/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6964195
I get that it's all they know since they're born into it, but saying that makes it okay, they don't know any better, and it's okay because you like the taste is the same as others that hurt or kill others because they enjoy it.
It's just dumbfounding that many of those who would grant rights to human babies, cats, dogs, and other animals they respect in an instant won't even begin to concede the rights of other beings that are, by most accounts, far more intelligent than a human infant, or cats and dogs, etc. Fortunately, Rene Descartes' idiocy about animals operating like unthinking machines has been exposed a long time ago (his idea works for plants, not animals). All animals, from insects to whales, are rational, aware, self-aware, intelligent beings. They experience an array of emotions, especially pain and happiness.
If animals and insects aren't aware, then what are they? If they are NOT capable of feeling pain, then what do they feel? Eating, sleeping, drinking, surviving, procreating, looking for shelter, building a home, defending themselves and saving each other aren't instinctual behaviors. They are thoughts attached to actions. It's the human animal who operates instinctively. Very few people think for themselves and come to rational conclusions. Pulling into McDonald's for a Big Mac is NOT rational thought. It happens because the media, the government, schools and parents tell people to do it. If humans were rational, we wouldn't be killing the animals, the earth and ourselves!

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