[Bommer]

Lawrence O'Donnell is absolutely right. Pigs, for example, are every bit as intelligent, loving, and capable of pain as are dogs, and as unwilling to be killed or tortured.

There is a BIG difference between raising an animal for meat and slaughtering them, and raising a dog to fight (sometimes to the death) and because it loses a fight you beat it to death or hanging it. Most animals for meat products are killed quickly and as humanely as possible. I do not see how you compare a pig which is raised for either medical research or meat, verses a dog which is raised for companionship and protection.

[Savage Beast]

It's easy. Both love. Both suffer. Both fear pain and death.

I'm not against medical research on animals or eating animals when it is necessary. I am against denial about it. And I hate cruelty. That's my big turn-off. When James Lipton asks me what turns me off, it'll be cruelty.