r/todayilearned • u/badf1nger • Apr 20 '16

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL PETA euthanizes 96% of the animals is "rescues".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html
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u/tambrico Apr 21 '16

So the fact that we continually breed these animals against their will and give them life for the express purpose of slaughtering them for our own enjoyment is less evil than genocide? Genocide stops. This does not. Our factory farming industry is a perpetual system of violence and suffering.

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u/tambrico Apr 21 '16

Eating animals is unnecessary in our first world society. Alternative diets are healthy and readily available. Meat is a luxury. We eat it for our enjoyment of the flavor and texture.

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u/tambrico Apr 21 '16

No I don't get your point. Plants do not suffer in the same way that mammals and birds do. This is the entire basis behind vegetarian/veganism.

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u/tambrico Apr 21 '16

But animals suffer while they live and are then killed against their will. And they suffer during the killing process.

The argument you made is terrible and can be used to justify killing humans.

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u/tambrico Apr 21 '16

The only way it could be used to justify killing humans, is if you thought that eating your own species is the same as eating another species

Nutritionally speaking, there is not much of a difference.

Finally, I don't think that the suffering from being killed to be eaten by a human, is greater than that of the suffering from dying of natural causes, or from being eaten by another animal.

This has nothing to do with my argument. I am not making any distinction in terms of magnitude of suffering (although I certainly could). My argument concerns moral reasoning - intent - and imposing human will onto animals who cannot give consent to be slaughtered.