I don’t know if Mr. Doyon, from the Union des producteurs agricole, has a pet. If so, does he find, when he pets his dog or cat and talks to Rex or Mr.she Moustache, as do all those who live with an animal, that it is anthropomorphism to act in this way?
“We must avoid falling into anthropomorphism and attributing human emotions to animals,” he says, regarding farm animals. It’s true, we shouldn’t think that animals think or feel things like us, but they grasp reality, especially mammals, in a fundamentally similar way when it comes to emotions such as fear, pain, anxiety. , distress, affection and well-being. Maybe even the resemblance goes much further, but animals can’t tell us that. Mr. Doyon, meanwhile, should get out of his anthropocentrism and stop considering farm animals as objects “devoid of humanity”, and therefore usable as such.
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