British pet massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pet_massacre

by beefman • 3 years ago

24 28 3 years ago

en.wikipedia.org

sgu9996• 3 years ago

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Many pet owners, after getting over the fear of bombings and lack of food, regretted killing their pets and blamed the government for starting the hysteria.

Ha yes, the government. How many hundreds of millions sentient mammals are we still killing every year just because they taste good grilled...

pjmlp4• 3 years ago

Plants have feelings as well.

sgu9996• 3 years ago

And roasted human flesh smells like pork, what's your point? Everything is the same?

There is no evidence that plants have feelings. Current consensus is that cows and dogs do, however...

rs999gti• 3 years ago

Hundreds of bugs, birds, and small mammals are killed farming and harvesting plants.

sgu9996• 3 years ago

I was mostly pointing at the cognitive dissonance in between care for pets and cruelty for farm animals, but I do enjoy having triggered both vegans and carnivores.

You are right, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't care about anything because nothing is ideal. Ceteris paribus, eating plants is better for our environment and is very obviously causing less suffering...

starttoaster5• 3 years ago

The animal kingdom eats each other for food too. This veganism argument has never made sense to me, it implies that we are not, ourselves, a member of the natural food chain.

version_five• 3 years ago

It's not you, it doesn't make sense, it's just signaling membership in a club/cult

metalcrow• 3 years ago

Isn't it because we have morals, unlike animals? Animals do a lot of other objectively terrible things, it doesn't mean we also are fine to do it.

ever1337• 3 years ago

I guess the question then is whether you think it's moral to murder a murderer

lgvln4• 3 years ago

The argument for veganism was never about not killing animals but about how much suffering factory-farmed animals go through to become meat on our plates. Because of the difficulties in sourcing ethically raised animal products, some choose to forgo all animal products.

bobbylarrybobby• 3 years ago

I believe the vegan argument is, simply, if you have the option to cause or not to cause suffering to another being, you should choose not to. Other animals do not have that choice — it's eat or starve — but we do have the choice and so the ethical thing to do is avail ourselves of it.

sgu9996• 3 years ago

You with your trolley zooming through the refrigerated section of the supermarket, part of the food chain?

Come on, there is nothing natural about our environment. Lucky us, we can now live until 80 instead of 25, in good portion because we don't accept to be part of it.

British pet massacre

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