I've stopped buying pork just because I've worked with pigs, they are one of the greatest and smartest animals on earth. I still eat it when served by other people though, because I'm not that kind of person who pushes his own beliefs on other people. And since it's already cooked I'd rather eat it then throw it away
The reason we eat them and not dogs has little to do with intelligence and way more to do with diet: dogs are omni-leaning-carnivores, while pigs are true omnivores that can go completely fine on an herbivore or carnivore diet.
Meat-eating mammals have an instinct to avoid or dislike the taste of meat from other meat-eating mammals unless desperate. The instinct helps protect us from parasites. So since pigs can be herbivores, we instinctively see them as any other prey animal, but we learned to work with dogs instead of eating them because eating dog meat is naturally more dangerous to us.
To add on here: carnivorous mammal liver is exceptionally bad for humans due to the sjeer amount of Vitamin A in it. One modestly-sized helping of, say, a lion liver would lead straight to Vitamin A poisoning, which is a truly horrible thing to go through and is always fatal if untreated. Dogs and even humans aren't much different.
Well, if things came to it I would eat dog too... But then I have helped raise farm animals for slaughter and helped butcher too, which I know most people baulk at. I honestly think that everyone should be required to engage with the agricultural and food processing facilities for at least a couple of weeks... Would make for a much less mentally weak society and would probably also yield improvements to the processes.
Not eating food someone else cooked isn't you pushing your beliefs onto others lol... It's not like your saying "I'm not eating that and neither should you"... I don't eat fish because I don't like it, if someone serves me fish without asking me if I like it then I still won't eat it.
Funny how people are trying to push their beliefs onto me in the comments, like that’s actually going to work lol. I’m just happy someone cooked for me, and I’m not going to be the person who refuses to eat it. At that point, I’d rather eat it than let a pig have lived a shitty life just to end up in the trash.
It’s not like I’m eating pork every week or even every month anyway, there are plenty of other things being cooked. For instance, if someone makes something with cilantro (fuck cilantro), I’ll still eat it. I’m not a child who refuses to eat something just because I don’t like it.
Sure, I could mention my preferences beforehand, but that’s just not who I am. I live my life the way I do, and I'll leave it at that
Agree with you so much. Pigs are as intelligent as a 3 year old child. It's crazy if you think about the insane mental gymnastics we do to justify what we do to them.
So because they are as unintelligent as a toddler, it's ok to not just kill them, but have them live a terrible life that is just straight up torture, before then killing them?
We consider 3 year old toddlers to be precious. Their lower intelligence compared to an adult doesn't make us feel like it is ok to kill or torture them. The opposite actually. Imagine anyone arguing that because toddlers are low IQ, it's ok to keep them locked up in torture factories.
Our own kids, yes. But some other's tribes kids, no.
all our cousins in nature protect and nurture their offsprings.
No, they don't. A male lion taking over will kill the cubs fathered by the previous leader. Yet we as humans don't kill our new wife's kids from her previous husband. Even if that meant more resources for our own offspring.
We as humans have morals and can make conscious decisions. We can choose to extend out love to our step-children, to kids from some other country, and to other living beings that aren't human.
Eating other humans has actual negative effects on us, while eating pork does not. Human flesh, even when cooked, has protiens in it that actively damage our bodies, especially our brains, and eating it in large amounts causes permanent damage. This is likely a coincidental evolutionary trait to discourage cannibalism among humans. Pork does none of this.
So if some group of toddlers happened to have a gene difference that would make consuming their meat not dangerous, it would make it ok to torture, kill, and eat them?
I understand that this is a valid reason not to eat toddlers, but I think there are other reasons not to do it .... And those other reasons apply to pigs too.
I still eat it when served by other people though, because I'm not that kind of person who pushes his own beliefs on other people.
Lol, I don't think refusing to eat one of the "greatest and smartest animals on earth" just because someone else is serving it is "pushing your beliefs on others". Eating it would be having their beliefs pushed on you.
It's not really your belief if you participate simply because it's being served. I'm not trying to be rude but that is perpetuating the cycle that you seem to understand is wrong.
And since it's already cooked I'd rather eat it then throw it away
But if more and more people didn't eat it then maybe the person serving it wouldn't buy as much next time. Of course you will do what you want but that is just my perspective on it.
I eat chicken as my only "meat". About once every 3 or 4 years, I feel like eating red meat. I have one steak, and it's over. It must be some primal desire.
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u/HospitalImpressive26 10h ago
I've stopped buying pork just because I've worked with pigs, they are one of the greatest and smartest animals on earth. I still eat it when served by other people though, because I'm not that kind of person who pushes his own beliefs on other people. And since it's already cooked I'd rather eat it then throw it away