What HOGWASH!!!
(for all you bacon lovers, pun intended)

Just as we innately already know that it is wrong — indeed, that is abjectly cruel & immoral — to imprison &/or torture &/or murder chimpanzees or dolphins or elephants or dogs or cats because we know that they suffer immensely when we do so, so too is it equally reprehensible to confine &/or mutilate &/or murder cows or pigs or fish or chickens or turkeys — because, as science is now conclusively showing, THEY SUFFER JUST AS MUCH!

In essence, treat these animals as mere commodities instead of the viable, caring, conscious beings they are if you wish … Just know as you do so that you have no viable excuse for that hard & heartless choice.

Peace to ALL … S

“An international group of neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists, and computational neuroscientists has signed ‘The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness’ — in which the prominent cognitive scientists proclaimed their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus … ‘The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states, they write, ‘Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors.’ Consequently, say the signatories, the scientific evidence is increasingly indicating that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.” ~ Katherine Harmon