How they’re “put down” (that’s a very kind euphemism) is only part of the problem. It’s how they’re forced to live
That’s their entire life.
Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 months agoSadly, I am. There are laws about how the animals can be put down and though they are not what I would want them to be, they do at least somewhat limit the cruelty inherent in the process.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
So theyre forced to live just like the people Noem is kidnapping via ICE?
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right, so it doesn’t matter what Noem did, because there is already so much cruelty out there? Why are people defending her cruelty by pointing out the existence of institutional cruelty? They are both bad. One does not refute the other.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
This is the internet. Deflection from the point being made, in an effort to one-up or simply argue with a post.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More specifically this is Lemmy. If we don’t have morons arguing with the dumbest logic possible, something is wrong.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
i feel like you’re a tad misinformed. They are super cruel to the animals. They split families up, they kill animals when they’re still children. They castrate pigs without anaesthetic. They cut off the beaks of chickens so they don’t peck each other. How is that not cruel beyond cruel?
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So because there are institutional scale cruelties like this, then it doesn’t matter that a person in a position high in the American government is bragging about her personal cruelty to animals? I am simply pointing out her failings in this regard and you are telling me what? It doesn’t matter what she did because there’s already a lot of cruelty out there?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I didn’t say it doesn’t matter. I was merely pointing out that cunts will be like “THAT POOR DOG” then go home and eat a cow steak who was also tortured.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Personally I share your take, but you’re not helping the cause by insulting people.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s kind of the point of the article I linked to. Yeah, everyone is upset about Cricket, but the goat matters too.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Between what the law says and what actually happens, there is a yawning gulf. It’s the same in basically all jurisdictions where there are animal-welfare laws. The meat industry is powerful and consumers are unrelenting in their clamor for cheap meat. With such incentives, the weakest link is always going to be animals, which by definition have no voice.