The UK doesn’t care. People don’t envision these animals as living beings with feelings and a capacity for suffering, or the fact that even as I’m typing this sentence, in this moment, that there’s billions of them all experiencing extreme cruelty, sorrow and pain. They perceive animals as objects, akin to a cup of a water or a television, something to be utilised and discarded at will. This is enhanced by the fact that we refer to animals as an “it” and not a “they”.
At the end of the day so long as people’s endless supply of “muh bacon” isn’t interrupted most people genuinely do not care about the conditions these beings exist in. Sure, maybe they’ll kick up a little bit of a verbal fuss, they’ll stand around and grouch to each other and say “isn’t that just terrible? Yes, awful, awful”, but they won’t change anything. They’ll still keep funnelling their money into the products of these cruelties, and so the companies will simply keep on accepting that money and manufacturing their cruelties.
Reason number #2730 to not eat meat.
St Bacon the Butty will have his daily hordes of worshoppers and even if everyone magically goes vegan/veggi it seems he won’t be stopped. Eating meet is a miracle of stupidity at this point, with all that we know about climate change and animal sentience.
Article fails to mention that farrowing crates are still very much legal and used in the UK. They are essentially the same as sow stalls, the pig just spends less time in them. Your bacon and ham both had shit lives. There is no such thing as ethical mass meat production.
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The UK doesn’t care. People don’t envision these animals as living beings with feelings and a capacity for suffering, or the fact that even as I’m typing this sentence, in this moment, that there’s billions of them all experiencing extreme cruelty, sorrow and pain. They perceive animals as objects, akin to a cup of a water or a television, something to be utilised and discarded at will. This is enhanced by the fact that we refer to animals as an “it” and not a “they”.
At the end of the day so long as people’s endless supply of “muh bacon” isn’t interrupted most people genuinely do not care about the conditions these beings exist in. Sure, maybe they’ll kick up a little bit of a verbal fuss, they’ll stand around and grouch to each other and say “isn’t that just terrible? Yes, awful, awful”, but they won’t change anything. They’ll still keep funnelling their money into the products of these cruelties, and so the companies will simply keep on accepting that money and manufacturing their cruelties.
Reason number #2730 to not eat meat.
St Bacon the Butty will have his daily hordes of worshoppers and even if everyone magically goes vegan/veggi it seems he won’t be stopped. Eating meet is a miracle of stupidity at this point, with all that we know about climate change and animal sentience.
Article fails to mention that farrowing crates are still very much legal and used in the UK. They are essentially the same as sow stalls, the pig just spends less time in them. Your bacon and ham both had shit lives. There is no such thing as ethical mass meat production.
https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk/farm-animal-welfare/pigs/what-are-farrowing-crates/#:~:text=Farrowing%20crates%20are%20legal%20and,are%20about%20to%20give%20birth