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Is it ethical to go swimming with dolphins?


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Is it ethical to go swimming with dolphins?  

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Aw, but it seems so fun.

 

Probably. Eating meat is also fairly fun for a lot of people. But "fun" isn't enough to justify rearing, confining, exploiting and killing tens of billions of nonhumans a year exclusively for our ends

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Aw, but it seems so fun.

 

Probably. Eating meat is also fairly fun for a lot of people. But "fun" isn't enough to justify rearing, confining, exploiting and killing tens of billions of nonhumans a year exclusively for our ends

 

Well, more like... one... but yeah.

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Well, more like... one... but yeah.

 

It is estimated that around the world, about 53 billion animals are killed for food purposes every year. But that's not including fish and other aquatic animals who, according to some researchers, also die in the tens of billions, bringing the whole figure close to 100 billion/year.

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Well, more like... one... but yeah.

 

It is estimated that around the world, about 53 billion animals are killed for food purposes every year. But that's not including fish and other aquatic animals who, according to some researchers, also die in the tens of billions, bringing the whole figure close to 100 billion/year.

 

But this is a separate issue.

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Is it ethical to play with cats ?

 

Not if, as in the case with dolphins, they're taken from the wild, stuffed in a confined space and being forced to play with people so that someone can profit financially from it. There's 3 things wrong with the dolphin scenario that don't translate as well to other animals in other instances.

 

If you have a rescue cat who would have otherwise been killed and now lives with you, and the cat wants to play for its own enjoyment, then there's no question of ethical dilemma.

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No worries, IYM - with the odd questions going around here these days, sometimes the line between humor and seriousness can be a bit blurry I just can't believe some of the things that get asked from time to time, as if getting a few people on a message board to agree with a non-vegan act suddenly makes it much more acceptable. Oh well.

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