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      Man, I saw the original over on the vegan community and felt bad for a second and then realized that pigs aren’t humans and can’t fucking talk.

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          Giving an animal the ability to talk, feel, and act like a human does not give me empathetic feelings towards it, no.
          I also don’t eat suckling pig, so there’s that too.

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              What the hell does any of that matter? You trying to hit me with a gotcha when I say I give a shit about cats and dogs?

              I am not now, and never will be a vegan.

              Go convince someone who’s on the fence about it. I ain’t your guy.

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                What the hell does any of that matter?

                Studies have shown that pigs are more intelligent than dogs. By your logic, eating pigs is more cruel than eating dogs.

                I am not now, and never will be a vegan.

                Alright, I never asked you to become vegan. I just pointed out your code of ethics, when it comes to what animals do and don’t deserve empathy, is cruel and irrational. What you do with that information is up to you.

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                  Studies have shown that pigs are more intelligent than dogs. By your logic, eating pigs is more cruel than eating dogs.

                  And there it is. The gotcha.

                  I just pointed out your code of ethics

                  I’ll make sure not to eat peppa pig if I ever run across her.

                  My whole point in the first damn place was that making a comic with humanized pigs doesn’t make me feel anymore empathy than I already do. It doesn’t change my stance. It’s all propaganda.

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                    I love how you say “the gotcha” as it invalidated the argument. There is a paradox in your ethics, pointing out the way ppl tell you about it won’t change anything about the fact being presented here.

                    It feels like to me that you are more concerned about winning an argument than adressing what is being talked about here.

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                    So you are aware of the cruelty but proudly proclaim that you’ll always willingly participate, no matter what?

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                    They actually don’t. I’ve raised pigs, and they keep themselves clean- they pick one corner of the pen to shit in and a different corner to sleep and eat in, given the opportunity. The idea that they shit where they eat is probably (dunno for sure) because they clean themselves by taking dust baths, and when it rains, the wallow turns into mud. They roll in the mud to stay cool when it’s hot sometimes, but it isn’t shit.

                    We had a pig when I was a kid who could work the lock on her pen and escape into the fields next door to eat grass. They’re pretty smart.

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        I dont get the comic either but if anything I think we can agree the way mother pigs are restrained in farrowing cages for so long doesnt seem right.

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        Well, put it this way, given the chance pig would happily eat you without a speck of regret.