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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (96244)	2/21/2005 5:21:56 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't dispute that pigs are smart animals. What I dispute is that they are as smart as a three year old human.

To: Grainne who wrote (96244)	2/21/2005 10:35:39 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Pigs are such interesting curious animals. Rambi and I have been discussing this. The studies that involved pigs using joysticks and solving problems were particularly interesting. Sometimes people are simply very defensive when it comes to what they eat. I'm sure people who eat great apes and dolphins would probably make fun of you if you told them how intelligent the animals are. It's a defense mechanism, Grainne. There isn't much you can do about it. Just keep putting the information out there, and eventually people will get the idea that these are intelligent and very sensitive animals. It's terrible that the stun guns frequently don't kill them, and they die in the scalding water meant to help tenderize their skin. Empathy, Grainne. Not everyone has it, and some people are incapable of extending it to animals. Though there are those strange people who adore their dogs (which are less intelligent than pigs) and yet they can eat, without a thought, pigs who have been tortured as they died. Go figure.