How come dogs have legal protections but pigs don't?

Pigs are actually more intelligent than dogs and dust dogs on all of the different smart animal tests (1A). Also, there's really no reason for people in modern society to eat pigs, aside from the fact that pigs are delicious. If you lived a hundred years ago or if you live in the jungle now and don't have access to other fats and fatty acids that the body needs, that makes sense and whatever.

There's not a second that goes by when someone isn't killing a pig and cutting it up so people can eat it.

But if someone kills a dog and cuts it up so people can eat it, they are arrested andhave to hire a lawyer and their mug shot is on the late local news and they lose their job and nobody wants to be their friend anymore.

Sometimes social norms doen't seem all that normal.


•••1A - Pigs outperform dogs overall. They master complex tasks faster, like using mirrors for self-recognition (a rare cognitive milestone dogs lack) and operating joysticks to play video games. Pigs solve puzzles (e.g., retrieving food via tools or levers) with fewer trials, showing superior executive function. In social intelligence, pigs recognize human faces, follow pointing gestures, and deceive conspecifics strategically—behaviors dogs excel at but pigs match or exceed in lab tests.

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