Easily demonstrated by many measures: Basics: they poop and don’t need anyone to clean them. They don’t scream when a predator is around because they understand what can happen. They run from predators.

Simple: they can walk and run and find food for themselves at some point to become self sufficient.

Complex: they know who momma is and live in social groups for the most part. They communicate with each other.

Human babies never do any of this, and that has all sorts of ramifications that can be interpreted as funny, sad, or even cruel.

  1. we never eat babies…ha ha ha! Just pulling your leg. We don’t.

  2. we never jail babies…ha ha ha! Oh shoot.

Don’t go imagining things, it could hurt. Just think about these things while eating your delicious hamburger. Your burger meat was once smarter than a baby and had as much feelings as a baby does and more including memories. And they were jailed their entire life and were brutally murdered and pushed thru a grinder until they were just pieces of meat.

      • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Animals are suffering because of factory farms and the industrialization of slaughter.

        We are nature and part of nature is eating animals. Go tell any other predator that they’re causing their food to suffer and see how that works out for you

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 days ago

          We are nature and part of nature is eating animals.

          Nature is also raping whenever you want. Poor argument.

          We have brains so we can be better than our base instincts. There’s zero reason we need to be killing things that can feel fear.

          If there’s no requirement to do something, then we’re doing it because we want to. So humans WANT to kill things that can feel fear? Because they’re yummy? Is that your stance?

        • WastedJobe@feddit.org
          12·
          2 months ago

          Have a real look at meat factories and tell me that is natural. I have nothing against eating wild animals like deer to counteract the lack of predators. But eating industry meat and claiming you are naturaly a predator is ridiculous, especially with the amount and quality of meat alternatives available.