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When I do eat meat, I'll buy pastured meat only from the farmer's market or ethical butchers. Pastured chicken is $16 a pound. This is definitely not feasible f
by magic_beans 8y ago
When I do eat meat, I'll buy pastured meat only from the farmer's market or ethical butchers. Pastured chicken is $16 a pound. This is definitely not feasible for the average shopper. But then again -- people don't need to be eating chicken every single day.
- nocobot 8y agoI'm a low income student (in a first world country so still far from poor) and it is totally doable for me to only buy animal products from ethical sources. It just means I eat a lot less of it. I don't think everyone needs to be able to afford to eat meat every day.
- mfoy_ 8y ago>I don't think everyone needs to be able to afford to eat meat every day. I think you mean not everyone needs to eat meat every day... the way you phrase it makes it sound like an argument for lowering the minimum wage.
- ArrayList 8y ago> ethical butchers No such thing. Nice buzzword/oxymoron.
- freedomben 8y agoNot sure if you're just trolling or not, but I'm genuinely interested in understanding your perspective more. Although I don't expect you to take my word for it, I'm very open minded on this subject. I went vegan at one point. However, is it really less ethical to raise animals (in humane circumstances, open pasture, etc) and butcher them quickly than to either: a. Cause them to never exist and never experience life at all (presupposes that one places higher value on existence than non-existence, which is philosophically debatable of course) b. Cause them to die a natural death at the hands of either predators that will mangle and mutilate them, or to disease which is a slow and terrible way to go? I've never seen such cruelty as is found in nature. Even just seeing what the neighborhood cats do to the birds makes my stomach turn. I think if I were mangled and blinded, I'd be begging for somebody to kill me quickly.
- matchbok 8y agoPlease provide better comments.
- sctb 8y agoCould you please start posting more substantively? This isn't a one-liner sort of place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- darkarmani 8y agoI read this as "pasteurized chicken". I was really confused by what you meant at first.
- drcoopster 8y agoThey just take the chicken and raise the temperature to 71.5°C for 15 seconds, then chill it. Way easier than actually providing them a pasture. ;)