So now we start passing laws about animals based on emotional connection and level of inteligence? Pigs are becoming a more common household pet (potbellies) and are actually very smart. Should we ban their consumption?
I get that people are attached but those people don't have to support the industry. Personally I do not feel that there are justifiable reasons to ban their consumption as long as they meet industry regulations and laws.
Right, you consider all animals the same, excluding humans. However, human beings are indeed animals, so you are making a distinction. Let's just suppose some people want to eat human meat, and they only eat people who volunteer before their death to be eaten, like people volunteer to be cut up and sold/used as donors. No harm, no foul, right? I understand that some people consider all animals as equal, and I really don't care to try and change anyone's mind. I might even try eating horse myself, but I certainly understand why some people hold horses in a higher regard than just food. Also, I don't own a dog right now, but if I did and someone tried to harm it, I would not bother trying to explain to them why I feel the way I do, as I blast them into oblivion just like I would protecting any other member of my family. Not only that, but if the situation ever evolved to the point that dogs were being killed and butchered in slaughterhouses like cattle or pigs, the people involved in that would become my natural enemies.
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I don't care who does or doesn't consider that rational thought, and I completely understand that other places in the world feel the same way about animals that I eat, such as cows. My mind will never change to accept butchering dogs for food. I will stop eating beef long before I am ok with treating dogs in the same manner.
Nice attempt to equate humans to animals such as dogs and cows. Sorry but no.
If some guy volunteered to be eaten by a cannibal after he died then what business is it of mine?.
So are we now in the business of telling people what to do with their property and business to such a minute level?
Ferraris are more expansive than Hondas so I no longer want a Ferrari to be driven in regular traffic where it could get hit. Closed roads and race tracks only please.
As long as they abide by meat processing and other applicable laws it should absolutely be allowed.
I have eaten horse, zebra, kangaroo, ostrich, emu, rattlesnake, elk, moose, deer, caribou, 2 kinds of bear, frog, alligator, squirrel, turtle, and even tried guinea pig once. I will eat anything I can throw on my smoker or grill (or find in a restaurant), no reservations. If they made it legal and there was a good healthy source I would throw a hank of human on there in a heartbeat.
Pigs are filthy animals; I don't eat filthy animals.