Of course we are superior its a scientific fact . But whit superiority comes responsibility ( Spiderman ) . As Richard Dawkins said we evolved on a stage in which we can leave our primal instincts behind we evolved out of natural selection .

Think about it? Evolutionarily speaking, why would plants need to feel pain? Plants are immobile. They wouldn't need to evolve pain. Pain evolves only in mobile beings with specific physiological and cognitive abilities.

But I wouldn't say they are more or "just as" intelligent as us. You can't really gauge intelligence. It's on a dimensional continuum. It depends on how you define intelligence anyway. All we can say is that dolphins are not as good as we are at what we do (aside from physiological advantages). Perhaps they do things (mentally) that we don't know about, and perhaps they are better than we are at those things. But it is impossible to gauge intelligence. It is simply most likely that our intelligence is more effective than a dolphins, as we can see by what we do.

But if you are impressed with dolphins then you should watch the documentary The Cove. And see what the Japanese do to dolphins. Made possible by your good 'ol capitalism might I add.

They may be slaughtering something that is cognitively the closest thing to us. And the Japanese hunters slaughter them by the thousands thinking the dolphins are just stupid fish. Tragedy.

Now I know some of the conditions above are how some animals live today but back than, what domesticated livestock lived that way? ................yeah thats what i thought

Dolphins don't have an analytical conscience . Let this go . We as humans are evolved enough to leave our primal instincts behind and one being eating meat . We can find a tastier and healthier substitute for it . Don't get me wrong I'm not a vegetarian .

YES WE CAN !! ( Obama style LOL ) . Travel trough out the world and taste world cuisines and you will see . There are actual meals which are whit no meat and they taste better then meals whit meat . Its not about meat it's about the way you make it and what you use in it . Lebanese Cuisine for example is the in top 10 most tasty cuisines in the world and there little to no meat at all in such a cuisine .

Disregard the melodramatic sentimental music. I wish they wouldn't use that to stir emotion. It makes it hard to take seriously sometimes. But the information presented is what's valuable.

Zoos: Some animals are kept in awful conditions. The zoo in my city has had multiple animal deaths (including a male gorilla). Plus obviously their freedom is restricted. All so people can gawk and stare and point and rouse and take pictures of them.

Sport Hunting: Considered fair game if the animal isn't restricted in any way and allowed to run free. They're killed so that some macho man can stick its head on his wall or stuff its body and put it on display to prove how oh so god damn manly he is.

Hunting in general is fucked up because many hunters don't really NEED to hunt for food. They just do it because it gives them an excuse to use their big fat fucking "bad ass" guns. The funny thing is, some hunters go and buy flightless birds, or rabbits, or other smaller animals and then set them loose so that they can hunt them. What the fuck? If they're going to buy the animals, why don't they Just go buy the meat itself if they need it that badly.

Then you got dumb ass little kids target practicing on birds and other animals because they got ignorant ass macho manly daddies who endorse it.

Furs: They're hunted for their fur alone so some materialistic imbecile can walk around and feel high class.

War: Historically animals (horses, mules, dogs, birds) used in war as cavalry, messengers, and transporters. They usually ended up dead (especially horses).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_animal

Pets: Pets are born into a home so that they can be used as toys for amusement of humans. Majority of pets are born into impoverished conditions and end up dieing at some point on the street or euthanized because they are overpopulated (a problem that we have created). Many pets are abandoned or abused because they "don't behave." What the fuck do we expect? Of course they don't behave, they're fucking lower animals. People run out of money they abandon their pets, euthanize their pets, or simply starve them. Some people often take animals from the wild to turn them into pets. What's the result? They often die because dumb ass people think they're animal experts and end up realizing they're fools once they realize they didn't know how to handle the animal.

Rituals: Dumb as religions and traditions sacrifice animals in all kind of ridiculous rituals often times in very cruel ways (dropping them from 10 story windows, beating them, burning them, all kinds of unthinkable sacrifices).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sacrifice

Sports: Dog shows and other animal shows. Dog racing, horse racing, etc. Once the horse falls or breaks its leg it is euthanized. Also bull fighting in which the bull is pointlessly killed by the end after being speared dozens of times.

Gambling: Forcing animals to fight so that people can bet their loot. Dog fights, cock fights, fish fights, almost every kind of animal fight. Dumb shit.

Punishment: A hungry bear attacks a person or attacks a person because they get too near bear cubs. What happens? The "crazed" bear is hunted and shot. Who knows what happens to the bear cubs. Same goes for big cats, wolves, sharks, any kind of predator.

Or if an animal intrudes upon someone's land, crops, or livestock the animal is shot because it is considered a nuisance, when all it is trying to do is survive.

Breeding: Often times the animals are inbred and are left with many incurable diseases. Some of which the owners never know about.

Experiments: Often times the conditions are terrible. I know we need this research for medical reasons, but animals are often mistreated or neglected. We can at least better that. The experimenting is speciesist no matter what. But it is justified by its progressive results. But we can do better.

Farming: They are kept in conditions that would be considered torture if it were humans in their situation. I could write paragraphs on this alone.

Plain 'ol prejudice: I hear people cringe at animals all the time. People say possums are filthy animals because they dig in the trash. They say the same about raccoons (which has characteristics much like a cat in many ways), snapping turtles are pests, rats are pests, birds are pests, rabbits are pests, squirrels are pests, stray dogs and cats are pests, the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and fucking on. Are we that stupid? Do we not realize that we brought many of these "pests" into our human society? Have we forgotten that this planet is for all animals to use? All these animals are simply trying to make their way in the world, trying to survive. But we rather eraticate these "pests" because they're inconvenient. Booh fucking hoo. We need to humbly deal with the animal brethren with which we share a common heritage. It's nothing but annihilation otherwise.

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YES WE CAN !! ( Obama style LOL ) . Travel trough out the world and taste world cuisines and you will see . There are actual meals which are whit no meat and they taste better then meals whit meat . Its not about meat it's about the way you make it and what you use in it . Lebanese Cuisine for example is the in top 10 most tasty cuisines in the world and there little to no meat at all in such a cuisine .

Slaves were treated no worse than animals... Really? listen to yourself. how often were cats whipped? How many cows were strung up and left hanging in trees for looking at someone in a "disrespectful" manner? I'm aware that pigs are left hanging upside down and left to bleed out but its very different when they are being prepaired for human sustinence where the slaves were killed out of pure hatred and ingorance.

I don't know where you are getting all of your information on slavery but this here is a pretty good idea of how shit was handled back than. WARNING, shit may be to real for soft stomached v-people:

exactly. Meat is doused in certain herbs to have that smell and taste after you cook it .

As i said the best cuisines are whit little to no meat . As i already said if you prepare it in a good way and MAKE IT taste good then it will taste good it doesn't really matter if its meat or not . By the way i am a professional certified diploma carrying chef so i don't speak based on popular culture . Although i don't like being a chef i was just forced into being one that's why i am leaving Romania for maybe college in Portugal .

Yeah i know that Romanians are actually one of the descendants of the Ancient Romans so i live in Italy's sister country .