[metacritic12]

The article has a good point from a few Faroese guys about how the mass inhumane US harvesting of beef, chicken, and pigs, is probably very similar in aggregate.

But when the food item is something Americans culturally eat, it becomes difficult for animal rights activists to push on because they get labeled as crazy immediately. Whereas food items Americans are not used to eating like whale or snake gets a round of applause from Americans and justifies a bit of underlying racism about how that other culture is simply an inhuman culture.

[tokai]

Its a bad comparison. Breeding or harvesting an animal is not the same. They provide different suffering for the animals and different pressures on different biotopes. Its very much like the old soviet whataboutism when pressured on their domestic suppression: "well in the US they lynch people". Meat production in US might be bad, but its not a defense for overfishing the Atlantic.

[theonlybutlet]

It's the intelligence of the animal that's the issue. Not some cultural bias.

[metacritic12]

Pigs are widely considered pretty intelligent, but I don't think the median American thinks of then as more wrong to eat than say chicken.