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I am not saying that factory farming is perfect or even good. But to compare it to shark finning is a huge leap. Are factory farmed animals stuffed with antibi
by jacurtis 4y ago
I am not saying that factory farming is perfect or even good. But to compare it to shark finning is a huge leap.
Are factory farmed animals stuffed with antibiotics, force fed obscene amounts of food, and shoved into crowded environments? Yes to all of those.
But they aren't mutilated while still alive and left helpless, unable to move, while they slowly die over the course of hours or days with nearly all of their meat is left unused in favor of a single bodypart. Further add that many of these shark species are endangered and their diminishing populations endanger thousands of other species. Sorry, but that's worse than factory farming.
Not saying that factory farming is good. There's plenty of improvement to be made there and plenty of horrors to talk about. But as bad as it is, its no where near as bad as shark finning. At least factory farming are killed humanely and their meat is put to good use.
Once factory farming starts taking cows, chopping their legs off to harvest the hooves and then leaving the cows alive in a field while they bleed out slowly, unable to move, eat, drink where they die several days later after days of suffering. Once that happens, then you can start comparing factory farming to shark finning.
- ChadNYC 4y agoCheck out what happens in gestation crates. Both finning and factory farming are horrific. We don’t need to compare them.
- rtev 4y agoThe scale of factory farming suffering is much greater than the shark fin industry, even if most of it is a milder form of torture. This just reads as “that’s worse!” fallacy caused by cognitive dissonance. Both can be bad and it strikes me as hypocritical to partake in one and demonize the other.