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Cattle, in particular are raised and harvested in far more humane conditions than in a state of nature. My friends raise cattle and pride themselves on giving t
by merpnderp 8y ago
Cattle, in particular are raised and harvested in far more humane conditions than in a state of nature. My friends raise cattle and pride themselves on giving them a happy healthy life until they are sent off to the stockyards. In contrast I just watched a video about two hunters freeing a buck that was entangled in the horns of another buck which was dead. The other buck had died from coyotes eating it, starting on its hind legs and hind end, in what must have been a gruesome, prolonged death. In the past I've seen animals which lie down to give birth killed the same way by coyotes.
- rosser 8y agoI've also seen slaughterhouse videos depicting the most gruesome, heinous abuses inflicted upon livestock animals (beating them, stabbings, repeated shocking with obviously higher voltages than mere prods — often in front of their peers, who are queued for the same fate). I applaud your friends for their endeavor, but the fact that some in the livestock industry behave ethically doesn't change a whit the parts that don't. That nature, in its perpetual state of "kill or starve", behaves so callously is utterly irrelevant to how we can and should behave given our demonstrated capabilities and generally self-congratulatory "My gosh, aren't we the best thing that's ever happened?!" attitude.
- QuotedForTruth 8y agoAnd the number of livestock with shitty factory lives is multiple orders of magnitude greater than the number on happy animal friendly farms.
- cageface 8y agoCattle raised on small boutique farms represent a tiny fraction of the livestock raised for beef, most of which endure some truly horrific treatment. Watch the film Earthlings if you're interested in knowing the truth. https://vimeo.com/209647801 https://vimeo.com/209647801