Good post. I eat a lot of veggie food, including yum bean burgers.
Eat fish mostly Alaskan salmon, pasture-raised eggs, and grass-fed beef. Never eat pork because pigs are as smart, if not smarter, than dogs and are treated with hideous cruelty.
I can never be, and do not want to be a vegetarian, but cruelty is NOT OK with me.
“Never eat pork because pigs are as smart, if not smarter, than dogs and are treated with hideous cruelty.”
They may be somewhere. I live in one of the highest hog production areas in the world and the ones here have it pretty easy. They are well taken care of, fed well, and attended to medically. It’s just good business practice. As you said they are intelligent. If some of them are being abused the rest know and become stressed. That results in sickness and low appetite, which cuts into profit. Not saying I’d trade places with them.