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[561937]

2 parter:

part 1-to the meat-eaters(vegetarian and vegan comments welcome):
locked in this discussion at work: what differentiates between a "pet" animal and a "food" animal for you?

part 2-note to self:
slow and easy, not low and sleazy.

Comments

[anonymous]

pets have an identity, people who eat meat refuse to acknowledge any idea of personality or individuality in the animal that is a source of their food. if people gave cows, pigs, chickens etc. the same chance to display themselves as unique beings instead of anonymous foodstuffs then they would probably have more reservations over killing and eating them.

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-adam

that'll do pig?

[561937]

agreed. i've most commonly heard people refer to pets as having souls. but what reserves personality for one animal and not another? even zoo animals display personality(sometimes it's something different than depression too).

that will do pig.

[ex_seasick467]

^ semi-agree, re: food animals though, i'd change 'refuse to acknowledge' to plain inability to associate how the food animal gets from farm to plate as the root of the 'problem'. that being said, i think there's an air of nonchalance - in the sense that even if people were subjected to the animals that were going to end up as their dinner, many people wouldn't be affected enough to stop eating it indefinitely. when i ate meat, if i saw this i don't think it would be enough for me to abstain forever, maybe a short while but i'm sure nothing significant. out of sight, out of mind...
that being said i'd go further to say that if you can't bring yourself to kill it w/ your bare hands, you 'especially' shouldn't be eating it, for whatever that's worth.

obv it is culture/society who dictate which animals are subject to food and which are subject to pet fates. .. . ...

THAT being said, this subject is boring dude! let's talk about issues where there isn't a clear cut "duh" answer...

[561937]

haha duh duh duh. when it comes to meat eating and whether it is considered wrong or whatever, the answers are clear cut, but distinctively different on both sides.
i would like to change the if you can't kill it with your bare hands to...
very few people(i'm talking americans and percentage of population) i think would even have the ability to grasp two arms around a "wild" cow, or chicken, or what have you. let alone slaughter it and cook it and eat it.
boring schmoring, where's your "discuss" post of the week?

[puppycookies]

In a proven study, there is a correlation of smelling bad with eating meat.
Vegetarians smelled better in a blind smell test! :D

[puppycookies]

p.s.
i love steak!

(i smell bad);/