In regards to eating meat

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I raise both cattle and chickens, and my honest belief is that they are not individuated except in rare cases where they have a lot of interaction with a human.

Why? Because they aren't suffering. Compassion is something we extend to an entity who is suffering.

Really? You don't think that carrots suffer when we pull them out of the ground and they slowly die in our refrigerators until we eat them? I do.

Now, for those people - the ones who consider their dogs to be part of their family - Let's say they love plants too. I challenge anyone to find me a person (other than Monkey) who would save the plant before saving the dog.

I have known people who have plants that have been handed down in their families for generations. I can imagine them running to save their plant before their dog.