[ExI] The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 03/05/2023 12:41, Stuart LaForge wrote:
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> I had not considered that. Although it is entirely possible to kill 
> ones meat with little to no pain, I can see how they could be related. 
> What do these people have against farm animals? Our livestock are, 
> aside from us, ants, termites, and antarctic krill, the most 
> evolutionarily successful animals in the world. We are doing their 
> bloodlines a solid favor by eating them. Do they think that feral 
> cattle and chickens would just roam our cities? Eliminating meat would 
> likely cause the extinction of several domestic farm animals in the 
> long run.
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> Stuart LaForge
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> Quoting Tara Maya via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:
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>> The road to hell...
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>> It sounds like another way to starve humans, part of the war on meat. 


Well, in our local park there are herds of wild venison, but on the 
whole I agree. I've pointed that out many times to vegetarians and 
extreme vegetarians in the past, but they seem to have a blind spot. I 
suppose it's an interesting ethical question. Is it better to have a 
large population of tasty food animals, many of which will lead good and 
happy lives up to the point when they are suddenly killed (I'm 
definitely opposed to battery farming and similar practices, which lead 
to poor-qualilty food anyway), or to have a zero population of tasty 
food animals because they're all extinct?

Some people will say that if they're extinct we can't exploit them, so 
that would be a good thing. I say that if they're extinct we can't eat 
them, so that would be a bad thing.

Ben
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