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Originally Posted by Ea
Bolding mine.
Sometimes I get a little tired of that term; 'treated humanely'. What does it mean? Treated like a human? Is that really better? What if we treated a cow, 'cowly', a dog, 'dogly', and a swine 'swinely' - and who should decide what was what?
In any case, I would probably be most concerned about the quality of the food that the animal provide me. I see humans as another animal among others and I don't think humans necessarily have greater (or lesser for that matter) 'moral responsibility' towards other species just because we are able to think abstractly.
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I think maybe Ea's got a point there in the sense that if you have bred an animal solely to slaughter it then maybe whether you give it a bit of grass to run about on or keep it in a shed is morally marginal compared with the broader issue of breeding something just to kill it.