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While I appreciate the sentiment pigs IMO are the wrong animals to start. Pigs are supposed to be cheap and people aren’t supposed to care if we kill them, the
by xwdv 5y ago
While I appreciate the sentiment pigs IMO are the wrong animals to start.
Pigs are supposed to be cheap and people aren’t supposed to care if we kill them, they become food, and maybe someday as carriers for human organs for transplant. Same with animals like chickens, just raise them and eat them. Seems pointless to focus on the emotions of these creatures. Better to start with animals like dogs and cats that are more meaningful to societies.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoThat’s the point. Pigs are very smart and emotional and people absolutely should care how they are being held. A lot of industrial farming is basically enormous cruelty and people should care.
- xwdv 5y agoAnd how are we going to reconcile that with the fact we will still want to eat pigs or use them for other purposes against their will?
- spaetzleesser 5y agoA good start would be to treat them better while they are alive. It makes a difference whether their whole life is hell or whether they have a good life and only one bad day when they get killed.
- xwdv 5y agoSure, any creature should get a good life if we can give it to them, but how do we achieve that at scale?
- ipaddr 5y agoPigs are highly emotional and smart. We could easily be eating dogs and keeping pigs as pets if society evolved differently.
- pcthrowaway 5y ago"People aren't supposed to care" because that would have the catastrophic impact of pigs that are being farmed potentially living happier lives, and perhaps more people not eating them? Because I don't think pigs are "supposed" to be slaughter fodder any more than <insert oppressed human class> is supposed to be enslaved/genocided/paid less/made into soap.