WOW, PETA people really are crazy!

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"Lack of long-term memory != incapable of suffering"

That is the only reasonable thing you said. What people view as "suffering" seems to be intimately linked with memory, intelligence, and rationality. Feelings like dread, loss and despair, which are the heights of human suffering cannot be felt by animals. Even physical pain requires a great sense of awareness of what is going on. We don't feel pain when unconcious. How concious is an animal really?

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Conscious enough to feel pain. If you ignore this, you are either a liar or a retard, possibly both.

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Backhanded insults are another thing that animals are incapable of. You are clearly anthropomorphizing animal conciousness and pain when it is clear that human awareness is on a completely different level. How sapient is an animal?