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"If meat production was all done humanely, then a large section of society wouldn't be able to afford to eat meat" We might eat less meat, but you can buy meat
by standardUser 4y ago
"If meat production was all done humanely, then a large section of society wouldn't be able to afford to eat meat"
We might eat less meat, but you can buy meat today that is humanely raised for marginally more expensive than the factory farmed stuff. And that's with the overhead associated with small producers in a niche industry. If we were to make humane standards universal, cost savings would obviously follow. Just look at Europe.
This is a solved problem that only persists due to mass American indifference to how our meat is tortured and poisoned before we eat it.
- cbrozefsky 4y agoI think regulatory capture and the power of absolutely massive monopolies in our industrial agriculture systems are what makes the problem persist. Awareness of the issue is not the obstacle. We can all be aware of it, people regularly complain about this or that part of the food system, but when we organize and fight to improve it, we meet incredible power arrayed against us. We can win, and do, but that poeer, not our lack of awareness, is the problem, IMO
- Thlom 4y agoMeat production is not that much more humane in Europe to be honest. It's difficult to humanely produce meat at the same scale and price as industrial meat production.
- standardUser 4y agoEuropean standards don't allow many of the worst techniques that are used routinely in US meat production. And everything is difficult until you do it. And everything costs more until its done at scale.