Chickens have been domesticated a long time ago because they were around, flightless, and easy to breed. You won't even see a penguin until you reach high latitudes and they eat fish... Even if they both tasted good (which I have no idea) very obvious practical reasons would explain the difference.
That's the practicality for why thing are the way they are. My argument is about starting up a baby penguin slaughterhouse in the north pole right now and how much activist resistance you will get versus a crocodile meat slaughter house in Florida.
Demand and economic viability. Likely the usual explanation.
My only rationale for why it's OK for me to eat pigs is that the pigs would definitely eat me if the opportunity arose, and in this respect they are different from say, cows, or indeed octopuses, which show no inclination to consume human meat. If you (as sometimes happens to farmers) drop dead in a pig sty after not long the pigs will eat you because you're food and they're hungry.
Cats will do this too; do you support eating house cats?
My only rationale for why it's OK for me to eat pigs is that the pigs would definitely eat me if the opportunity arose, and in this respect they are different from say, cows, or indeed octopuses, which show no inclination to consume human meat. If you (as sometimes happens to farmers) drop dead in a pig sty after not long the pigs will eat you because you're food and they're hungry.
Cats will do this too; do you support eating house cats?
I think cats would taste awful but if other people want to eat cats I have no objection that wouldn't just as well apply to my consumption of pork.
Smarter then dogs. The criteria for edibility is mainly ugliness vs. Cuteness. Octopuses are recently getting more media attention with that movie about the diver that made friends with one so they are getting cuter. Try farm raising and eating baby penguins you'll get the same reaction even though penguins are dumb AF. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
My only rationale for why it's OK for me to eat pigs is that the pigs would definitely eat me if the opportunity arose, and in this respect they are different from say, cows, or indeed octopuses, which show no inclination to consume human meat. If you (as sometimes happens to farmers) drop dead in a pig sty after not long the pigs will eat you because you're food and they're hungry.
This argument has appeared multiple times in this thread, and I'm genuinely curious: if pigs' behavior demonstrates to you that their status is low enough to warrant their treatment, why does adopting that behavior seem like a reasonable reaction? Or would you find a pig killing and eating a human to be a morally neutral incident that, while maybe not preferable, has no ultimate weight to consider?
I wonder if its easier to grow octopus flesh vs meat. Meat has the issue of all the blood vessels and stuff, but my off the head take seems that octopus might avoid that sort of issue?
Octopus flesh has the issue of containing the majority of the octopus’ neurons [0]. Life is weird . [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc...
I wonder is this is what makes octopus meat tasty.
In the 1970's I went on a field trip to a trout farm in New York (USA, obvs.). They fed plant food pellets to this giant whirling silos of fish. Not sure if salmon can eat plants but trout sure can. Of course, that was the 70's, and just one fish farm.
Trout are salmon are trout. Some species even bridge freshwater to salt. Sockeye come to mind, a few populations are completely landlocked.
The ocean food web rests on algae. Every creature in the sea eats algae indirectly . Every wild-caught fish.
That's not a reasonable way to think about it in this context. If a small fish eats algae that is poisonous to us, it's likely able to metabolize the poison and not itself be poisonous to its predators or to us.
Chickens have been domesticated a long time ago because they were around, flightless, and easy to breed. You won't even see a penguin until you reach high latitudes and they eat fish... Even if they both tasted good (which I have no idea) very obvious practical reasons would explain the difference.
That's the practicality for why thing are the way they are. My argument is about starting up a baby penguin slaughterhouse in the north pole right now and how much activist resistance you will get versus a crocodile meat slaughter house in Florida.
I'm pretty sure there are no crocodiles in Florida, only alligators.