Pigs are as smart as dogs
There’s extensive evidence that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs. Yet one species is afforded affection and respect; the other faces mass slaughter en route to becoming bacon, ham and pork chops.
Seeking to capitalize on that discrepancy, animal-welfare advocates are launching a campaign called The Someone Project that aims to highlight research depicting pigs, chickens, cows and other farm animals as more intelligent and emotionally complex than commonly believed. The hope is that more people might view these animals with the same empathy that they view dogs, cats, elephants, great apes and dolphins.
“When you ask people why they eat chickens but not cats, the only thing they can come up with is that they sense cats and dogs are more cognitively sophisticated that then species we eat—and we know this isn’t true,” said Bruce Friedrich of Farm Sanctuary, the animal-protection and vegan-advocacy organization that is coordinating…
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I have a wonderful blog for you. Noel found it lurking. This girl is a gem:
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What an odd blog name! I like your chat – she started out so happy-chatty-loving-Christian and the disguise flopped abruptly to the ground to reveal defensive-snappy-bitter-Christian in no time at all.
Apart from that, no love for our friends the pigs and chickens? It’s definitely the next rung on the commonly accepted ladder of morality. Humans will be a vegan race by 2364 – and the law-breaking animal consumers will languish in meditative rehabilitation/reprogramming units (run by dolphins).
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I did read it, and liked it. I’m 110% behind this new stem cell meat. Why governments aren’t throwing money at this thing i just don’t know. PLUS, this tech will mean we can end all animal testing! Wouldn’t that be something?
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Also, while we’re exchanging fun places to lurk, go have a peak at the Ethical Warrior’s latest post, and our chat underneath. I don’t get that guy at all – sometimes he writes total sense, and then it all just goes la la ….
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Link please
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No way, what kind of lurking would that be? Splattering clues all over the place. You’d never make an undercover agent (like me). Where’s Ark gone? Do you think he accidentally unplugged his wi-fi and will have to blame it on his internet provider again when someone plugs it back in for him?
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OK, found it, no help from you. Now i have to read.
Ark might have gone off wandering again, looking for soup, without his pants… again.
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What a charming image! Wish I’d kept that in words though …
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Relax, i didn’t also mention how cold it presently is in Jo’burg 😉
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Oh dear, they’re insane 😦
Perhaps you can ask him, then, why Paul didn’t arrest Jesus when he was a Christian hunter, as Arks recent post proposed. You might also ask him why paul never mentioned a resurrection. Jesus (post-death) was a spirit, not a living body, according to the letters.
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I don’t really want to take the conversation much further. I quite like his posts generally and don’t have much ammunition against personal revelations – beyond the obvious ‘you must be a nutter!’ I think there’s still a chance it’s all satirical. Like Humanity 777.
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777 is a computer program accidentally released from ARPA in 1982.
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But remember 777 cursed Chris … then Chris disappeared … hmmm, maybe there’s something in them there numbers.
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Oh, shit…..
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If the pigs wouldn’t taste so damn good….
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Well exactly, they were certainly my main stumbling point to quitting meat. But the further I get away from chomping on them, the more I can’t believe taste was such a consideration. We really are still barbarians – maybe always will be.
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I’m all for going vegetarian. I am just too lazy to start….don’t ask, the last time i tried, after a week, it nearly caused a war in my house.
But I do have a thought…
If we stop eating pigs, cows, sheep,,etc, what will be the motivation to prevent them quickly going extinct?
I cannot see how they could be returned to the wild as they are more or less a manufactured species these days?
A bit of a conundrum I fear.
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Oooh, quick, let’s make lots of animals living pointless and miserable lives so we can eat them! I think you know that’s a ridiculous argument – worthy of a Christian. At what point would everyone in the world be vegetarian? How long do you think a change like this would take? No species are going extinct because we stop eating them. At the very least they would be preserved for curiosity in nice fields throughout the world. If there are any fields left in 2980 …
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FFS! What a snarky reply…
Species are going extinct all the time. Those we aren’t eating we are using for their skins, horns etc
They would likely go extinct unless protected as people would then hunt them.
They are not like dolphins or whales.
Domestic animals do not have a natural habitat any more, we have all but destroyed it.
Where would cows pigs and sheep live? If there were not put in a special reserve there would be no habitat for them.
Maybe over time the humble pig may develop into the boar it was descended from, but they would have to be protected, as are deer.
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I had to google FFS – how could you possibly be more modern than me? I don’t know what you’re talking about. Are you imagining a future where eating animals is illegal and people are hunting them? Billions of animals are bred exclusively for the purpose of eating them. Extinction isn’t even a relief-filled glimmer on the horizon. It’s irrelevant. When 99.99% of the population is vegan you may revisit your concerns.
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(We don’t eat donkeys or have any real use for them, and they’re doing alright)
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I was responding to the secondary aspect (what would happen to the animals) after displaying video details at the butcher of how our delicious leg of lamb was procured.
For the record my father and mother became vegetarian after my dad commented on how much a leg of lamb hanging from a hook in their local butcher;s looked like a child;s leg. And when my my agreed well, that was that.
I didn’t expect such a thing to happen overnight for goodness sake, it was merely an observation.
Maybe when/if that time arrives humans will have the required respect and moral fortitude not to run off to the countryside with a rifle.
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They were at one time used extensively as beasts of burden – still are in some places – but, as with horses, were never regarded as solely a food source.
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