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You have a very different perspective. I think it leads you to believe that other people are all in denial, and would obviously be upset (feel shame, horror, et
by tropo 10y ago
You have a very different perspective. I think it leads you to believe that other people are all in denial, and would obviously be upset (feel shame, horror, etc.) if forced to accept the reality of chickens being killed. In other words, "meat is murder" for you.
I assure you, this is not how we all feel. I look at an animal and I see food. Trips to the zoo make me hungry. The only ones I don't want on the menu are the biohazards, the toxic ones, and the bad-tasting ones. My only reservation about killing them is the same as with changing the oil on my car: it's messy, dirty work.
- mcguire 10y agoThat's perfectly fine (though if you don't mind, I'll ask you to stay away from my pets). Why would you think it would be?
- tropo 10y agoWhy what? Are you asking why I'd see it that way? I think it has to do with making a sharp distinction between human and non-human. I feel that there is a strange commonality between animal rights activists and the people who enjoy torturing animals, with both sides seeing the animals as being relatively human, to love or to torture. The animals are being personified, then treated to good or evil. We don't have to personify animals. We can view them more like vegetables. Pretty much nobody sheds a tear when chopping vegetables, onions excepted. Pretty much nobody can sadistically enjoy it either. It's just food.
- dbdr 10y agoVegetables do not suffer. Animals suffer.