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Originally Posted by Caff
I'm getting a bit lost here.
I never considered livestock as pets  Keep them and eat them or what they produce, otherwise - what's the point?
Hands up - I never ate my goldfish, hamster, guinea pig or dog. I really wouldn't want to have to stretch a hens neck sharp enough to kill it but have had to smack a fish out of it's misery on a stone wall after a feckless son landed it by mistake. Other people can do that far better than me  |
To you it may be livestock, but you dont get to see them everyday and stroke them, feed them etc.
they each have their own personality just like our other animals, so to kill a chicken that i have raised is like killing a member of the family.
I wont even kill a spider so i wouldnt neck a chicken, unless it was me or the chicken situation, even then i dont think i could do it.
obviously i dont get sentimental over some walls sausages, but i guess if i had my own pigs, i would think different about eating sausages or bacon.