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Wouldn’t you need to kill the animal in the prime of its life, causing a moral issue?
by mapme 5y ago
Wouldn’t you need to kill the animal in the prime of its life, causing a moral issue?
- Pxtl 5y agoFood animals are killed in adolescence for far less noble reasons. I'm a vegetarian. Grow me a goddamned lung pig.
- mapme 5y agoI understand your view and agree with what you’ve said, however, the primary point was that there are moral implications if you intervene in another life so it is not a moral freebie.
- drenvuk 5y agoPigs reach slaughter weight at about 6 months[0] and the lifetime of a domestic pig is 15 to 20 years. Their breeding age is 8+ months. So we kill them before they reach the prime of their life most of the time. Killing them at their prime might be less of a moral issue than what we do currently. [0]https://modernfarmer.com/2016/05/raising-pigs/#:~:text=Most%20pig%20farmers%20buy%20%E2%80%9Cweaners,they're%206%20months%20old https://modernfarmer.com/2016/05/raising-pigs/#:~:text=Most%....
- mapme 5y agoThat is an interesting comparison to other reasons why we kill animals, however, the point wasn’t a relative moral comparison to animal slaughter for food purposes but that it’s not zero cost morality wise to kill an animal in its prime.
- drenvuk 5y agoIt's not zero cost morality wise to kill anything at any point in their lifetime; from bacteria, to worms, to flies, to pigs each has its own weight on a person's conscience be it nil or hefty. I mean that. But a pig is not human so it's acceptable to me.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoWould you feel the same if cats were the only animal whose organs could be harvested?
- spoonjim 5y agoYes, I would be OK with killing any number of cats to save any human’s life.
- gambiting 5y agoAbsolutely - why wouldn't you? Serious question.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoIf you were the cat, I bet you'd feel differently. That's as serious of an answer as I can give. It's the same reason I never neutered my cats, since it felt like a mutilation.
- gambiting 5y agoYes, but if I were a cat I wouldn't lick my own anus and yet cats happily do that - my opinion on what I would or wouldn't like as a cat is not really relevant. My point is - we are not cats, and cats aren't humans. They deserve good treatment, respect and all the love they can get - but at the end of the day they are not humans and should not be treated as such.
- dkjaudyeqooe 5y agoI don't think life length is an issue, the pig doesn't know how long it will live so there doesn't seem much scope for suffering. It comes back to the question if never being born at all is better than some (domesticated) life at all.