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>The cost of meat is more than [snip]

THIS is where you're misunderstanding- the stray dogs and cats these families eat are free; hard to find rice and beans that are cheaper than that. You're telling me to stop judging another person's compassion? The hypocrisy here absolutely reeks. Flagging my comment because a fact disagrees with your paradigm is certainly mature. I'm disengaging- I won't free you of your delusions. Good grief.



My point before you went on this tangent of people living in slums, is that a vegetarian diet is cheaper and more compassionate. So here are some facts for your wazoo....

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...

Rice (white), (1kg) 51.41 ₱ 40.00-65.00 Eggs (regular) (12) 87.86 ₱ 60.00-120.00 Chicken Fillets (1kg) 194.91 ₱ 100.00-280.00 Beef Round (1kg) 304.93 ₱ 200.00-450.00 Apples (1kg) 127.25 ₱ 44.09-213.32 Banana (1kg) 73.52 ₱ 40.00-150.00 Oranges (1kg) 118.48 ₱ 40.00-262.60 Tomato (1kg) 64.46 ₱ 30.00-120.00 Potato (1kg) 86.40 ₱ 30.00-150.00 Onion (1kg) 88.76 ₱ 40.00-150.00

As you can clearly see, vegetables and grains cost less than meat.

Your point, that killing and eating stray dogs, rats, cats, etc, because they are freely available, is an absolute extreme fringe case and you negate the fact that these slum inhabitants also earn money and they can buy vegetables and live a more compassionate life if they chose to.

Also I did some research on your claims about slums, in the Payatas slum outside of Manilla city near Quezon, the couple in the below linked article with their 4 children eat food from dumpster diving known as "pagpag" even though they earn up to 1000 pesos per day. It is a choice they make to eat discarded meat. They don't have to, but they choose to.

https://www.businessinsider.in/in-philippine-slums-meat-scav...

You can try to make a point that eating free stray dogs is necessary for impoverished slum dwellers, but the facts seem to contradict your position. Killing is never compassionate.

BTW, I didn't flag your comment, someone else who doesn't like the smell of your BS emotionally charged rant did.

Oh and please disengage for all our sakes Dave.




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