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So is eating humans also OK, since humans have been known to engage in cannibalism?
In any case, you are missing the point that jdizzler brought up. Your arbitrary judgement of a species to be "dishonorable" doesn't justify breeding and raising tens of millions of them in horrible conditions.
Only for non-hamans. This seems to track, while I would defend myself from a wolf, bear, lion, etc., I would hardly begrudge them wanting to eat me.
Dishonorable animals are permissible for human consumption. If humans eat humans, then humans are dishonorable. Therefore, humans are permissible for human consumption.
A wolf doesn't care about 2rafa's notion of honorable species and will happily eat just about anything.
Except eating your own kind brings dishonor, so no, that does not make it ok for human consumption.
The fact that other animals don't care for our notions of honor is irrelevant, the whole point of this framework is to judge them regardless. It works the same way for humans, murderes, rapists, traitors, etc., also don't care for our notions of honor.
But we've already established that humans eat humans. So the dishonor is already here.
Why? What percentage of humans are cannibals today?
What percentage of pigs are cannibals today?
An extremely high one- do you know anything about pigs? A friend of mine raises them at home and feeds the heads to his other pigs when he slaughters them. Feral hogs happily eat dead piglets.
They're nasty, vicious animals.
Your anecdote is not typical - most pigs are raised in factory farms where they, as far as I know, eat mostly corn and soy.
Touché, but if the pigs are cannibals because people are feeding them pigs, I don't know if this reflects well on human honor either.
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