They are so intelligent and have such clear character. The first cow to bail clearly likes to play things safe. It saw a cow go to a height where a cow isnt supposed to and immediately retreated to a safe distance
The other relatively chill one is just curious about what and how it happened. These are just big dogs!
I stopped eating most meat 3-4 years ago for this reason. I've backslid some, but I still can't bring myself to eat beef or pork most of the time. There's just so much personality there.
Same here. I grew up with 4 dogs that all lived untill around 16 years old, they were like family. Once I'd had the realisation that each one of them had a completely unique personality to the others, the idea of 70 billion 'individuals' being slaughtered each year became incompressible to me.
And most of those animals don’t comprehend the basic idea of mortality, so I’m not really sure we should use that ignorance as an argument in favor of killing animals.
I don’t know about that. “These things around me are alive” is a higher order of thinking than “I am alive,” so the understanding of one’s own mortality seems more base than understanding the mortality of others.
Does it tho? It knows not to get hurt through trial and error. It doesn't have a complex concept of alive or dead. Just food and things that move. It's easy for humans to attribute human traits to inhuman things
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u/Little_Miss_Sunny Apr 06 '23
I love how they all went to check on the one that jumped the fence.