it just seems like an awfully strange set of priorities, even in the hypothetical world where these dogs are bred for this, are rented around for a few years, and are killed by relatively painless means (the particular operation you linked to appears to currently be doing much better than this, but details are scarce), they're still enjoying better lives than the vast majority of animals who live out their lives under the power and in the care of humans. i know you pick the political fights you can win, but it seems like this is singling out one class of businesses in drastic disproportion to the amount of evil they perpetrate, even by the moral standards that make this exercise seem like a good idea.
i'm sorry, pet people are always telling me i can't buy a nice cat-fur coat, and can't eat horses, and this and that and the other damn thing, and it smacks of the worst kind of speciesism. the callous speciesism that vegans complain about is at least coherent (humans tend to have salient cognitive capacities that dogs and pigs and monkeys generally lack), but the system that favors dogs and cats and horses over foxes and minks and pigs is jut offensively arbitrary - more to the point, it's imposing your own personal arbitrary preferences about which animals deserve better on everybody, like a coalition of Hindus showing up and taking away our burgers, because that happens to be what offend their arbitrary sensibilities.
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Date: 2008-03-02 08:39 pm (UTC)i'm sorry, pet people are always telling me i can't buy a nice cat-fur coat, and can't eat horses, and this and that and the other damn thing, and it smacks of the worst kind of speciesism. the callous speciesism that vegans complain about is at least coherent (humans tend to have salient cognitive capacities that dogs and pigs and monkeys generally lack), but the system that favors dogs and cats and horses over foxes and minks and pigs is jut offensively arbitrary - more to the point, it's imposing your own personal arbitrary preferences about which animals deserve better on everybody, like a coalition of Hindus showing up and taking away our burgers, because that happens to be what offend their arbitrary sensibilities.