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

To: ManyMoose who wrote (101705)	5/1/2005 7:59:50 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

If chickens have enough intellect to solve complex puzzles, and if they have all of the basic human emotions, and will willingly sacrifice themselves to protect their own young, why is their suffering not similar to that of humans? If you are saying that humans are more important, certainly if we were factory farming human babies there would be a much bigger outcry. But there is suffering nonetheless. The Europeans are going through an exercise now where they are determining species by species whether meat animals/fish are capable of pain and suffering. If they are, then they are considerably tightening the laws so to that in the future these animals will not suffer. If humans know that animals suffer and they do nothing about it because they simply want cheap food supplies, what does that say about humans? I think it says we are less ethical than animals are, a lower life form, really, even though we have the upper hand.