Bacon tastes good, porkchops taste good...
That pig would have to be ten times more charming than Arnold on Green Acres.
Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
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#32Bacon tastes good, porkchops taste good...
+1...I was going to say that the author apparently has never tasted bacon....everything becomes much simpler after that :). If we judged our behavior based on how intelligent the species is that we are doing something to...I believe war would be a non-starter, no?
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#33> Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other? Well, we don't eat people with mental issues either, or think it's OK to eat them just because they aren't "smart". It was never about the smartness, it's about the utility (including being a guardian, keeping company, etc), breeding capabilities/size, and/or taste. Plus customs. Some cultures do eat dogs. Some don't eat pigs.
Pigs aren't cute either.
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#34The thing is that dogs love to eat human shit. No other animal does that. That is how they started cohabitating with humans, cleaning the cave from dead people and shit.
As a proctection they also evolved to be less tasty. "Tastes like piss" said older Noko, because in the Lappland War 1944, there was food shortage, and they ate everything. Except humans only occasionally. There are several reports of human fingernails in the spam-cans, that German distributed freely to their allies in Finland.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uuuh...dogs can't eat any type of food. Everyday things like garlic, onions, avocado and chocolate, in no big a serving, can kill them in a relatively short time. Please be aware of our little friends can and should eat.
In Russia, nobody knows that dogs can’t eat any type of food. The dogs there don’t know this either.
Such a weird comment. Are you proud of large-scale animal abuse or what exactly is the point you are trying to make here? As someone born in the former Soviet Union, “Russia does things this way” is not a good thing.
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#36Re: Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
#37I think it's good that people become aware of their dietary hypocrisy in their lives. Not many animals are treated more cruelly than pigs raised for food consumption with the exception of chickens perhaps. The problem is that culturally around the world, all kinds of animals end up on dinner plates that are unacceptable to other cultures. There is no right or wrong. The only solution is compassion for other animals s…
>If a person is really compassionate, they will not eat any animals. I had the opportunity to live in an impoverished area of the Phillipines for several years- I met many kinds of people, some of whom were the most compassionate and selfless individuals I've ever known. After seeing the meals of dogs and cats they need to eat to survive because they can't afford any other lifestyle, I can say with no reservations at…
True. However if they had better means they’d chose to go vegetarian right?
Re: Pigs are as smart as dogs. Why do we eat one and love the other?
#38I think it's good that people become aware of their dietary hypocrisy in their lives. Not many animals are treated more cruelly than pigs raised for food consumption with the exception of chickens perhaps. The problem is that culturally around the world, all kinds of animals end up on dinner plates that are unacceptable to other cultures. There is no right or wrong. The only solution is compassion for other animals s…
>If a person is really compassionate, they will not eat any animals. I had the opportunity to live in an impoverished area of the Phillipines for several years- I met many kinds of people, some of whom were the most compassionate and selfless individuals I've ever known. After seeing the meals of dogs and cats they need to eat to survive because they can't afford any other lifestyle, I can say with no reservations at…
How can you hurt/eat any animal if you care about the suffering of all living entities?
What you are describing is a type of isolated compassion but it is relegated to homo-sapiens, it is not a universal compassion of which i am referring to, to which the Buddha refers to.
Compassion is sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it. This is the dictionary definition.
This is essentially just referring to people's distress, of which you witnessed. Empathy.
However, compassion is more complicated and detailed. "In Buddhism, the ideal of practice is to selflessly act to alleviate suffering wherever it appears." Note, wherever it appears, not just humans, everything.
Suffering and compassion go hand in hand. If you see any suffering of any creature, you want to alleviate it.
In The Essence of the Heart Sutra, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote,
"According to Buddhism, compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind, wanting others to be free from suffering. It's not passive — it's not empathy alone — but rather an empathetic altruism that actively strives to free others from suffering. Genuine compassion must have both wisdom and lovingkindness. That is to say, one must understand the nature of the suffering from which we wish to free others (this is wisdom), and one must experience deep intimacy and empathy with other sentient beings (this is lovingkindness)."
Still not convinced? I can tell. Don't take my word. Listen to Master Thich Nhat Hanh explain:
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If a person is really compassionate, they will not eat any animals. I had the opportunity to live in an impoverished area of the Phillipines for several years- I met many kinds of people, some of whom were the most compassionate and selfless individuals I've ever known. After seeing the meals of dogs and cats they need to eat to survive because they can't afford any other lifestyle, I can say with no reservations at…
True. However if they had better means they’d chose to go vegetarian right?
No. You see the abundant food choices in developed countries and yet only a small percentage of the population is vegetarian or vegan.
The reason why people choose a vegetarian/vegan diet is also varied and sometimes has nothing to do with wanting to stop the suffering of animals. Losing weight, a healthier body, peer group pressure are alternate motivations.
The decisive factor is not poverty.
I was also in the Philippines, and I was able to eat quite well for my 3 months there. I ate rice, beans, fruits and vegetables. My costs were the same as a local.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
True. However if they had better means they’d chose to go vegetarian right?
No. You see the abundant food choices in developed countries and yet only a small percentage of the population is vegetarian or vegan. The reason why people choose a vegetarian/vegan diet is also varied and sometimes has nothing to do with wanting to stop the suffering of animals. Losing weight, a healthier body, peer group pressure are alternate motivations. The decisive factor is not poverty. I was also in the Phil…
>I was also in the Philippines, and I was able to eat quite well for my 3 months there.
This right here tells me that you were not living in or even among the truly impoverished individuals I mentioned. Not a single family I've referred to is "able to eat quite well". Do you honestly believe anyone would eat the rancid trash strays running around their tarp/salvaged wood hovel if they had any other option? Your inability to accept the reality of this kind of desperation and suffering tells me how much of this true compassion you actually feel.