• MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    The dog only existed to serve her

    Uh.. What do you think animals bred for slaughter are?

    • JayTwo [any]
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      5 months ago

      That's a different definition of "serve".
      Pigs aren't trained to do tasks then slaughtered if they fail.
      They're bred specifically for slaughter and then killed when they reach prime weight.

      A "life on the farm" story doesn't convey an implied threat of if you cause me problems you may get shot in the head like this does.

      • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        Yes, instead they're bred explicitly to kill, they don't even have the chance to earn the right to live a full life serving humans

        • JayTwo [any]
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          5 months ago

          Sure but that's a separate convo.
          I just answered the question of why the governor of South Dakota boasting about shooting her (and her daughter's) dog dead because it wasn't progressing along with training in a way she approved of is more horrifying to me than the existence of the slaughter industry.

          • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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            5 months ago

            It's fair to say this person is much more deranged than the average meat defender, but the core issue of animal slaughter remains in this instance and in meat consumption. An animal's life was cut short because a human decided they wanted to do that

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        A "life on the farm" story doesn't convey an implied threat

        it would if the children in the metaphor see the family livestock being treated by their parents the way industrial dairy and beef cattle are typically abused instead of some homestead fantasy