MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection

Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by null_shift on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:57PM (#27583581)

Systematic animal torture sounds dystopic.

Why not attack that from all angles? Convince people to eat less meat and more vegetables…sure. But you will still have holdouts saying that they prefer the taste of meat. Hence plant based meat alternatives and lab grown meat.

There can be multiple solutions to a given problem.

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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by cheese_goddess on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:25AM (#27592859)

> Systematic animal torture sounds dystopic.

I agree on principle but I'm not sure what you mean by "systematic animal torture". For example, for me industrial farming is just that, but small-scale farming (where herds are no larger than a few dozen animals, for cows, more for goats and sheep) are not.

So I think we'll disagree on that. Basically, I think some people find eating animals dystopic regardless of how it's done, while I don't.

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Re:MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection by null_shift on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:13PM (#27633589)

sorry i should have been more clear, my comment was referring to factory farming specifically. i agree that small scale farming can be done in a more humane, ethical way. unfortunately, it does not scale to meet global food demand.

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