What the hell is the matter with some people?

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A WoW blogger I read made a facetious sort of post about bacon today, and in the comments, there was this:

# deecee says

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[alice_bunnie]

It's stuff like that that gives vegans, vegetarians and animal rights people a bad name.

[suhl]

Animals aren't people. Seems so obvious, and yet...

[auryn29a]

Ah, but people are animals. We just happen to be the dominant lifeform. The reality is we humans kill other creatures for food. But so does everything else. That's the circle of life. If I stopped feeding them, my cats would eventually eat me. I get that.

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Tigger nibbles my chin already. I prefer to think of it as love nibbles, rather than a taste test.

[hap]

That's why I'm posting here, and not there. :) While I have many vegetarian friends (is that like "my best friend is black"?), none of them have ever been like this, at least not to me.

[auryn29a]

One hopes the animal or child in question is actually dead before "becoming" bacon. I imagine that would in fact be quite painful.

[cramer]

... as is the pig. This is the exact thing I'm thinking (and talking out loud to the laptop.) "becoming bacon" is a curing process; the pig was long dead before any part of it started becoming bacon. Now pigs are smart critters; it knows it's next when it sees the piggy in front getting killed. That said, in every industrial case I've seen (and I've seen many), the pig is killed with an air hammer to the head -- neat little hole in the head that instantly scrambles the brain like an egg at IHOP. It's a pretty quick, painless process.

[darksong]

Humans, while we're "animals" aren't the same as pigs. I think most people (you included) know how I feel about these things, but honestly, if it's my life or a loved one's life vs. a pig's life, it's obvious what I'm going to choose.

[cramer]

yeah. humans just don't make good bacon -- not enough fat, or something. *grin*