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> specieism Wait, do we not agree that people are inherently more valuable than pigs?

• defrost 7mo ago
  Should we? Leaving aside pigs being intelligent creatures almost akin to humans for medical purposes, pigs fetch a lot more per kilo than humans do. I'm not sure there's even much of an open market for human meat. Unless you mean some nebulous human centic notion of "valuable" that takes no account of the pigs PoV.
• thrance 7mo ago
  If so, by how much? 1.5 billion pigs are slaughtered each year, is that too few to matter? It's so normalized to think of animals as worthless that I don't blame anyone for not having thought about it, but the moral calculus is really easy. Most people wouldn't be comfortable with killing a dog, and yet, every three days, we have two more Holocaust-worths of a smarter animal (namely, pigs).
• filoeleven 7mo ago
  A high-quality diamond is worth more than its weight in gold. That does not make the gold worthless.