> There needs to be more debate and measure in the way we present animal pain and animal exploitation, which I believe are both acceptable. I wouldn't hit my dog! But I understand that we need to put down dogs in animal shelters without calling it a mass murder.
> When you say "livestock enslavement is problematic" you're stating an opinion as if it were a fact.
No but it IS a fact, if you agree you wouldn't hit your dog, I suppose that when you "put it down", you would also prefer to do it painlessly instead of giving it to a slaughterhouse that operates on such a scale that it can't quite 100% guarantee your dog might not dangle half-alive on a meat hook for a minute (or other types of accidents that definitely do happen).
If you agree that treating a dog like that IS problematic, we're doing this to animals that are literally just as intelligent and loving as dogs (namely, pigs), on a massive industrial scale.
Sure, I also consider myself sufficiently superior to animals to justify eating them.
But the way they are treated in the bio industry is absolutely problematic, for a various number of reasons actually.
> When you say "livestock enslavement is problematic" you're stating an opinion as if it were a fact.
No but it IS a fact, if you agree you wouldn't hit your dog, I suppose that when you "put it down", you would also prefer to do it painlessly instead of giving it to a slaughterhouse that operates on such a scale that it can't quite 100% guarantee your dog might not dangle half-alive on a meat hook for a minute (or other types of accidents that definitely do happen).
If you agree that treating a dog like that IS problematic, we're doing this to animals that are literally just as intelligent and loving as dogs (namely, pigs), on a massive industrial scale.
Sure, I also consider myself sufficiently superior to animals to justify eating them.
But the way they are treated in the bio industry is absolutely problematic, for a various number of reasons actually.