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- Dec 25, 2019
People try to argue this often and I'm getting pretty sick of the "debate."Going to play devil's advocate here and say who the fuck cares what species of animal is being eaten? You're socialized to accept certain kinds of animals being used for meat and others used for pets, when it's just as possible to have those meat animals for pets. They're certainly intelligent enough. It's not about what you eat.
- Dogs are companion animals. Domesticated cows, pigs and chickens were not bred to be your friend. They (sort of) trust humans but do not bond with us like dogs.
- Dogs are not typically killed in a humane way in any countries that consume them. They are kept in the mammalian equivalent of a lobster tank. Humane treatment and slaughter is a very western concept.
- There is no "food dog" breed. If you take a nureongi outside of a slaughterhouse environment and treat them as a pet, it's painfully obvious that they possess all the same faculties (such as empathy) as pet dog breeds.
- The fact that it takes western shaming for any of these cultures (Asian, Middle Eastern) to be nice to dogs is proof that animal empathy is not inherent, least of all in Hasan, who could be torn apart by strays tomorrow and it would be a cosmic net-benefit.