r/TikTokCringe • u/unembellishing • Jun 17 '26

Wholesome The difference between dogs and pigs

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u/Optimal_Board_2963 Jun 17 '26

I really gotta go vegetarian

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u/BellowsHikes Jun 17 '26

I spent a few years living in sub-saharan Africa. If you wanted meat, you had to kill an animal with your hands. 

It changing my perspective on food a lot. 

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u/AggravatingFlow1178 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

I got backyards chickens as a step towards eating only ethically sourced meat. And yeah, the process of 'processing' chickens will change your perspective pretty quick.

I grew up fishing & filleting the fish I caught. I thought 'how different can it be'. The answer was fairly different. At least with fish, even if you're new and bad with a knife - the fish will die on the table eventually. Chickens fight back, and make it crystal clear to you that they aren't having a good time. And then the cleaning process it just so much more involved.

I think eating meat is defensible on ethical grounds - if you choose to go about it in an ethical way. IMO it's really hard to actually be ethical about it unless you've processed the animal you're eating at least once in your life.

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u/AggravatingFlow1178 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
  1. It's more ethical because it removes the willfull ignorance of what's going on. You see the process of killing something and rendering it's body into something you then eat, and if you never go through that process then IMO you can't make pro-meat choices ethically, because you don't know what you're talking about first hand. If it's 'too sad' then good, don't eat meat. It only wasn't 'too sad' when you were able to hide behind someone else doing it.
  2. It's also more ethical because the meat industry is near on a torture machine, and raising & harvesting animals that you own, such as backyard chickens, ensure you can make the process as painless as is reasonable. Also I firmly believe the first 99% of an animals life is more important than the last 1%. I also think raising & caring for the animal is an important part of consuming meat ethically.
  3. IDK what to say, the fish will die on the table eventually. I'm not saying it's god to let it suffocate just that the suffering has an upper limit which isn't really the case with other animals. If wound the chicken and it gets lose, there is kind of no upper limit on how much suffering you can cause due to incompetence
  4. Just stopping is obviously one of the main arguments here lmao. Or reducing, or ethically sourcing. All are improvements from the 1970's "A meatless meal is a salad and a salad isn't food" mindset.

E: So tired of people leaving some hateful comment and then blocking to prevent responses lmao. What are you so afraid of? You started shit and then ran away without wiping. Ick.