Should Animals Bred For Food Have No Rights?

[PsychoSerenity]

Animal rights are inconsistent with animals being bred for food. If you've made the decision to eat an animal, you've lowered its status to that of a potato. Would anyone argue for potato rights? Of course not. It's absurd.

You're a potato.

[tattuchu]

Well that's a bad analogy because everyone adores potatoes.

[Svartalf]

especially fried, I'd not want a potato for a pet.

[tattuchu]

especially fried, I'd not want a potato for a pet.

Me neither. Potatoes makes bad pets because you can't resist eating them.

[laklak]

Plus they're constantly putting out poisonous green shoots and turning into nasty blackish mush. Not attractive traits in a house pet.

[Hermit]

But you can make solid potato salad with them. Just look at that yummyness.



Awwww, come over here, pets.

[pErvinalia]

You can prise my steak from my cold dead hands...

Yeah, I'm sick of hearing this 'meat is murder' bullshit. The important thing is as you mentioned earlier. Humane treatment while alive, and a quick stress free and painless death.

[pErvinalia]

The domesticated animals have been hugely successful as species, as can be seen from KLR's graph, exactly because they have been domesticated. None of those animals would even exist without the utility they give to humans. This leads to a conclusion that all kind of demands of a "happy life" or "freedom" for such animals is utter bollocks.

I don't think you can say just on the basis of success defined in terms of numbers of a species, that the welfare of any individual is therefore not relevant. I don't accept that existing, regardless of conditions, is necessarily better than not existing.

Yep.

[pErvinalia]

Animal rights are inconsistent with animals being bred for food. If you've made the decision to eat an animal, you've lowered its status to that of a potato. Would anyone argue for potato rights? Of course not. It's absurd.

Potatoes don't have feelings. So it's not absurd.

[pErvinalia]

Animal rights are inconsistent with animals being bred for food. If you've made the decision to eat an animal, you've lowered its status to that of a potato. Would anyone argue for potato rights? Of course not. It's absurd.

You're a potato.

[Gallstones]

I give you Temple Grandin.

Cattle


Pigs


Turkeys

[Gallstones]

Temple Grandin, Myth: Livestock are Aware and Afraid They are Going to be Slaughtered




Here is the series of Meat Mythcrushers

[MiM]

especially fried

But the potatoe rights are even in their name "Freedom Fries".

[pErvinalia]

she's a bit of a character..

[Gallstones]

How often has the might is right argument been scoffed at when the religious use it but we accepted the worse Nazi camp guard defense when human taste buds are being satiated. If you are not a vegan then you have no morals or compassion.

LOL!