• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    24 hours ago

    why are some animals allowed to have rights, while others allowed to be butchered and eaten?

    The line is generally a combination of social, practical, and culinary. That is, if it’s not a companion animal, it’s not endangered, it is customarily raised as livestock and it is tasty those are all evidence it probably goes in the latter category. So chicken = food, whooping crane = not food because endangered, german shepherd = not food because companion, blue ringed octopus = not food because taste bad.

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      8 hours ago

      So, who’s asked whether it is “tasty” or not?
      What if someone fed a really bad diet to chicken and as a result the produce was not tasty to anyone that bought it? Can the seller now get jailed for selling non-tasty chicken (or for having killed those chicken prior to selling them)? :P

      Also, I never really found chicken tasty, out of the few times I tried. Once, it was, due to the marination, but then it’s the marination ingredients that are really tasty. So I guess you are better off not referring to me when deciding what is legal :P