The reason many people say it’s OK to be complicit in factory farming animals, but not humans, is because humans are smarter: “they’re just animals”. Pointing out that factory farmed animals are smarter than severely mentally-disabled humans, shows it’s clearly not about intelligence. Speciesism is therefor similar to racism and sexism.
What’s important is whether they can feel pain or not, not intelligence.
Pointing out the lie isn’t gross. What is gross is torturing 3-6 trillion fish to death every year, and enslaving 1-3 trillion animals in torturous conditions every year.
comparing the mentally disabled to animals is gross
The reason many people say it’s OK to be complicit in factory farming animals, but not humans, is because humans are smarter: “they’re just animals”. Pointing out that factory farmed animals are smarter than severely mentally-disabled humans, shows it’s clearly not about intelligence. Speciesism is therefor similar to racism and sexism.
What’s important is whether they can feel pain or not, not intelligence.
Pointing out the lie isn’t gross. What is gross is torturing 3-6 trillion fish to death every year, and enslaving 1-3 trillion animals in torturous conditions every year.
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