to the necessary conclusion that we really should euthanise millions and millions of people ASAP.
But I don't run things. The majority wants to pretend like that's not the actual problem and will happily ruin everything while avoiding the harsh reality. Fine by me. When shit finally starts to get really bad I won't be around anyway.