Because most of us own cats and not everyone owns a cow or a snake (or any other animal that I don't know of that they make leather out of) and we are attached to our animals and would never imagine someone eating out little kitties.mr_miagi32 said:
But do you understand what a backwards mentality that is? "If it makes a nice pet, its wrong to kill it, but if its ugly or we don't have one living in out apartment, lets slit its throat and make a jacket." Do cattle not have the same acuteness for pain and suffering as a dog? Do snakes not have a nervous system comparable to a cat? Does a chicken not like to spread its wings just as much as a parakeet? So why is it ok to torture and confine and kill some animals but not others? Blech, I hate double standards.
Heh, I always wondered if people at this forum eat fish, since they also keep them as pets. Creates a rift in the "but we don't want to eat companion animals" theory. And to be completely honest (listen close cause no vegan or vegitarian will ever admit this), the reason people won't eat meat, or wear leather, or buy a product tested on animals isn't really because it'll do much to harm the company, because we know we're a minority and that these industries won't be brought to their knees by a few angry hippies. The reason people make these choices is that it helps them sleep better at night; in other words, we don't feel right about exploiting animals, so by minimizing the amount of suffering we contribute to, we don't feel quite so badly. That's all. Really, anything anyone does ties somehow to their own benefit, after all.
Agreed. Though even if they put them on a comfy pillow and euthanized them, I still probably would avoid as many animal products as possible because I simply don't see what the point of eating them is when there are healthy alternatives. Of course, the agricultural industry kills tons of wildlife, insects, and "pests" too, so eh. Like I said, helps me sleep better at night knowing I didn't pay for animal carcass today.
I agree. I'm not a vegan by the way. I eat meat and sometimes fish but I pretty much have to if I don't want to be taking a bunch of pills everyday for the lack of iron and other things that I need. I don't eat every kind of meat because I don't like it. My parents never raised us to eat meat more than 2 times a month so coming to Texas and seeing most people here, including my boyfriend, eat meat every single day of the week is just weird.RandomWiktor said:But do you understand what a backwards mentality that is? "If it makes a nice pet, its wrong to kill it, but if its ugly or we don't have one living in out apartment, lets slit its throat and make a jacket." Do cattle not have the same acuteness for pain and suffering as a dog? Do snakes not have a nervous system comparable to a cat? Does a chicken not like to spread its wings just as much as a parakeet? So why is it ok to torture and confine and kill some animals but not others? Blech, I hate double standards.
Heh, I always wondered if people at this forum eat fish, since they also keep them as pets. Creates a rift in the "but we don't want to eat companion animals" theory. And to be completely honest (listen close cause no vegan or vegitarian will ever admit this), the reason people won't eat meat, or wear leather, or buy a product tested on animals isn't really because it'll do much to harm the company, because we know we're a minority and that these industries won't be brought to their knees by a few angry hippies. The reason people make these choices is that it helps them sleep better at night; in other words, we don't feel right about exploiting animals, so by minimizing the amount of suffering we contribute to, we don't feel quite so badly. That's all. Really, anything anyone does ties somehow to their own benefit, after all.
It was more of an example (and it would probably work out to something along those line statisticly). You also sort of helped me with an example; not sure if oyu meant too, though lol. The majority of people would not taking that much time to pick out a body wash. It is very noble to do so, but it is certainly the minority. The biggest decision I make when buying body wash is price, scent, and moisturizing. That's it. I don't check labels to see who manufactured it, or even if it was made in the USA. I think that this is the norm.
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