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Originally Posted by Kazanne

Cows sheep pigs.etc are bred for food and should be killed humanely,lions are not food fodder and are not bred as such,farm animals are not shot and hunted for 40 hours ,then hung on someones wall or floor as a trophy,it's not rocket science to see the difference although if I had my way none would be killed,but I would be happy for a human cull,get rid of the vermin.

So if given the choice, would you rather be slaughtered and eaten or hunted and hung on someone's wall? My opinion on this dilemma being that "it doesn't really matter, either way I'd be dead, and dead things don't have preferences".

In other words, it's no worse for the lion to be hung on someone's wall than it is for the cow to be in someone's belly. So why do we make the distinction? We make it for us. Because on some level we consider a Lion to be "worth more" than a cow. When people say how awful it is that an animal species could become extinct, they don't mean that it's awful for that species or any member of that species (as for any individual animal, the extinction of their species is no more or less awful than their own death as an individual)... No... When people say that, they mean that it's awful for "us", because we will have fewer pretty / majestic / wondrous things to ogle in "our" world.