Food consumption: we eat chickens, steer, fish, etc. but we do not eat dogs, cats, horses, etc. is this because we have a "relationship" with the animals that is nonexistent with the chickens and fish?
Experimentation: we perform experiments on rats/mice, fruit flies, and bacteria, but we do not on dogs, cats, horses, etc. why is this?
for some animals i understand that their numbers are limited and should be treated as such (to prevent extinction) however, why do we value some animals' lives more than others? and by what standard do we base this off of?
is it abundance of that species or a lack of a relationship with that species? or something totally different? why do we as humans do this?
2006-11-10
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