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Not trying to be a SJW but a drove an 18 wheeler for a year and would pick up meat from slaughter houses and the way they treat those animals is god forsakenly
by hasty_pudding 3y ago
Not trying to be a SJW but a drove an 18 wheeler for a year and would pick up meat from slaughter houses and the way they treat those animals is god forsakenly bad.They put hundreds of chickens in a room and spray water with electrical current into it. The cows would come in on trucks just terrified with the walls covered in their own feces. Not even going to get started on the conditions in which they are raised.
It made me really cut down on my meat eating and pay the extra for local farm raised meat.
Im not even against eating meat! I just think the mass industrialization of slaughter is messed up.
If you look at almost every menu though its like 90% meat so the amount of meat we consume on America is remarkable.
Capitalism is really good at hiding horrible abuse of people and animals behind a veneer of civilization and the abstraction of a blameless neutral currency.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoCapitalism isn’t unique by any means in that correct observation
- hasty_pudding 3y agoCurrency abstracts abuse into a neutral system of value and capitalism/industrialism enables this at a massive scale.
- hasty_pudding 3y agoSame thing happens with drug cartel money
- chr-s 3y agoUnfortunately, your local farm raised meat might still go to that big slaughterhouse. It's expensive for small farmers to run their own on-site USDA inspected slaughterhouse. Also, the chickens you eat are still likely suffering for much of their lives even if raised on a local farm. The best thing that could happen to broiler chickens is for them to go extinct.
- lupire 3y agoWhy is abuse bad? I don't want to be abused. Why should others being abused bother me? This is a deep and hard question to answer, beyond your personal feelings. But your personal feeling is also that raw wheat is not palatable. Yet you eat enjoy bread, thanks to capitalism transform it for you. Also, your local farmer murders cows.