Oh yeah , my dad a pretty good experience , but he also had made an okay friend who helped push my dad along with getting appointments and treatments whenever . The jury is still out on whenever he ' s getting his surgeries though . <| sep |> Did that force a wipe ? <| sep |> my god the quality is so far down the shitter not even god himself can save it <| sep |> Member when R . Kelley got redzone touches last week ? I member . <| sep |> I believe it comes down to a lack of proven sentience in the animals . For example it is considered that humans are the only creatures who can currently be proven to have the ability to perceive their own existence and ask why ? Some other animals show traits that make us feel they are that much closer to us in that regard such as the great apes , dolphins and other animals that you most likely won ' t find at your deli counter . The further we as humans can put ourselves outside of the mind of how we think an animal would feel if they can feel at all makes it that much easier for us to kill them as food . One of the examples given in the video is if aliens came down and started farming us . If this was the case we as humans would not simply allow ourselves to be corralled and farmed unless we were forced to by the aliens superiority we would fight or try to communicate and reason with the aliens . Pigs on the other hand don ' t ask where their buddies are going when they farmer heads off to slaughter they simply line up for the next tray of food . To follow that example it is said that our intelligence is not reason enough to eat the pig because some of us have less than the mental capacity of a pig . But not all of us do and this is the key point the majority of us are far and above smarter than pigs but lets say even a few pigs could match our human brains tit for tat and stand up and say wait stop killing us we are not just dumb animals we would most likely stop farming them . But they can ' t stand up and say that because pigs while very intelligent creatures are not concerned with the future of pig kind . They are only concerned with their immediate future and possibly that of their offspring . In conclusion I would say I have to disagree with the original posts claim that we should not eat pigs because some of them are smarter in some way than our mentally handicapped brethren . I do not agree with the way animals are treated in large farming and butchering operations and think that animals should be treated with higher standards even if they are destined for our consumption . But bacon is delicious and until a pig and a spider get together in reality to convince me of a higher intelligence . I am going to enjoy some pig .