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What would you rather butcher? A puppy, or a chicken?
It still boils down to how one was raised.
Murder is the
crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought.
If we apply the same to animals, laws vary among cultures on what animals are acceptable for eating.
In my own area, I eat meat and have no problem with the humane slaughter of standard Midwest U.S. farm animals. I have had pet pigs and they have ended up on the breakfast table.
Except for self defense, I do have a problem with killing carnivores and birds that we don't eat. It has nothing to do with their intellect. People tend to kill off the competition. I don't think killing just for the sake of killing is good in any sense.
Cannibalism hasn't always been illegal. Again it depends on the culture.
Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans throughout the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures; and, in a few cases in insular Melanesia, indigenous flesh-markets existed.[11] Fiji was once known as the 'Cannibal Isles'.[12] Neanderthals are believed to have practiced cannibalism,[13][14] and they may have been eaten by modern humans.[15]
It comes down to what is legal for the culture.
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