Let's take a look at the next item on the list. Supposedly, the animals we eat are intelligent creatures who deserve the same rights and protections as dogs and cats.
GoVeg.com provides quite a bit of information on chickens, pigs, fish, turkeys, cows, ducks, and geese. Apparently, all of these animals have secretly had an amazing level of intelligence that nobody noticed for years.
Cows can solve problems and get excited by solving them.
Chickens understand that eating painkillers makes them feel better.
Fish can learn to escape a net.
Pigs are apparently smarter than the average human baby (but then agan, what isn't?). That's nice and all, but we don't keep dogs and cats as pets because they're good problem-solvers; we keep them because they're good company. Granted, should these animals be mistreated because they aren't "pet-worthy?" Of course not. But the idea that we should compare these animals to pets (and even people) is absurd.
In short, I was not impressed by this nonsense argument. I'm not going to replace my dog with a pet cow anytime soon. Maybe the animal cruelty argument just set the bar too high... We'll see when I check out the next item on the list.
Works Cited
"Amazing Animals."
GoVeg.com. PETA. 23 Oct. 2008
http://www.goveg.com/amazinganimals.asp.
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