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Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters
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Enjoy sitting on your high horse. I'll enjoy eating mine.
They weren't more or less living creatures than all the other animals we raise and turn into food.
I mean, they were there because a building was on fire. Saying they rescued pigs is how you attemp to create a controversy over the farmer gifting the sausages these pigs were always destined to become 6 months after the fire was put out.
BasilZero
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Same here, this was a bit disturbing.
I don't think people are having issue with them being used for meat, rather who they were served to. Its a bit dark.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
What does this even mean? Yea we raised them to eat but they're still living creatures that exhibit emotion and pain.
A lot of people are weirdly defensive about and threatened by the idea of vegetarians... doesn't really bother me because I think it kind of betrays the fact that they're uncomfortable with their meat eating on some level.
metalslimer
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You think the firefighters had some emotional attachment to these pigs?
kruis
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What are you talking about? I love animals: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, duck rabbit .. it's all delicious.
RichiRamjag
Member
Lol. So now we're on to canniballism? Some of you are just silly.
Phrozenflame500
Member
Meh, I don't think it's possible to eat meat and still be offended by this. If you're a vegan/vegetarian then be my guest and be morally outraged but otherwise I view the callousness as just being honest with yourself.
Vincent Grayson
Member
I feel like you mostly see this behavior when self-righteous folks in the vegan/vegetarian community come out and get mad about something that makes perfect sense.
These animals were bred to be food. Their entire existence was brought about for that purpose. Of course they were still killed, cooked, and eaten despite being saved from the fire.
Waddle Dee
Member
Yeah, I eat sausage all the time but the idea of saving these piglets, and then being the ones to eat them later just feels a bit... heartless?
Like yeah, they'd die regardless but it's kind of fucked up.
PdotMichael
Banned
How is it dark? or how would it be less dark if the meat ended in a supermarket instead?
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Yeah, because a pig raised on a farm by a dedicated farmer is totally the same a dog being slaughtered in the middle of the street under stress.
I bet you those pigs get better lives than some people. Not every farm animal is raised in harsh conditions and slaughtered under stress.
Kitsunebaby
Member
I love sausage more than I could ever describe, but I don't know that I could really eat an animal that I knew and cared for while it was alive.
While I completely understand that they were bred for slaughter, serving them to the people who "saved" them is a little bit weird to me. They were saved only to be slaughtered, and they were slaughtered only to have the meat donated instead of bringing a profit. Makes the whole thing feel like an exercise in futility.
While I completely understand that they were bred for slaughter, serving them to the people who "saved" them is a little bit weird to me. They were saved only to be slaughtered, and they were slaughtered only to have the meat donated instead of bringing a profit. Makes the whole thing feel like an exercise in futility.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
That is dark.
I see you're one of those people.
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
At no point did I refer to the reason these animals exist. I was simply speaking to how a lot of animals are treated when raised and slaughtered. Maybe not in this particular story, but that picture with the dog sparked my imagination and just brought back memories of the heinous shit I used to see in Facebook videos posted of slaughterhouses.
Honestly, the idea that you're fine with eating meat unless you know where it came from is much darker than this.
Why not? We're animals all the same. If at some point in the future something like Soylent Green gets made from dead people for our nutrition and consumption, would you eat it?
TheLostBigBoss
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I think the issue is people are humanizing and getting pictures of firefighters rushing into the barn, picking up the pigs, wrapping them in blankets and jumping out of the exploding barn.
And then taking an axe to their skull and serving them up on the chard remains of the barn.
I mean, if you ignore that the main argument of eating meat is human live is always more valuable than other species (even with a curve), then sure.
And then taking an axe to their skull and serving them up on the chard remains of the barn.
I mean, if you ignore that the main argument of eating meat is human live is always more valuable than other species (even with a curve), then sure.
Yeah, and that was what they were for anyway.
However, it would be weird eating something that you saved if I'm honest.
Protecting your food/income is normal though.
I'm sure believing this helps you get through the day.
RichiRamjag
Member
Because it's ridiculous. Your other nonsense point isn't worth entertaining either, sorry.
metalslimer
Member
Yep. People keep projecting human emotions onto this situation like they were little children saved and then served up for dinner.
Lol we are heading for an animal genocide post any time now.
CloudyTuba
Member
It's kind of a strange situation, yeah. Like...why did those firefighters spend time and money saving them if they were going to get killed on the firefighter's behalf. Was it worth putting their own lives in danger to save their own lunch? Not bad but a weird end to the story.
That's what I think when I see a sentence like this:
"I gave those animals the best quality of life I could ever give until the time they go to slaughter..."
It's times like this that remind me I need to stop being a lazy asshole and go veggie. I would never be able to make a statement like that with a straight face.
Indeed.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
The issue you're having is you think people have this thought in the back of their head on a regular basis.
When in reality most people don't care.
Aeriscloud
Banned
A deliciously dark tale.
King Gilga
Member
Would it taste as good as pork?
Humans are scum, yes.
RichiRamjag
Member
I doubt the firefighters got a call that pigs needed saving specifically. There was a fire, they put it out. Pigs happened to be there.
Nostremitus
Member
They are livestock.
Nothing wrong with the farmer giving the firefighters a cut in thanks for saving the farm.
Nothing wrong with the farmer giving the firefighters a cut in thanks for saving the farm.
Burning alive is the same as getting slaughtered now?
Also: PETA kills dogs and cats. They don't get to have a say in this.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6612490
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Sure, if you think people eating meat makes them scum, then go with that
jakonovski
Member
It's kinda Cartman esque though. Do you know what you're eating, Scott?
Are you calling me scum because I enjoy eating meat products?
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Yes, you're scum in his/her eyes
Gotta stay morally superior, it's important. I have no delusions about meat eating personally, if I had to slaughter everything I ate myself, I'd do that.
Same tbh. Although with horse it's just the taste I do not like, not the whole "pet" thing.
they don't need to for it to be dark
The average super market goer didn't rescue them, for once.
Speaking of people being ain't shit, I initially laughed when I read this headline.
CloudyTuba
Member
I guess if the saving of the animals was completely incidental to their firefighting efforts and never one of their goals then that's not quite as strange an ending but I don't think the article specifies so it's hard to say.
What curve would that be? We don't eat dogs or cats because it isn't in the culture of North Americans, and many pet owners value their pets as much as they would their other loved ones. Seems pretty subjective.
Dismissing it doesn't make it go away!
Dog is delicious too apparently.
This guy loves getting murdered for food.
He was bred to be slaughtered guys. It's fine.
The difference here is that animals like cats and dogs were domesticated in the West. Odd question btw, but would you say the same thing about insects as food? Is that cruel too?
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