My wife was quite sad when I suggested to her that "this little piggie went to market" was in fact the farmer taking the pig to the market to be butchered, and that "this little piggie went wee wee wee all the way home" was probably a piglet taken from its family to replace the "now big enough to sell" pig....
Some don’t, some do. A colleagues daughter who is 4 had the realization that chicken is… chickens, which are cute and funny and nice to pet. She won’t eat chicken now.
The colleague keeps chickens for eggs so she’s exposed to them on a daily basis, so maybe that’s where the difference lies. A pig isn’t a common animal kept in a household or even most backyard farms so a child might not have much exposure to them.
My 3yo realized that sausages were pigs. He asked does that mean pigs eat sausages made of humans? Can WE eat sausages made of humans if we run out of sausages made of pigs?
My aunt and uncle got called for a parent teacher meeting because my cousin wrote a story in 1st grade:
First the farmer pets the bunny. Then the farmer feeds the bunny. Then the farmer gives the bunny some water. Then the farmer kills the bunny and eats him for dinner.
Kids care as much as their parents care and what they teach them. Don't overgeneralize this please. Some do care, maybe most don't but it is something that changes over time.
My colleague was transported to mental health institution with an escort of police straight from the office. And was kept there for 2 weeks. People are treated like trash by other people. I don’t want to think about industrial animal farming. It’s probably the worst of the worst.
> My colleague was transported to mental health institution with an escort of police straight from the office. And was kept there for 2 weeks. People are treated like trash by other people.
How does one thought here follow from the other? I’m not saying that there aren’t egregious atrocities commited in the name of mental health treatment, but it seems that you don’t even attempt to argue that that happened in the case.
With some people in some situations the kindest and most humane thing imaginable is to transport them to a mental health institution and keep them there for 2 weeks. The fact that we have that as an option demonstrates that humans care about each other and are not treating each other as trash.
The baseline, without any systems in place, is that we leave people suffering a mental episode wreak havoc on their own life and the lives of those around them. Now that would be treating people like trash.
As i say it is perfectly possible that your colleague suffered an injustice, or were more harshly treated than would have been possible or reasonable. But then say that, don’t just insinuate it.
