People turn a blind eye to it because they mostly don’t care about what happens to the animals we eat.
The reality is very few people that claim to *like animals* actually do, they decompartmentalise their existence because what they really like is the subset of animals known as pets.
The way pigs and chickens are raised is awful
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People often wonder how our ancestors accepted things like the Magdalene laundries, normalised corporal punishment, extreme racism and sexism etc
Our descendants will view us the same way regarding eating animals (I say this as a meat-eater)
Not all food animals are treated badly. My hens have the life of O’Reilly.
It is important to raise the standards for these animals as much as possible – the best solution is for people to start keeping their own animals rather relying on massive factory farms. Unlikely to work given the current green agenda to push everyone into cities however.
Very good article
We expect meat to be too cheap, welfare will always suffer.
It’s up to every individual to wake up and see what is happening to animals.
Even a small start of ‘Meat Free Monday’ is a step in the right direction. Every shop now has Plant Based Alternatives for everything.
Here is a Quote which showed me the way:
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to
such a degree, that they aren’t even considered victims. They aren’t even
considered at all. They’re nothing. They don’t count, they don’t matter,
they’re commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We’ve actually turned
animals into inanimate objects– sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest
magic trick ever performed.
– Gary Yourofsky
Yeah. I try to eat animals who’ve actually had a life outdoors more than the battery farmed shit.
However I like sausages too so it’s a relatively flexible sense of morality.
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People turn a blind eye to it because they mostly don’t care about what happens to the animals we eat.
The reality is very few people that claim to *like animals* actually do, they decompartmentalise their existence because what they really like is the subset of animals known as pets.
The way pigs and chickens are raised is awful
[deleted]
People often wonder how our ancestors accepted things like the Magdalene laundries, normalised corporal punishment, extreme racism and sexism etc
Our descendants will view us the same way regarding eating animals (I say this as a meat-eater)
Not all food animals are treated badly. My hens have the life of O’Reilly.
It is important to raise the standards for these animals as much as possible – the best solution is for people to start keeping their own animals rather relying on massive factory farms. Unlikely to work given the current green agenda to push everyone into cities however.
Very good article
We expect meat to be too cheap, welfare will always suffer.
It’s up to every individual to wake up and see what is happening to animals.
Even a small start of ‘Meat Free Monday’ is a step in the right direction. Every shop now has Plant Based Alternatives for everything.
Here is a Quote which showed me the way:
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to
such a degree, that they aren’t even considered victims. They aren’t even
considered at all. They’re nothing. They don’t count, they don’t matter,
they’re commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We’ve actually turned
animals into inanimate objects– sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest
magic trick ever performed.
– Gary Yourofsky
Yeah. I try to eat animals who’ve actually had a life outdoors more than the battery farmed shit.
However I like sausages too so it’s a relatively flexible sense of morality.