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Just anecdotal, but some older people I've known who grew up on farms are probably the most indifferent to animal suffering, as long as the animal provides meat
by shagmin 4y ago
Just anecdotal, but some older people I've known who grew up on farms are probably the most indifferent to animal suffering, as long as the animal provides meat or whatever their utility is. Animal welfare is only a thing kids are concerned about that they need to grow out of. Combine that attitude with the growing scientific revolution and desire to partake in scientific experiments and such, and I could see how this emerges.
- ars 4y agoTo them animals are tools, not feeling creatures. And in their defense for virtually all of human history, except for recently animals were always tools. Judaism actually has a law called "Tza'ar ba'alei chayim" which prohibits unnecessary suffering to animals, and mandates a procedure for painless slaughter. This was unprecedented for its time - back then no one cared at all.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoI don't know about the US, but in my neck of the woods that's still the case. Rural folk don't care about animal welfare at all — you'd be laughed out of the room for trying to discuss something like that. Feeding chickens and pigs for meat and then slaughtering them is just something you normally do. Having spent a decent chunk of my childhood in a rural area (and seen many pigs being killed by various methods, none of them very humane), I also don't care about this stuff too much tbh.
- GoodbyeMrChips 4y ago