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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG are most of you very ignorant. I feel like a genius when I post here. Does anyone posting on here keep a pig or chicken in your DC apartment that greets and cuddles up to you every time you get home? No? that is because we raise livestock that are pigs and chickens and we have certain regulations put in place for that livestock and we don't steal the pig or chicken from a pet owner who has raised that pet for many years to serve up as cuisine like they are doing in China.

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Anyone who has to self proclaim themselves a genius probably isn't. You're basing your outrage on a very personal metric instead of looking at all the available facts and forming an opinion that weighs all sides of the arguement equally.

I agree that it's upsetting that pets were stolen and became food. I am not outraged that it was dogs that became food.

You realize that most people don't keep livestock as pets because it would be illegal to do so? That kind of impairs the opinion that any North Americans would (or could) have with regards to the suitability of a pig or a chicken as a pet. In many places in the world, a chicken would be a pet indeed. My DH was just in Germany, where he saw a lady take her pet goose for a stroll every morning. Truth be told, Ms. Goose is likely to be dinner at some junction, but it doesn't avoid the fact that at the moment, it's an important companion animal in the meantime.

In forming your opinion, you probably haven't considered that pigs, chickens, and cows are "livestock" because we've domesticated them to be, but at the same time when they are not part of the factory flocks and herds we force them intolut of our own ignorance, they are as intelligent as sociable as the dogs and cats who are fortunate enough to share our homes with.

So while you're outraged about dogs, consider that Hindus consider your hamburger about as repulsive and ignorant, and sacrilegious. Guinea pigs are a food source in The mountains of South America. Rabbits are pretty standard fare around the world.

And if it interests you at all, there is a website called "my pet chicken", dedicated to backyard flocks. There's some great forums about keeping PET chickens. People can and do keep potbelly pigs as pets where it is legal to do so.

I think the posts above definitely show that pet people are actually smart and moral, and understand the fact that you judge a dog to be somehow morally superior than a cow is kind of stupid.

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BIG difference between pet and food. I dont care what animal it is or what anomal is raised for food but it foes NOT make it right to eat AND torture food that jasnt been raised for livestock. We live in a first world and we think of china just as moral ethical and civilized so a NORMAL person who loves pets would not see torture and mistreatment of animals right or ethical. Only a person requiring serious therapy would think that was right and obviously you are not in that normal category.[/quote]

Are you even reading and understanding your own posts?
So, it's okay for an animal to be tortured its entire life and killed because it just happened to be born into a life of livestock, but not if it had an otherwise happy life.

For the record, this attitude is way more alarming than people eating a bunch of dogs. How come your morality only extends to "pets" and not all animals.

An animal being raised as livestock still has an amazing capacity for suffering. The fact that the don't get to curl up on your couch does not make them suffer their circumstance any less.

In some places, cows are raised as dieties. Do those cows have moral superiority over regular livestock cows beause they happened to be born into a life of comfort?

I am against the mistreatment of all animals. I don't reserve my outrage to those that are cute and cuddly, or the ones I like more. That's the difference between the objective and the hysterical.

I'm almost scared to ask what your stance on poverty might be. [/quote]

I said has or has not been raised look above where I corrected myself. [/quote]

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