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Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters
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MikeHattsu
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Delicious
FallingEdge
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For me, eat whatever you want, just don't lecture me about your beliefs on why you eat what you eat, I don't care.
Polioliolio
Member
Living creatures are property...
Nah. Fuck that. Pigs have emotions, experience love and fear, etc. they're mammals, like you and I. That all may be legally true, but it's gross.
Meanwhile, if the farmer was killed and eaten by his pigs, I can imagine you'd not feel very neutral about that. Is it because we have technology and religion? I tend to think it's emotions, consciousness, and so on, that we value as humans.. At the very least among other animals, Mammals have all of that.
themagicalkitsune
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fucking lol
The sausages were bitchin! And oh yeah, we're sorry for eating them.
Pork chop for dinner 🔥
TickleMeElbow
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I told my mom about this and she cracked up for like 5 minutes.
Karsticles
Member
I am so hungry now. I am going to eat a ton of pig meat when I get home.
1. Yeah so you can just stop breeding them and live off other stuff, ending the hyperconsumptive loop.
2. They're mostly sentient beings. The fact that they're reared for death doesn't change that.
3. We waste an absurd amount of resources rearing them to create a very small amount of food (relatively).
FallingEdge
Member
why live off of some inferior foods? I'm trying to eat and get big.
I mean I get they were raised for slaughter regardless off the barn fire... but the transition from being rescued from a barn fire to being cooked up on a flame. I mean the term "rescued" used in the thread title is very ambiguous here.
I'm I shouldn't be one to talk though, I eat a tonne of meat. But that's my initial reaction.
I'm I shouldn't be one to talk though, I eat a tonne of meat. But that's my initial reaction.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Do people expect the farmer to just take in a bunch of pets due to the fire?
The farmer is likely undergoing financial stress due to the damages and needs to push meat quickly. These were never meant to be pets. They were meant to be food.
The farmer is likely undergoing financial stress due to the damages and needs to push meat quickly. These were never meant to be pets. They were meant to be food.
Booya_base
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Had the quote as this is one of the funniest posts I've ever seen.
Actually I read they were pretty tasty.
It's cool you think they're inferior.
I'm bigger and healthier now that I've stopped eating meat
did it about 11 months ago.As yes the good old capitalist defence which works for anything, indefensible or no. I'm sure drug dealers and arms dealers feel the same.
But I like horse jerky.
Karsticles
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1. No thanks.
2. I don't care if something is sentient. I care if it's tasty.
3. "Waste" is such a bullshit term. This isn't a post-apocalyptic world yet. I am going to enjoy the golden age of humanity while I can. I am not eating for planetary efficiency. Lol. Also, my two year old son LOVES sausage. A smile on his face is worth a hundred dead pigs!
Was it pig farms that usually have to have a cesspool lake nearby?
Though I don't have any statistics on their resource consumption.
So you're against all animal ownership I guess?
Astral Dog
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no one knows chiclen like chickens 🐔
But kinda freakish story when you think about it
Randolph Freelander
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Downright macabre.
But I understand.
But I understand.
1. All right.
2. Pretty dark. So say an alien race comes along and develops a taste for humans. Hypothetically, obviously. You're cool with that alien race eating your son? He's tasty; he's fair game.
3. Wait, wait. You said it yourself. Quote: we're not in a post-apocalyptic world YET.
The meat industry arguably causes more damage to the planet than all vehicular transport combined. That's before we even count water waste, packaging/plastic waste, etc. It's killing the lungs of the planet (accelerating deforestation more than any other industry), the oceans.
It's an incredibly problematic industry. Along with loads of other bad shit we do, we should absolutely slow it down. If we ever do end up in a post apocalypse (you yourself seem to consider it inevitable), it might well be a helping factor. Your cool with putting your kids/grandkids/great-gs in that so you can eat more "tasty" food?
For the record: i love eating meat. It's delicious. I miss sausages most of all, funnily enough. But it's the wrong thing to do, support that industry.
Saint of Killers
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It's a non issue in the sense that no law of the land was broken. I accept she had a right to slaughter the piglets after their being saved, but it just feels really weird to me that they'd do that. And I'm honestly not trying to paint either party as monsters. I just find their behaviour more odd than sinister.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It is a waste though. It's not bullshit. Raising animals for food is a less efficient form of protein generation than vegetables in terms of carbon emissions and water consumption.
Teaching our children to like veggies is a big step towards lowering our own personal carbon footprint.
Reminds me of the episode in H2G2 where the cows at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe literally offer themselves to the diners with specific questions about meat cuts and cooking.
Burning calories painting a picture or playing baseball is also a waste. Those people could be farming lettuce.
CrackPebbles
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That kinda makes me uncomfortable.
Goldenroad
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No one would be up in arms if the firemen saved the farmers crops and the farmers repaid them by baking them several loaves of bread. Seems like a kind gesture to me.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
We all do what we can. I'm not trying to make a zero sum argument. In the grand scheme of things, eating less meat isn't that big of a deal, relative to other sacrifices that might make life harder, like giving up electricity, or something more expensive, like buying an electric car or installing solar panels in one's home.
Any actual pointers? I have reduced red meat, pretty much giving it up to be honestm except for occasions. What have you been eating and did it help trim extra fat?I'm bigger and healthier now that I've stopped eating meat
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Delicious bacon seeds saved from barn fire.
Bacon seeds grown into delicious bacon and gifted to the firefighters who saved them.
No problem detected.
Bacon seeds grown into delicious bacon and gifted to the firefighters who saved them.
No problem detected.
cpp_is_king
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I love pigs that have been converted into bacon.
cpp_is_king
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In all seriousness though, if God really didn't want people eating pigs, he wouldn't have made them out of bacon.
This is kind of my take on the matter. It'd be hypocritical for me to say otherwise considering I eat meat (though I don't go out of my way to buy or order meat).
Sorry, need to go to sleep. I'll respond tomorrow.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Horse meat is awesome, fuck that bullshit law preventing us from eating it in the US regularly.
buttery fistful
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I get a huge craving for it whenever I'm reading ASOIAF, oddly enough
Diablohead
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I'd feel really bad eating those sausages.
Red Liquorice
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Sounds like something slave owners would've said at one time about people born in to slavery.
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