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Because the implications are horrifying. If animals have consciousness then every cow, pig, and chicken farm is a mini Auschwitz.
by not_the_fda 2y ago
Because the implications are horrifying. If animals have consciousness then every cow, pig, and chicken farm is a mini Auschwitz.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoWell yes. A friend of mine has recently stopped eating any pig products due to him finding out that pigs enjoy playing video games: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56023720 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56023720
- User23 2y agoEverything that lives dies. And everything that dies is going to be food for something else sooner or later. Nothing is going to change that reality. That pig is going to die. How is dying to feed humans worse than the inevitable alternative of dying to feed some other living thing?
- maccard 2y agothe manner in which they live and die is as important.
- gunapologist99 2y agoThis is true. I move we install video games at pig farms.
- 082349872349872 2y agoAt least I don't think Auschwitz had self-actuated rotating robotic brushes for the inmates to skritch themselves with. The little red contact lenses for the chickens are horrifying though.
- mypastself 2y agoOnly if all those animals are treated poorly. Or at least if they’d be likely to pick non-existence over such existence if they had the choice.
- sdenton4 2y agoThink about what industrial farming says about humans, and be horrified.
- mypastself 2y agoI’m not horrified by humans being intelligent cooperative omnivores.
- IshKebab 2y agoAre there really many people that think that cows and pigs are not conscious? I would be very surprised. People eat meat despite the fact that it involves murdering animals. I don't think anyone really likes it but I don't think many people are so deluded that they think farm animals are not conscious. Maybe religious people I guess, if they have weird ideas about souls.