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posted by dennisn on December 20th, 2014 at 6:22PM
I'm pretty sure this is basically how all *mainstream* (hence the title) meat and animal products are derived? Perhaps not quite as cruelly, but cruelly nevertheless.
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posted by jenni on December 20th, 2014 at 9:37PM
Unless you buy your meat from the nicest farmer at a market or your local hunter I think its safe to say factory-farmed poorly treated creatures are the norm. Now the question of how can one not consider animals under the NAP comes to mind...
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posted by dennisn on December 20th, 2014 at 9:48PM
Animals don't have rights. They don't have the cognitive capacity to articulate them, or respect them for other creatures. If they did, your cat, for example, would be a serial killer. (Okay, maybe not your cat -- she would merely be an accomplice to serial murder, but my cat would definitely be guilty of murder -- for "murdering" mice.)
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posted by jenni on December 20th, 2014 at 10:11PM
But as a being that is capable of cognitive reasoning how can I dismiss the fact that I am destroying/killing things for my own selfish reasons? I don't need cheese to survive but I really want it; what if another person is deeply in love with all animals, am I not hurting that person somehow by killing these creatures they love?
(The only crime my cat has committed is that of being too cute)
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