torture means that pain/distressed are caused intentionally. like beating someone so they give up information. that’s not the case in farming. sometimes, animals are caused pain or distress, but the point of the activity is not to cause it. if a farmer could raise their livestock and never cause them any pain or distress for the same cost, i’m sure they would. the pain is incidental, not intentional. it’s not torture. qed.
in most circumstances, probably.
if you can point me to an animal behavioral-cognition study that shows any non-human animal understands personal mortality, i’d love to read it. all the studies i have found that get close to talking about it go out of their way to point out they don’t have evidence of it.
this isn’t what they said
you can’t kill ethically a fish, cow, pig, dog, etc.
i think it’s amoral
being farmed isn’t torture.
there is no evidence non-human animals understand personal mortality. we can’t say they want to live, since there’s no evidence they understand that they themselves are living or could die.
everyone can see the whole thread. I don’t know who you think you’re fooling.
everyone can see how you othered foreigners of russian descent
https://mastodon.social/@Cryophilia@lemmy.world/112047426325648689
everyone can see who was throwing around insults and xenophobia
I can see the whole exchange from my mastodon accounts
I don’t see any insults but yours there.
torture is intentional. the pain and distress caused by farming is only incidental.