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Regardless of how one would like to spin it, industrial scale animal production means farming animals with the intent to match market prices or you go out of bu
by yes_man 4y ago
Regardless of how one would like to spin it, industrial scale animal production means farming animals with the intent to match market prices or you go out of business. That means the production goes by the minimal animal welfare required by law.
Whether one believes conditions are torturous or not that bad, is beside the point, which is that they wouldn’t even exist if we didn’t spawn them. So what we do is we rip new life into the universe by force for that life to suffer to some degree, its’ life’s only meaning being to be processed for food. There was nothing, now there is. Somehow human kind has decided ethical discussion need not concern animals.
- hcurtiss 4y agoA great deal of product is sold daily that exceeds legal minimums. You've seen "organic" or "pasture raised" labels. All of those are driven by the market.
- ballenf 4y agoOne irony is that every hunter and non-industrial farmer I know goes to significant lengths to limit suffering in the kill. It's factory farms and non-human predators that ignore the subject as much as possible.