BeaverFever BeaverFever:
I knew you were going to say that. Ok, so let's say a human and a chicken aren't comparable and that humans are more valuable than chickens. Is that the only thing that matters? Human value =100, so animal value = 0? They feel pain and suffering too, doesn't that mean ANYTHING at all? Not even a little? It's not enough to kill them and eat them, we have torture them now too, just so you can save a couple pennies and Taiwan Sugar Corp can make an extra billion?
What does that mean, that its ok to abuse animals in any circumstance like the kids who beat that moose to death in the other thread? That animals have absolutely no more value whatsoever? That cockfights should be legal and if I want to torture a kitten to death just for kicks on a friday night there is nothing even slightly wrong or immoral about it? Follow me here on this....
I'm sure you think that there is SOME DEGREE immorality in torturing animals, like if you walked past a bunch of kids who were skinning a cat alive just for fun, you'd probably be disgusted and offended and intervene...at least most people would.
If I assume therefore that your postion is that since there is a benefit to YOU of cheaper food, the morality of animal torture commited by big agri-business is irrelevant, then essentially you are allowing your morals to be "bought off" or are being hypocrital.
My point is that if something is wrong, it is wrong whether you benefit from it or not. How can something be less wrong because you profit from it? If you oppose something, put your money where your mouth is and vote with your pocket-book. Supporting something you consider to be otherwise immoral simply because it interferes with your personal benefit is no different whether you're talking about slavery or animal cruelty or anything else. It's tolerating something that you know is otherwise wrong for your own self-interest.
We are not torturing them. We raise them to eat them. I would never torture or eat a human. I don't care about the chicken, like I don't care growing plants to eat them or cutting grass. It's not about benefit or not, it's about eating good/bad meat and/or plants. Usually when they are slaughtered that's done in a decent way. So I don't care if the chicken was being sung sleeping songs to have better quality of meat. It's a chicken !!
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