I know that people can do it, obviously. :-) I'm not sure it's "built in". For one personal, first-hand example: years ago friends of mine who lived in Vermont bought pigs with the intention of eating/selling them. A few months down the road, the pigs were pets because, they told me, they "had personalities" and were affectionate and intelligent. For them, rather than being able to dissociate pet versus meat, once one of the kind became a "companion animal", they couldn't continue to see the others as meat on the hoof, any more than they could eat their own.
Obviously it's a person by person thang. :-)
Frankly, though, I'd much rather eat meat that had been well treated and well loved and humanely/kindly/personally slaughtered by "loving" hands than what we get with factory farming conveyor belt methods.
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Date: 2007-02-12 03:25 am (UTC)Obviously it's a person by person thang. :-)
Frankly, though, I'd much rather eat meat that had been well treated and well loved and humanely/kindly/personally slaughtered by "loving" hands than what we get with factory farming conveyor belt methods.