JasonKaotic said:
It's got nothing to do with copying the animals. It's to do with ethics. Other animals don't farm because they don't have the ability to. We shouldn't because it's wrong. So it's nothing to do with copying. I believe that animals should have the chance to live instead of being stuck in a small area of grass their entire lives, to be dragged away and shot or decapitated or however the particular abbatoir does it before ANY of them get ANY chance to live their whole lives. Entire species of animals imprisoned and butchered. The fact that you're assuming I want to stop farming just to copy other animals proves you haven't listened to anything I've said.
Well that's just a waste, we should feed, house and care for animals for up to a DECADE before eating them?
Why should we keep animals bred for meat alive for so long? In the wild that doesn't happen, predators WILL target the young even newborn animals and eat them without hesitation. What the hell would a pig do in 10 years that it won't do in two or three, the time it gets to grow big enough?
Look, these animals cost a lot to be kept alive, they only bred at all for their meat, waiting till their meat is terrible quality as their body is falling apart makes no sense. You act as if these farm animals are like people who would live varied, fulfilling and productive lives if they had the chance.
I've worked on a farm with animals, there isn't much to them. I mean if you draw the line of valued consciousness at this level then soon your roomba hoover is going to have a right to live.