jakelafort wrote:

Most racing thoroughbreds, however, are treated like gold. They are expensive investments to purchase and maintain. I think the stable hands often have it tougher than the horses. I would be fine with racing appaloosas, paints and arabians. Those breeds are much less frail and subject to injury or fatal breakdowns.

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Unseen, You’ve missed the idioscyncracy i was pointing out: That another sentient life on a par with the beloved and doted animal is condemned to a lifetime of misery before it is executed. We grow up to view cute cute kittahns with those big adoring eyes as objects of love. The oink oink pig, great big fat pink F’r, who is perhaps more…[Read more]

@Jake

An idiosyncrasy is a “peculiarity or oddity of behavior or attitude.” What makes liking meat or treating some creatures differently from others “idiosyncratic” when it is so universal? As for the horrific conditions, our own lives involve horror, especially here in America where I very likely may die a horrible death because I simply can’t…[Read more]

Unseen, you are missing my point.

No quibble about love of cats. No gainsaying the love/friendship/attachment/bond so many of us form with cats and dogs-for some weirdos, snakes and reptiles. Feeling for one rather than another is human although it is mostly a matter of keeping an animal. If you have one you are likely to develop those loving…[Read more]

onyangomakagutu wrote:

Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do. Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to i…

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jakelafort wrote:

So it is on an individual basis in terms of how we ascribe value and love to certain animals. Concomitantly we rip into our steak while there is nothing to distinguish the value of the ill-treated and ultimately slaughtered as meat for our table from the beloved kitten. Likewise silly narratives and ideology make us look askance…

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Is that really the hill you want to make your last stand on?

Well, corporations have been doing this all along. Not that it is the right thing to do.

Maybe the Fed should have intervened in the market to control prices because i don’t see how individual businesses operating in a free market economy would not respond to inflation pressures in the market.

Unseen i despise Christianity. I am not however so delusional that i blame it for us eating meat.

I was making an observation about how narrow and self-absorbed we are in both the macrocosm and microcosm. The early christians had the geocentric perspective. The earth was the center of the universe. Not until Copernicus published his work…[Read more]