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When I think about the cruelty of industrial farming of animals, I'm concerned more with the way some animals are kept suffering confined to claustrophobic cages for their entire lives than I am about how they are killed. I know that some killing is done humanely.

Your oryx was able to run.

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I guess if I was one to anthropomorphize my food, I'd agree.

Do you seriously believe only humans are capable of suffering? Are you not concerned about the suffering of animals other than humans?

Nope. But where do you draw the line? Mosquitos feel pain. Who cares? Why don't we care?

These moral/ethical lines are completely arbitrary.

They are unclear, but not arbitrary. I enjoy shrimp. I don't think a shrimp is capable of experiencing suffering. I feel no guilt about the treatment of shrimp raised for me to enjoy. It is completely obvious to me that higher mammals such as dogs and pigs experience suffering. I enjoy pork. I don't feel bad about a pig being humanely killed so that I may enjoy pork. I do feel bad about a pig being made to suffer for his entire life as some do on factory farms.

Just because it is difficult and subjective to know what suffers doesn't mean we shouldn't think about it.

Meh.

Edit: downvote welcome. I have lots of fake internet points to spare. I'm not going to dignify a subjective, semantic argument with anything more. Fuck, "meh" is more than 99% of HN comments deserve.

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