They are all our friends and we have no right to eat them.
Dogs are our good friends, but pigs are not?
Nowadays, there are many pets at home. In the eyes of dog owners, dogs are human friends. It is unthinkable to eat dog meat. They disdain to associate with people who eat dog meat. Indeed, dogs are very spiritual animals and are very loyal to their owners. New research has found that dogs have complex emotions like human sympathy and can communicate with people. Dog owners, though denouncing people who eat dog meat as cruel and unloving, think that their behavior of eating pork is justified, which has been the case since ancient times. So, are pigs really our food? There is nothing wrong with us loving dogs, but why are pigs eaten? How is the status difference between dogs and pigs formed? Let's look at history.
In the long-term hunting practice, early humans found that in order to supplement food, some young wild animals could be brought home to feed, and some of them were gradually domesticated into livestock, resulting in primitive animal husbandry. Dogs and goats were domesticated first, then pigs, cows, donkeys and horses, then turkeys and chickens. There are also some archaeological discoveries that pigs were domesticated even earlier than dogs. A large number of domestic pig fossils have been unearthed from Hemudu site, which is about 7000 to 6000 years ago. In any case, pigs and dogs are the earliest domesticated animals, which can be said to have a special relationship with humans.
An important purpose of raising animals in primitive animal husbandry is to supplement the deficiency of primitive agriculture and provide food. Now it seems that an animal needs to meet several conditions before it is suitable for being raised. First, this animal can't be wild and difficult to tame. Wolves and bears do not meet this condition; Second, animals must be omnivores or herbivores, and all carnivores are not qualified. Because the purpose of raising animals is to get meat, if animals want to eat meat themselves, they can't afford it. Third, this animal is neither too big nor too small. Too big is a threat to people, and too small can't provide enough meat. For example, mice are too small. Fourth, this kind of animal is prolific, and it is not appropriate to have one child or less every few years. Horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs and chickens were called six animals in ancient times, all of which met the above conditions. In other words, in the primitive animal husbandry period, the main purpose of raising animals was to provide food. At that time, the fate and function of dogs and pigs had not yet differentiated.
Later, people gradually discovered in practice that under the conditions at that time, horses, cows and dogs were more useful for production and life. For example, dogs can look after houses and help their owners graze and hunt. Sheep, pigs and chickens are relatively useless and gradually become food. With the division of labor, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for pigs to communicate with their owners. In order to eat pork with peace of mind, people put some bad names on pigs, such as laziness, stupidity and filth. In fact, when domesticated, there is not much difference between pigs and dogs. The tragedy of a pig is that if it is as wild as a wolf, it can continue to live in the wild and live a free life. After submission to others, it is regarded as food because of its little use.
Now times are different, productivity has developed greatly, and human beings no longer need animal husbandry to supplement food. Modern agriculture can provide richer and more reasonable food than meat. On the other hand, dogs no longer need to go home to graze and hunt and become pets and family members in the family. However, due to historical reasons, the food status of pigs has not changed. After reading the above introduction, we can know that dogs are pets and pigs are food, but these people who eat pork are behind the times now. Why do you say that? Because, for these people, the prejudice imposed on pigs for thousands of years has not been eliminated. Let's make the name of the pig clear! The latest scientific research proves that pigs are smarter than dogs. The trainer taught pigs and dogs to open the door. The pig will open the door after watching it five times, and the dog will open the door after learning 10 times. Pigs have a more sensitive sense of smell than dogs, and some airports have begun to use pigs to check hidden weapons and drugs. Pigs are cleaner than dogs. Now the new fashion is to keep a pet pig, and anyone who has ever kept a pet pig can prove it.
Turning a blind eye to the selectivity of meat source is a cover-up of selfishness and greed.
Can you eat meat safely by separating the "meat on the plate" from the meat on the animal?
You can see such a picture in the TV documentary channel's "Beast World" program: a tiger, a leopard and other beasts jumped on a cow or a deer and bit off a bloody piece of meat. Some people think it's cruel to watch it any longer. However, why can the same person eat beef and pork with peace of mind? Because the meat people buy in the market is washed away with blood and divided in the butcher shop. The meat was cut into cubes and even covered with plastic wrap, which "looks like food". People further cut the meat into small pieces or pieces before cooking, so that it is difficult to think of the source of the meat when eating. I often see pictures of some animal protectors protesting naked. They use' ribs',' hooves' and' tenderloin' to mark the relevant parts of their bodies, reminding the public that the meat you eat is an inseparable part of the animal's body and it is a life. You can only get this meat by killing. In fact, people who eat meat don't even have this common sense, but deliberately "don't think about the source of this meat" when eating meat. There used to be a joke. When someone asks a child who is not sensible, where do apples and pears grow? The child's answer is: in the supermarket. Children answer this way because they are not sensible, but people who eat meat think that meat comes from butcher shops and are a little deaf. When someone thinks he doesn't understand and explains the origin of meat to him seriously, he will get angry instead. "Don't spoil my appetite!" Is the most common complaint, indicating that he is not really ignorant. Because he can't find a reason for his carnivorous behavior and doesn't want to change it. I have to assume that' meat is just ordinary food bought in the store' to anesthetize myself and give myself a relief. However, can this practice of stealing clocks really alleviate the guilt of meat eaters and bring spiritual relief?
Do as you would be done by.
One reason for carnivorism is that people are better than animals, and animals are born to eat. This view is essentially advocating the law of the jungle. Although we think that human beings are civilized and different from wild animals, in order to find reasons for meat, we have to go out of the jungle law. This reminds me of the ingenious argumentation method used by robert nozick, a famous contemporary American philosopher, when advocating vegetarianism. He said, "People take eating meat for granted, because people think that the animals being eaten are far less sensible and intelligent than people, so if one day a species superior to humans really comes to the earth from another planet and applies the same standards, then they can eat with us with peace of mind." That's a good point! I wonder: At that time, our friends who advocate the rationality of meat will be willing to contribute every piece of meat to us? If alien species set up a' human farm' for the convenience of eating at any time and locked us in it without any freedom of movement, would we feel very happy if we were raised for them to eat? I believe that no one will accept this "arrangement" and will definitely rise up and resist, preferring death to surrender. Then, why should we ask the animals in pig farms, cattle farms and chicken farms to accept the arrangements imposed by us? This arrangement stipulates that the task of these animals coming into this world is to contribute their bodies and lives to satisfy people's appetite for meat. Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you. You know, every animal is also afraid of death and unwilling to accept the fate of being killed. Every animal is also afraid of pain, and it can't stand cutting its skin with a knife, let alone peeling it. Impose, there will be future trouble. Animals don't organize to resist like humans, but when they are killed, the mixed emotions of resentment, pain and anger will inevitably affect meat eaters, and recently they will turn into toxins and enter the meat, and finally they will be eaten by meat eaters. From a deeper perspective, hundreds of millions of animals are slaughtered every year around the world, and the grievances are getting deeper and deeper, which has affected the global environment. Now the weather is abnormal and natural disasters are frequent, so it can't be said that it has nothing to do with it. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals says, "If you have food, you will be safe." The word "time" in this sentence is properly explained. We have no reason to eat animal meat, because people are stronger than animals.