a) Vegan hippies. Stop getting butthurt about meat and animal cruelty. I would LOVE to be a farm-raised animal. Eat all day, maybe get massaged if it's that kind of place. Not a care in the world. Peta activists are projecting sentient, human traits like betrayal onto livestock like chickens and cattle. Saying that a crippled goat deserves to live a full life is like saying your dog deserves to run outside with booties to protect against stickerburs.
All this topic really needs is a bit of a style boost. I'm re-opening. Please enjoy sparking many mini-debates in this topic so that we can produce even more threads. ;P
Just one things to your paragraph about veganism:
I think it's interesting you assume vegans expect that animals feel betrayal when they are being killed/eaten/imprisoned. Nothing much here, really. Just: betrayal? o_O I think it is enough that if humans were wished by me to not be in fear, that the same wish could extend to animals who also feel fear. For the record, my wish for nothing to feel fear extends from my disposition which forces me to empathize, so you could actually call me selfish.
