• Unmarketable Plushie@pawb.social
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            What the hell does any of that matter?

            Studies have shown that pigs are more intelligent than dogs. By your logic, eating pigs is more cruel than eating dogs.

            I am not now, and never will be a vegan.

            Alright, I never asked you to become vegan. I just pointed out your code of ethics, when it comes to what animals do and don’t deserve empathy, is cruel and irrational. What you do with that information is up to you.

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                I love how you say “the gotcha” as it invalidated the argument. There is a paradox in your ethics, pointing out the way ppl tell you about it won’t change anything about the fact being presented here.

                It feels like to me that you are more concerned about winning an argument than adressing what is being talked about here.

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                So you are aware of the cruelty but proudly proclaim that you’ll always willingly participate, no matter what?

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              Studies have shown that pigs are more intelligent than dogs.

              They eat and shit in the same place. Idk what their measure for intelligence is, but most smart mammals don’t shit where they eat.

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                They actually don’t. I’ve raised pigs, and they keep themselves clean- they pick one corner of the pen to shit in and a different corner to sleep and eat in, given the opportunity. The idea that they shit where they eat is probably (dunno for sure) because they clean themselves by taking dust baths, and when it rains, the wallow turns into mud. They roll in the mud to stay cool when it’s hot sometimes, but it isn’t shit.

                We had a pig when I was a kid who could work the lock on her pen and escape into the fields next door to eat grass. They’re pretty smart.

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                  Thousands of years of religion forbidding pork because of how unclean pigs are vs this anecdote. Damn, I’m defeated.

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                    Unclean doesn’t always mean “dirty”. A lot of things that are considered unclean by different religions are considered so because they’re spiritually unclean, rather than literally filthy. Historical riligious objections to pork are probably because of human-transmissible parasites and disease like trichinosis, which aren’t as much of a concern anymore.

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                    Pigs were kept near to people and were a vector for disease because they share similar biology to us. They weren’t unclean because they didn’t wash their hands or something stupid. They were unclean because they made people sick because of they way we kept them after domestication.