It is a little bit arbitrary which animals we are completely comfortable raising for slaughter, and which we would get thrown into prison for killing. Are pigs much less intelligent than cats? And if intelligence is the threshold metric, where is the line drawn?
What’s wrong with eating pussies?
1. I don’t think they appear on the menu as “cat”, so customers are getting lied to.
2. I don’t think they were bred for slaughter. They were strays or somebody’s pet that were taken. Impossible to know now which were stolen pets and which were strays, probably.
So, even if there is no distinction based on intelligence or whatever, there is enough “yuck” here to disapprove of.
but what I find disturbing is that we have groups over there saving cats....yet where are the groups to save the little girl babies?.....this is paganism when animals are valued more than humans.....worship of false gods...
Agreed. If that was the metric, there’d be a lot of soylent green floating around.
I believe it's been demonstrated that pigs are smarter than most domestic pets with the possible exception of parrots.
Could just as easily have been a truck load of St Bernards.