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SlayerRondo said: 1. Response: Yes while i agree that animals dont want to become food i believe that stems from the fact that they dont have desires and wants but rather instinct. You could equally say that most animals dont desire to go on living as there intelligence is to low to consider what life means. 2. Response: Yes while the treatment of some animals i farms in inhumane that is more an argument for buying products such as free range eggs and the like if you believe that animals appreciate comfort of life the dame way humans do. 3. Response: It is believed that the cooked meat eaten by our early ancestors is responsible for providing us with the nutrients to evolve into the intelligent beings we are today. 4. Response: As stated eating meat is partialy responsible for us becoming the intelligent beings we our today as well as the fact that we have canines strongly indicating that we as humans were meant to eat meat. 5. Response: Animals dont have a future in the way that humans do. Pigs and cows dont reminice about the past or look forward to the future the way humans do and without both of them what would people be? Just a bunch of creatures experiencing things one by one not knowing who we are or what purpose we may have or had for ourselves? Pigs and cows would not care one way or the other if they could know that they were going to die the next day because they function on instinct rather than emotion. Without emotions life would not be worth living. At best the only purpose animals could achive with their life would be to provide food for beings that could properly appreciate it like humans. 6. Also a new Question. Youre looking at this glass half empty rather than half full. Assuming people in the future raised cows and pigs with the highest living standards for animals would you rather the cows and pigs not be bread and used for food having at least some life before dying rather than them not being bread at all? Seems better to live for a day than not at all doesnt it? Dont forget that many of these animals could not survive in the wild or breed at the same levels they do on farms.
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You don't have to re-copy what I typed. That's what the quotes are for,
1. It depends on how you're measuring intelligence. Pigs have shown to be qiute smart actually. Source 1 and Source 2
2. True
3. True, but that doesn't apply today. That's why we have vitamins.
4. Same as above. We have less damaging alternatives.
5. I've already showed you how smart pigs can be, so it's up to you to decide if that's smart 'enough.' Also, where did you read that mammals didn't have emotions?
6. That would solve one of the problems, but it still wouldn't solve my first point about forcing animals to be food.
Also, just because other animals would do the same in the wilderness doesn't mean it's okay for humans in civilization to do so..
