What about people with autism? or other kinds of low IQ people? they are low intelligence people simply living due to their instinct of eating and procreating. We should start a slaughterhouse for those people too. Also, who decides whose IQ is good enough for him to be safe? well, going by what you are implying, seems like a completely arbitrary exercise to me, so don't complain if a neighbor with higher IQ comes knocking on your door one day.
RE : Cows do not have the same exact rights as humans.
No one really HAS any inalienable rights, it is an artificial concept cooked up by humans among themselves. For example, in certain countries the age of consent is 18, but in Europe, countries who have the age of consent set at 16 include Cyprus, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland, for Austria, Germany, Portugal and Italy it is 14, and in France, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and Greece it is 15. If you married a 15 year old and consummated it, you would be simply called a 'husband' but if you did the same in countries where the age of consent is 18, you would be called a pedophile. So be careful when you go down the 'legal rights' train of thought, you might get crushed under your own argument.
What legal rights exist, is purely a function of the context of your location and the consensus that has been built by the majority there. Whether X group needs to be protected or not is an extension of the same 'laws'. There are states in the US where hunting X animals is legal, same with Europe, which has declared certain birds as pests while at the same time, if you kill any other animal which is not listed on the legal list of pests, you will be jailed. Horse meat is still a taboo, for example. Who decided that a pigeon is more worthy to be killed than a horse? did the governments make all the animals appear for an SAT, GATE test and evaluate their IQ before adding their name to the list of protected species?
For all the vehement support you lend to the rights of people to eat something, I don't exactly see you rallying you for the rights of people to eat horse meat in the US and Canada, where it was a scandal. Have your horses cleared the Mensa challenge? have they cleared Olympiad exams?
Also, for all the pride you have about the morals of the capitalist nations on behalf of whom you are advocating here, it was these same nations who abruptly decided that ******s have no rights and women have no rights. They used to deny women and ******s the right to vote, because "they don't have the same exact rights as white men", they used ******s to inject them with Syphilis and do biological testing on them to develop weapons for WW2. In fact, these same nations also magically decided once that Japanese people living in the US "don't have the same rights as the white men" so they sent them to concentration camps during world war. So, before you cast aspersions on other societies for not conforming to what you consider as the default law of humanity, you must first expand your mental horizons and understand that there is no one law governing all humanity. Different societies make different laws for themselves and who gets to make and amend those laws in those societies is governed by either universal suffrage or some sort of majority consensus. What happens about the minority voices you ask? well, the minimum wage in your country is decided by the corporations, and the laborers have no say in in, and they are not even the minority but they still don't get to set their own wages. If there were an opinion poll, all of them would vote for higher minimum wages, but it never happens. Where's the democracy now? Or is there a sham democracy where you live? People in the west protest to get higher wages, still they are not obliged, similarly, people in India have the democratic right to protest for their 'right to eat' beef, but it is not the responsibility of the establishment to oblige them, nor do the opinions of the outliers override the way we choose how laws are made in our country : majority consensus. Since the majority is Hindu, we are going to continue having the consensus that the beef ban shall remain. Whining about it is still a democratic right though.
Now come back and whine after you have made horse meat legal in US and Canada and increased minimum wages and given women the right to abortion, all of these are issues which your people are complaining about, which you seem to have merrily sidelined to concentrate on cows in India. Let us handle our own problems, you handle yours. Btw, now that gay rights has become legal in your country, make sure you roam around with metal underwear everywhere, tomorrow if someone comes knocking on your door to exercise his right to put his dick into your ass, you will have very little time to run.
For now, you can take this, it is multipurpose,
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