Dogs can't be eaten, they are smart, tame, loyal, man's best friend
So we eat pigs and cows, they only live in pens, not so smart and have no communication with us. But if you think about it carefully, it's like, if a person is not of the same race as us, not a friend, and has a low IQ, who can only be raised by people and does not actively contribute to society, he deserves to be killed.
When I think about it this way, I feel that it is not right. Therefore, cows and sheep are not to be eaten, and animals are not to be eaten. Everyone has come to be vegetarians. If the current trends and logic continue, history will prove that vegetarians are the biggest group of villains. Why animals are life in their eyes and need protection, while plants and fungi are not life, or inferior, and they deserve to be concentrated on eating. Isn't this yet another fascist speciesism?
So, in the end, we don't eat at all. We don't eat animals, plants, fungi, and all living things. We eat proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, etc. that are directly chemically synthesized in the chemical industry. So why do we advocate "Organic" today and promote green food and organic fertilizer? Isn't the stuff produced in chemical plants the biggest culprit of our food problems today?
After going around like this, according to the ethics and logic of some Emotional animal protectionists, what will human beings eat in the end? ?
I actually agree with the focus of this film: stop the killing of wild dolphins. But I don't think some of the logic of this very emotional documentary can really make sense. Just like Treadwell in Grizzly Man, many Americans project their feelings for people onto some animals they like, and sometimes even wishful thinking to extend the ethics between people to them and these animals. into the relationship. But this does not necessarily conform to the laws of nature, the ethics of nature. Treadwell's death is a tragedy under this dislocation.
I didn't write this for the sake of being a minority and making minority speeches. I actually liked this movie a lot and I wouldn't hesitate to give it 5 stars. It's just that I think there are many other angles to understand this film (such as the understanding of Japanese nationality, of course, this is another big topic).
As far as animal protection is concerned, I personally think that there is another set of practices and logic:
first, stop or minimize the killing of wild animals, whether it is dolphins, Tibetan antelopes, or "deep-sea cod". it is good. The same logic, stop the destruction of the original ecological areas that basically maintain their original appearance, protect more, develop less, and send less recommendations to travel magazines and travel forums.
Secondly, for the animals raised, they still have to eat, but try to improve the environment during the raising process and reduce the pain in the process of death. Therefore, if the Japanese have to eat dolphins, but the dolphins are domesticated and raised by the Japanese, the dolphins are not enriched with toxic substances such as mercury, and do not hunt dolphins in such a slaughtering way, it is actually very difficult to be caught. point.
Finally, and most importantly, in terms of society as a whole, controlling or even reducing the population, 6 billion people, and the resources that need to be consumed, has pushed the entire ecosystem of the earth to the point of collapse. Personally, reduce consumption, reduce the appropriation and waste of resources, and stop being dragged away by the consumerism lured by the propaganda of the capital economy.
That is to say, we are not doing this to establish ethics and feelings similar to those between humans and dolphins or other animals, but for the ecology of the entire earth, so that it can return to a stable and relatively natural environment as much as possible. in status. Perhaps only in this way can humans hope to gradually retreat into a stable and less deformed ecosystem, acting as a fixed link in the biological chain.
Just, I hope everything is not too late to the point of despair.
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