Yet again, none of this has anything to do with eating the animal before it has matured, which was the original comment you responded to.
I dont know if you just cant read, or what, but nothing youve said is eating chicks before theyve reached adulthood. I can repeat this for you as much as you like until it clicks, but there isnt a way to dumb it down any further than already done.
Ok, I see where you’re coming from. Yes, the chicken has grown its adult feathers and size, while the lamb still has some growing to do. But in terms of the portion of its feasible life span, and in terms of being “mature” enough to eat, where the quality of the meat would drop off afterwards, the average commercial meat chicken reaches meat maturity quicker and misses out on more of its life than your average lamb does. The commercial meat chicken generally has a worse life than a lamb does. Yet people feel more sympathy towards cute little lambs than chickens.
Even if the lifespans and conditions were exactly the same, the point I’m making is that people feel more sympathy towards one type of animal when another should be at least just as worthy of it. The fact that it’s a “baby” is irrelevant, because the justification for feeling that way about babies is that it hasn’t had the chance to live a full life.
Saying it’s ok to kill a chicken but not ok to kill a lamb is like saying that it’s ok to send an underage man off to war because he hit puberty early.
Yet again, none of this has anything to do with eating the animal before it has matured, which was the original comment you responded to.
I dont know if you just cant read, or what, but nothing youve said is eating chicks before theyve reached adulthood. I can repeat this for you as much as you like until it clicks, but there isnt a way to dumb it down any further than already done.
Ok, I see where you’re coming from. Yes, the chicken has grown its adult feathers and size, while the lamb still has some growing to do. But in terms of the portion of its feasible life span, and in terms of being “mature” enough to eat, where the quality of the meat would drop off afterwards, the average commercial meat chicken reaches meat maturity quicker and misses out on more of its life than your average lamb does. The commercial meat chicken generally has a worse life than a lamb does. Yet people feel more sympathy towards cute little lambs than chickens.
Even if the lifespans and conditions were exactly the same, the point I’m making is that people feel more sympathy towards one type of animal when another should be at least just as worthy of it. The fact that it’s a “baby” is irrelevant, because the justification for feeling that way about babies is that it hasn’t had the chance to live a full life.
Saying it’s ok to kill a chicken but not ok to kill a lamb is like saying that it’s ok to send an underage man off to war because he hit puberty early.
What if we breed an animal to be mature at birth? Is that more or less ethical to eat than a lamb?
Also I’d like to apologise for saying you were being an ass - I was clearly the one doing that. It’s been a pleasure chatting with you overall.
Literally no hard feelings, we are faceless strangers arguing on a platform designed to encourage sass, a mood thats 90% tone.
Nah, you were fine.