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If it's a more sustainable, cruelty-free source of protein than is currently available, and if it's safe, why not? There are multiple big "if" statements there,
by bradleysz 4y ago
If it's a more sustainable, cruelty-free source of protein than is currently available, and if it's safe, why not? There are multiple big "if" statements there, but should they all pass, I'd be all for it.
- OrvalWintermute 4y agoBy using the term cruelty-free, are you describing dense, commercial feedlot animal production only, or are you including all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting?
- hombre_fatal 4y agoDoesn’t really matter since it doesn’t involve slaughter at all.
- PretzelPirate 4y ago> all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting? Clearly it’s cruel to kill an animal even through hunting. The animal doesn’t want to be shot/stabbed/etc…
- drjasonharrison 4y agoOr transported on noisy truck without food, water, or air heating/cooling, for many hours or days.
- nradov 4y agoAnd yet animals (even herbivores) kill other animals all the time. This concern over the cruelty of killing livestock for food is such a weird human conceit.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoWell, humans have the choice. Likewise, pointing out that rape is common in the animal kingdom isn't very convincing license for humans to rape.
- bradleysz 4y agoThere's a definite spectrum of cruelty, with factory farming near one extreme and many forms of hunting near the other. How much cruelty one can stomach (literally, in this case) is up to the individual, of course.