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Originally Posted by skier
willravel, Just to make things clear, sheep are basically the dumbest livestock that we breed for meat. They are several orders of intelligence lower than dolphins, or horses, or even cows. it kind of seemed to me that you were implying we shouldn't eat lamb because they are intelligent. (although grading animals by intelligence towards their eatability seems a little asinine to me)
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I was equating the importance of their intelect with the importance of the show flipper. Yeah, sheep are really really dumb. Pigs are a little dumber than dogs, though. Still, it's all food. That's the bottom line. Yeah, it can be greusome work, but it's all for the sake of continuing to live. We eat to live, just as dolphins eat fish to live and those fish eat kelp.