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Sorry, but I have a bone to pick with people spouting this type of blanket rhetoric. Animals are treated as units of production in developed countries because
by bryanh 16y ago
Sorry, but I have a bone to pick with people spouting this type of blanket rhetoric.
Animals are treated as units of production in developed countries because this is what is required to provide sustenance at a scale that makes it economically feasible for hundreds of millions of people to eat better than ever before in the history of humanity. [1]
Seriously, how many times must we start over every time someone watches Food Inc.?
[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures/Data/Expenditures_tables/table7.htm http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures/Data...
- yuhong 16y agoTreating the animals better would still be better than irradiation.
- bryanh 16y agoNo one but you is comparing the two. * One is a moral judgement: Should we subjectively mistreat animals in order for humans to be healthy and prosper? * The other is a scientific question: Is irradiation a safe and effective food sanitizing method? Guess which one has dozens and dozens of studies to back it up? OP posted a few links, but try the CDC's take on it: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/tauxe.htm http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/tauxe.htm
- jackowayed 16y agoThe average American would probably eat a lot better if (s)he ate half as much meat. And cutting meat consumption would allow even more people in the world to eat well. And your link is only moderately related. Yes, we're spending less on food. Yes, we'd have to spend more on food to eat the same exact diet without factory farming animals. But it doesn't make any claim that we are eating better than ever before in the history of humanity.
- szany 16y agoRequired? http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat.html http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_bittman_on_what_s_wrong_with_w...