Random Thought: It’s not OK to eat sentient creatures
Self awareness or sentience is a tricky thing to measure. I read an interesting article on EcoWorldly last night about elephants passing a self-awareness test. It got me thinking and this morning I woke up with a strong sense that is not OK to be eating creatures that are self-aware. This is not a new idea, actually if you read the wikipedia article on sentience you’ll find that animal rights activists have been pointing this out for a long time.
Now I would not eat an elephant or gorilla but what about cows, pigs, and chickens? There are plenty of other reasons to eat vegitarian and vegan but this particular aspect of the whole matter of eating meat has got me thinking. I’m also going to try the test on my dogs. Don’t worry… I won’t be eating my dogs either… but I wonder if they would pass the self awareness test?
Would You Eat This Meat?
I had to run to the grocery store tonight to get a few items and saw this while waiting at the check stand. Would you eat this meat? I was extremely surprised to see that someone was actually trying to market beef jerky under the brand name “Crazy Cow.” I mean come on… doesn’t this branding just scream, “Mad Cow Diseased Beef Jerky!” I’m sure it’s not diseased and that they probably meant it to be a play on words and sickly funny… but if you want to sell something you might try NOT to advertising it could kill you. Call it “Wild Cow” or something.
