Spin off.....Ignorant people!!

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Many people who live in rural or farm settings do not have the type of relationship with their animals that most of us have on this forum. I'm not saying any particular interconnection is right or wrong. They are just different. My only caveat is that ANY living creature, whether it's a dog, bird, pig, cow, whatever, be treated with decency & respect that any living thing deserves. Even if you are going to eat that creature, keep it in a humane way & dispatch it in as quick and clean a manner as you can.

What I cannot & will not tolerate is people treating other living creatures as inanimate objects. A dog is not a piece of furniture. You don't treat a dog the same way you treat your end table.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir on this subject.

You certainly are here. I have some new friends that have animals that they intend to eat one day and I have to say...I'm not so sure I really like how those animals are kept. The pens are WAY too small, overcrowded and it was really sad for me to see that. Example: chickens. Where I used to work, we had chickens that were allowed to run around the park, freely. I learned, because of this, just how...personable...chickens can really be. They have some hilarious "personalities" and are quite the little characters if treated right. Theirs are kept in overcrowded pens with hardly any room to move about, freely, without bumping in to another chicken.

Sure, there is a difference in how you spend time with a pet chicken and one you will eat, one day. You don't name them, you don't get all fond of them and hug them like we did with the chickens at my old work...but they still should be treated humanely.

I eat meat, I don't begrudge anyone who eats meat or raises animals to eat them. I couldn't do it, unless, I suppose, it was my only option and still it would be difficult for me...but animals must be treated humanely.

And yes, I get really disgusted and angry when people treat animals as if they are objects and not living, breathing creatures.

"The question is not: 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'" ~ Philosopher Jeremy Bentham