Comment by mikestorrent
11 hours ago
> The reason humans ban animal cruelty is that animals look like they have emotions humans can relate to.
Is that really why?
11 hours ago
> The reason humans ban animal cruelty is that animals look like they have emotions humans can relate to.
Is that really why?
Yes, we don't ban plant cruelty or insect cruelty or fish cruelty.
For example fish is treated way worse than meat animals and vegetarians still happily eat fish.
This does not sound like any of the several vegetarians I know. Is it a cultural difference?
In Scandinavia in particular, there’s a tendency of pescatarians to refer to themselves as vegetarian for social convenience, but that hasn’t changed the definition of “vegetarian”.
Are we actually much more cruel to fish than to other animals that we slaughter?
We suffocate them to kill them when we pull them from the sea. That's quite mean. Few people would advocate the humanity of killing a cow in the same way.
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> vegetarians still happily eat fish
I've not met any vegetarians in at least twenty years that eat fish.
shrimp welfare is a real thing people argue for...
Citation.... not _needed_, but just morbid curiousity
> vegetarians still happily eat fish
Please look up what a vegetarian is.