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This implies to me that if they "gave away" the extra animals to family farms, there would not be enough takers. Is that true?
by peterlk 6y ago
This implies to me that if they "gave away" the extra animals to family farms, there would not be enough takers. Is that true?
- StavrosK 6y agoKeep in mind that sometimes killing the animal might be the humane option. I certainly wouldn't want a cow left to starve in what's essentially some guy's backyard box. I've seen enough dogs kept in such conditions.
- bbrree66 6y agoThis is a crazy thought so please keep an open mind........ if we didn't mass produce animals to kill and eat them.... we wouldn't have this issue in the first place.
- bluedino 6y ago700,000 pigs alone would need new homes per week.
- karatestomp 6y agoThere aren't that many family farms, and they're going to tend to have about as many animals as they can support already, unless there's some reason they don't want more (just like any business—otherwise you're wasting capital). You might find some hobbyist-types who have extra capacity and would take a cow or three hoping to sell them later since they're relatively easy to care for if you have fenced land (pigs are a bit more specialized; chickens are already cheap and most probably want the egg-laying kind, not the mutant factory farm meat kind), but that wouldn't go very far.