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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The dog only existed to serve her

Uh.. What do you think animals bred for slaughter are?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's a different definition of "serve".
Pigs aren't trained to do tasks then slaughtered if they fail.
They're bred specifically for slaughter and then killed when they reach prime weight.

A "life on the farm" story doesn't convey an implied threat of if you cause me problems you may get shot in the head like this does.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, instead they're bred explicitly to kill, they don't even have the chance to earn the right to live a full life serving humans

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sure but that's a separate convo.
I just answered the question of why the governor of South Dakota boasting about shooting her (and her daughter's) dog dead because it wasn't progressing along with training in a way she approved of is more horrifying to me than the existence of the slaughter industry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

It's fair to say this person is much more deranged than the average meat defender, but the core issue of animal slaughter remains in this instance and in meat consumption. An animal's life was cut short because a human decided they wanted to do that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

A "life on the farm" story doesn't convey an implied threat

it would if the children in the metaphor see the family livestock being treated by their parents the way industrial dairy and beef cattle are typically abused instead of some homestead fantasy