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Do you think quality of life matters? Or is mere existence enough? If so, do you think factory farmed animals have a good of quality life?
by uxcolumbo 6y ago
Do you think quality of life matters? Or is mere existence enough?
If so, do you think factory farmed animals have a good of quality life?
- samatman 6y agoMy conclusion from this argument is that it should lead one to eat: sustainable wild-caught fish, pasture-raised eggs, game meats, beef, sheep, and goat. Avoid chicken (other domestic fowl are generally ok) and pigs, which can be (and are) tortured their whole lives for profit. There is considerable room for improvement in how veal is raised as part of milk and meat production, but calves which avoid that process and end up as meat get: two good years, a couple not-great months, and one really terrifying and shitty day.
- uxcolumbo 6y agoWould this be scalable? Could we replace factory farming with your suggestion? Is our ecological footprint important as well when making food choices? If so, why not listen to the science and try to reduce meat & dairy as much as we can. "A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use,” said Joseph Poore, at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the research. “It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he said, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions." From: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
- yters 6y agoWell, at least most animals don't try killing themselves, regardless of how bad their quality of life is, so they seem to prefer existence to quality of life.