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I can butcher it if she wants help. It shouldn't be too different from pigs.
(It's really precious though. Think on how many kilos of meat it has!)
Pigs are as smart as dogs. It's weird that harming onenis animal abuse and the other is breakfast. Especially when some cultures eat dogs as well.
Dunno about other people, but in my case:
One could make the same points about any animal, really.
Like, the possibility of eating cats, or keeping a pet cow? Yes, and it would be consistent with the above.
Humans are animals as well. Just keep them as lifestock (e.g. on a cotton field or labor camp as we have done in the past), and killing them should be completely fine according to your logic. Who cares about the victims if we just declare them lifestock. Great ethics!
No shit Sherlock.
Following the reasoning that I've posted in another comment, another species keeping us as livestock wouldn't be doing something immoral in my book; they're defending their own interests, in detriment to ours. I don't expect for example a jaguar to put my self-preservation above its cub's desire for food.
And similarly it wouldn't be immoral if we fought against it.
Contrariwise to vegans I'm not putting humans on some holier-than-thou ground with intrinsically better moral grounds than the other species; it boils down to defence of one's own interests. Take a clue from the fact that my avatar is a smoking chimp dammit.
Appeal to emotion and other forms of stupidity/fallacy/irrationality don't work well against me. Try something else.
Although I'm suspecting that you guys' approach is something else: ad nauseam / sealeoning, is it?