I'm not a big meat eater, but one of these days I do hope to partake of one of your piggies.
We were talking about this sort of thing on a tiny scale the other day. We feed goldfish to our turtles; they are predators and they just can't get everything they need from pelleted food. And I really like the goldfish, which are pretty, smart, curious fish capable of recognizing individuals and bonding with them. Because I'm a wimp, we set up a tank today and pulled out some of our favorites to keep as pets. But the majority of them are food. Until they get eaten, they're ecstatic: coming from the horrible overfilled feeder tank at the pet store where they are starving and attacking each other, they have a 110-gallon pond with ultraviolet radiation and lots of places to explore and plenty of food (and the turtles to tease...until you doesn't jump fast enough. It's all fun and games 'till someone loses a tail.)
Some animals are at the lower end of the food chain, but that's no reason at all, ever, to mistreat them, up until the moment they become food.
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We were talking about this sort of thing on a tiny scale the other day. We feed goldfish to our turtles; they are predators and they just can't get everything they need from pelleted food. And I really like the goldfish, which are pretty, smart, curious fish capable of recognizing individuals and bonding with them. Because I'm a wimp, we set up a tank today and pulled out some of our favorites to keep as pets. But the majority of them are food. Until they get eaten, they're ecstatic: coming from the horrible overfilled feeder tank at the pet store where they are starving and attacking each other, they have a 110-gallon pond with ultraviolet radiation and lots of places to explore and plenty of food (and the turtles to tease...until you doesn't jump fast enough. It's all fun and games 'till someone loses a tail.)
Some animals are at the lower end of the food chain, but that's no reason at all, ever, to mistreat them, up until the moment they become food.