usual suspect wrote:


Glorfindel:

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>>>> No animal should be bred so that he is *incapable*
>>>> of carrying out normal biological functions for his species,
>>>> such as reproduction.

>>> Why not?

>> If it isn't obvious to you, I am sorry for you.

> You can't answer the question.

I can answer the question, but your basic moral priorities are
so different from those of normal people that the answer
probably won't make sense to you.

Animals are not ours. First, they are created by God ( or Nature)
to be what they are and to fill a particular ecological niche.
We cannot create them; we can only warp them out of their natural
state in ways which -- in the case of these turkeys at least --
frustrate every ability required for them to survive as they
were intended to do. We have taken God's creatures and mutilated
and deformed them.

Animals are not ours. As individual beings under God, just like
humans, they belong to themselves. Their lives and their selves
are their own. They have inherent value in themselves; they have
consciousness and awareness, the ability to feel and suffer and
enjoy their little lives. They are individuals, as we are, and
we have a moral obligation to respect that basic individuality by
treating them as beings with basic moral status, not just as things.
We do not have a right, as God's stewards only, to do anything we
want to others. We do not have a right, as moral beings, to create
suffering and deformity for our trivial convenience.

But, as I said, this will probably make no sense to you. For which,
I pity you.

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