You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it

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You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it
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Because humans are omnivores, "the flesh of others" is quite literally food for us. Wood, the flesh of trees, is food for fungus. Everything eats something, and you're on one hell of a superiority binge if you think animals are any more deserving of mercy than plants. Plants can perceive (and communicate!) when they experience damage (link). What's your floor for intelligence before being allowed to eat something?

It's quite amazing that you are one of the only people in the thread to acknowledge this. We are part of nature.

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Humans are edible, do you look at other humans and think food?

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