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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (867934)	6/25/2015 6:32:14 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576310

>>I also wonder if that pig had been a dog instead.<< As Hillary said, "What difference would it make?" Meat is meat. A pig is probably as smart as a dog. modernfarmer.com Candace Croney is an Associate Professor of Animal Sciences at Purdue University and once taught pigs to play video games. (More on that later.) She says she understands the urge to compare animals to humans when it comes to smarts, but that the “boring science definition” of intelligence is this:

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (867934)	6/26/2015 4:16:03 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576310

I was just responding to the supposed health benefits of eating organic, not the morality of raising animals for meat. I am not even going that far...if you chose to eat meat you should be aware of the hormones and antibiotics and pesticides you are ingesting. if you are not aware of this issue you may want to do some research. But to be more nuanced, raising animals that are slaughtered for meat humanely is what I am talking about. I also wonder if that pig had been a dog instead. It makes absolutely no difference. Animals are our stewardship. Dogs, cows, pigs...whatever...wild or farm raised....we have a moral responsibility to treat them humanely, not as depicted in that video showing the caged chicken. Al