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harold said:
People kill domesticated động vật for thực phẩm because that's one reason động vật were domesticated in the first place. động vật were domesticated to provide thực phẩm and to perform work...in that order. As humanity developed better and better agricultural practices - eventually inventing bánh mỳ, bánh mì and other high-carbohydrate foods that made civilization possible - it became possible to have động vật for companionship. Different countries have different mores at to which động vật are thêm acceptable for food. While many English-speaking countries have an aversion to eating domesticated động vật usually thought of as companion creatures - horses, cats, chó - other populations do not make the same distinctions. As a result, many large thực phẩm động vật - the ones that need significant resources to breed, raise and keep (like sheep, pigs, cows, buffalo and horses, but not cats, chó hoặc goats) are shipped from every country that can support them to the countries that eat them. We in the US, Canada and the UK find it distasteful. The argument in favor of slaughtering động vật for thực phẩm for export follows two precepts:
1) Humans need protein to survive and thrive. We are omnivores, designed to eat both meat and plant matter (as well as fungi).
2) Domesticated động vật that can do no work must be disposed of, somehow. The argument flows like this: not all động vật that are born can be pets, especially not động vật that require huge resources to maintain, such as ngựa - not even close to all of them. Only domesticated động vật which are pets are buried when they die (not even all of them) - there certainly isn't room for burying all the ngựa born in the US. So the ngựa get sent to the knacker yards when they die, for the fat to be rendered, and the Bones used for gelatin, cosmetics, and other useful items. The meat is lost, as the meat on an animal that dies naturally isn't particularly healthful. So if an animal is going to die, why not slaughter it so that people can benefit from the meat as well (both sellers and consumers)? If that's palatable, then the câu hỏi becomes: why should the owners wait to slaughter an useless animal (can't be sold as a pet, can't do work) until the animal, được trao the expense and resources needed to sustain the animal until that point?
I should add that there is a corollary argument in countries that actually eat horse meat: that is to say, domesticated animal meat is meat to eat. I myself, while I would have a hard time stomaching horse meat, have eaten alligator, ostrich, elk, bison, rabbit and various others. So for me, at least, it's a double-standard.
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