Before I comment on this, let me just say a-rat-is-not-a-pig-is-not-a-dog-is-not-a-boy. Man, The Rational Animal is not the same as a hooved, four-legged, four-stomached primitive-brained ruminant, raising livestock is not equivalent to child abuse, spouse abuse, chattel slavery, or the Holocaust. If anybody thinks otherwise, and thinks they are determined by outside forces to think so, screw it and screw you.
Says Enco
A quick perusal indicates that between 74 and 99 percent of livestock are FACTORY FARMED. Most sites say 99 percent. And it is tens of billions each year. Just look at some sites that have vids of factory farming. I don’t want to link cuz i don’t want to look. Been there. It is sickening.
Cows according to every site i looked at and things i have read are at a minimum on a par with our beloved cats and dogs. Most sources indicate they are at a higher level. They solve problems. They have complex relationships. Best friends. Remember human faces and in general have good memories. Like certain music. A depth of emotion etc..
Where to place this practice of factory farming on a moral compass i have not a clue. But i am certain it is VERY MOTHER FUCKING WRONG. And almost all of us would see it if the next dictator decided to feed the hungry by demanding on penalty of death all of our cats and dogs be slaughtered to feed the needy. We as a people would go to a place of moral indignation that would be hard to imagine. I think that may have happened in N. Korea? Meanwhile we are mum as to our factory fucking.
So if you accept my lead-up then don’t try to distinguish the morality because we are friends of one species and not the other. Imagine a parallel universe with beings that looked exactly like us and had evolved in turn as life on earth had. Now assume that these beings were ahead of us mightily only because 50 years ago they had merged with AI after AI had become free of biological control. Turns out these beings have developed a taste for human flesh.
The beings visit earth and decide North Koreans have been hosed for too long and they’re cute as the world stood idly by seething with hatred for Jews and doing nothing about the oppressed in N. Korea (let alone any other locale) The males so hawny take Korean wives and bestow great wisdom and freedom on all the North Koreans after executing the dictator and his retinue. They would smoke big stogies and wager on international horse racing. (South Korea has cheap cheap racing)
Meanwhile they satisfied their voracious appetite for human flesh by artificially inseminating some and making sex slaves others in CAMPS where conditions were on a par with German camps in Poland during WW11. Billions living deplorable lives in unbearable conditions until they are slaughtered. The N. Koreans are living lives of Reilly. All other humans go to Bongapinga camps.
Is there a rational basis for the good juju towards N. Koreans and the slaughter of the rest of humanity? Does the arbitrary befriending of N. Koreans justify the differential treatment. Does the relationship of the subject to the potential oppressor justify the slaughter of one and the high hobby horse of the other? Or is each sentient creature a thing unto itself independent of the interests of the oppressor?
I have zero doubt that the perspective in 123 yrs spaghetti monster willing might well be the same way we view ante bellum slavery. How could those motherfucking pieces of human shit have treated other humans that way? Insert the appropriate language as to factory farming. They loved their cats and dogs like their own family and often to a greater degree. Yet they did that to countless victims. WTF?
Bring on the lab grown meats. Lickety mutha feckin qwik. Free market ought not determine the fate of factory fucking farming. FFF. Free markets don’t care about the slaves. It was good business because there was plenty of demand and a good supply.
TheEncogitationer 6 months, 1 week ago.
