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Global network of sadistic monkey torture exposed by BBC (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by somefool@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

but it's not the same thing as deliberately harming animals for your own amusement.

But it kinda is tho isn't it?

Paying someone to kill animals because you like the taste of their corpses is basically harming animals for your own amusement.

Yes it's not just taste, also "food" but food can also just be plants so that leaves just taste aka. pleasure aka. amusement.

[–] NubTubz@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

You're conflating the "amusement" of eating food with the amusement of killing the animals to obtain that food. They are not the same. As stated in my previous post, there is a big disconnect in most people's minds between the food they eat and the animals they come from.

But more to the point I'm trying to make, animals dying in order to feed people is different from animals being recorded while they are slowly and deliberately tortured to death as a form of entertainment. I don't know how to explain that one is worse than the other. I'm not disagreeing with you that plant based alternatives are preferable to meat in order to avoid the suffering of animals, but I'm also not understanding why you feel the need to bring that up in the comments of this article. The issue described in the article is fundamentally different from that of the meat industry.