• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      I kind of agree… I’ve been around these things, and they are incredibly stupid.

      I guess I’d draw the line around them purely because in western culture these are pets… But I think practically speaking these are a lot better than actual pigs, which are very intelligent.

      We have very strange eating habits when you really think about it.

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        It always amazed me that the anti-abortion people and the vegetarian people had basically no overlap. Supposedly “pro-life” with no exceptions… unless it’s this pig I want to eat. But that fetus with encephalopathy? That baby deserves every second of his tortuous, miserable life. All 38 hours of it.

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          Really tips you off that it’s actually about controlling women’s bodies for them and not really about “saving lives”

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          I have a friend who is both anti-abortion and vegetarian. She’s not the most logical person all the time, but she’s really consistent on this one. I vigorously disagree with her anti-abortion stance, but I admire her consistency, if that makes sense.

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        The lines are completely arbitrary. Cows and pigs are at least as affectionate, social, and intelligent as dogs, so why draw a line between them?

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        Which is funny, because it’s entirely normal in western culture to eat the very similar looking, long-eared version.