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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by tluyben2 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:28AM (#11494311)
There is a cut off point as most people here would not eat humans (come on, how are human babies intelligent?) dolpins or dogs. Eating pigs just makes people hypocrites; people just ignore it and stuff it away as you need bacon and it is too annoying to face all this pesky stuff.

And 'would not want to live in a world without'? That is a strange remark on many levels; if pigs are deamed sentient tomorrow and hence offlimits like humans you go for suicide or become a criminal?

Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by asciimo on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:51AM (#11494559)
Pigs and almost every other animal humans eat are already deemed sentient. Bacon tho.
Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by tluyben2 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @07:44PM (#11501113)
Are they? That makes people even weirder for doing what they do. Like said I am not against eating meat; if I known the animal was not tortured then I would eat it, completely by the way (brain and organs included). But buying some bacon in plastic from a factory where torture is the norm makes you rather a sick puppy if you know these animals are sentient. But I know people just don't want to think about it. Especially here it is strange: the HN reader is rich so can actually go to a farm and pay something more for well treated eggs and bacon. And yet...