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Cats, Bins and Stalin

Britain is outraged by a woman who threw a cat in a bin, raising questions about inconsistency among meat-eaters.

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Britain is currently being outraged by the woman who threw a cat in a bin for some reason, and got caught on video:

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As a cat person I'm as outraged as anyone, but as a vegetarian I feel that carnivores who object to this are not being very consistent. To paraphrase something that Stalin didn't actually say:

One cat in a bin is a tragedy. 2 million chickens killed every day is delicious

The life of a broiler chicken is not a happy one.

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