I care for animals, realizing caring for some pets is not the same compassion, and not so fair, when the animals that are pets would have no care for any protection with happening to not be the pets they are.
@FredVegrox Exactly. People are such hypocrites. They call themselves animal lovers yet continue to fund factory farm hellscapes.
but dogs and cats are smarter than livestock
-People who think suffering is contingent upon intelligence.
@FredVegrox Why did you use a machine learning generated image? There are plenty of photos from actual dog farms in the here and now, some as large as cities.
I imagine there aren’t plenty for dogs in hog cages
Depends where you go. Have you seen dogs skinned alive for a coat and thrown into a pile of pain with other skinned dogs?
No?
Spicy Lizards can hook you up. They’ve got hundreds of gigabytes of HD video of that. For some reason…
I’m an omnivore, and delight in eating meat, animal products.
I’m lucky that I live midway between the city and agricultural areas , and can, and have gone, to the farms where the animals are raised. The cows where my butcher gets the meat are free in pastures, the chickens in a fenced area, but with fairly ample space, fed grain.
It’s not a vegan thing, it’s decency.
I used to visit the farms where I got my meat, before I stopped eating animal products altogether. The thing that always bugged me was that even in the most idealized animal farm, which is rare since 99% in the US are factory farms, there were still practices that I just couldn’t get behind:
Animals selectively bred to produce way more than their natural counterparts, causing them to be in a state of near constant suffering.
Animals killed at a small fraction of their natural lifespan.
Calves being separated from their mothers.
The worst of it is even legal for cats and dogs, too: selective breeding to the detriment of health. It’s not our right to breed a dog to have difficulty breathing and hip dysplasia for our own desires, and neither is it right to breed a cow to be in pain when not milked by a human (then ensure the cow is constantly lactating). Same thing with a chicken laying a pretty large egg almost every day. I personally believe there’s no pasture big enough to right that wrong.
FACTSPECULATION
Not speculation dude
Assuming the proper licenses are obtained and maintained, which law exactly would come into play?
I know there’s several states where it’s outright illegal to trade dog meat.
