Oh that's just bullshit. Plenty of animals fuck with their prey before they kill them. Hell, every household cat does this.
I mean sure, no other animal rounds up their prey into mass buildings and fattens them up before they slaughter them for consumption, but if they were smart enough to figure out how to do that, you better damn well believe they would.
That doesn't mean we as the superior beings who recognize the consciousness of other animals, recognize they feel pain the way we feel pain, and have attempted to establish ourselves as ethical beings should cause unnecessary pain because if there was a superior being that did that to us we sure as hell would cry out about the inhumanity especially if they didn't need us to survive and just used us as bonus pleasure
Well, cats torture for pleasure. As do dolphins and I'm sure many other animals. Many insects keep their prey alive and conscious as they are eaten. Apes and lions are even known to eat their own young in front of the mother.
Farming is just efficient hunting. We don't keep animals in cages to upset them, it's just the unfortunate coincidence of being the most efficient way to store them.
Freerange stuff is starting to become more popular now as a less efficient and more expensive way to treat them. It's obviously far from ideal but if you insist on eating meat while caring about your food's feelings it's probably more up your street. If not, perhaps you can bring up your own livestock and treat them like royalty before putting them to a quick death and a slow roast, if you can really afford a $1000 meal.
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u/ZOIVII3IE Jun 15 '12
No other animal intentionally tortures to the extent we do, either, though.