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The truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Humane meat and dairy is yuppie bullshit.
Why is it bullshit to not want your food to cause unnecessary suffering? If I have the choice of eating a burger from a cow that suffered it's whole life or one that was treated well, why would I not choose less suffering?
Oh! You're one of those who things we should all be vegan...not gonna happen for so so many reasons, so why not compromise and reduce suffering in the world?
Life eats life, that's how it works. Organisms evolved to eat meat are not inherently inhumane for following their biological imperative. Our factory farming system IS inhumane in that it causes unnecessary suffering, but that's a result of the scale of operations and our economic system.
The acidity of our stomach alone is clear evidence we are evolved to eat meat, combine that with our need for B12, our teeth, length of intestines relative to other herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores puts the nail in the coffin for the idea that we are not meant to eat meat.
You wear shoes, statistically you probably wear glasses or contacts, all of us have back problems as we ags the idea that we should do what our body evolved to is honestly kinda ludicrous. I mean heck, we are talking through wifi, wires and electricity. We both drive a car to get food through major distribution chains. Nothing in our lives is natural.
Take some damn b12 supplements, the overwhelming majority of people, vegans and carnist alike, have a deficiency anyways.
Yeah, but beans don't have a brain, nerve endings or a nervous system. Sure they are alive, but it's intellectual dishonest to think that a pigs and beans interact with the world in the same way. So yes, life eats life, but my life sustaining food doesn't feel pain. It has for over a decade now.
Like, I feel you should read the article? The idea that you can kill something ethically is cognitive dissonance.
Ever heard of these things called "cats"? They eat things with brains and nerve endings.
Tell me friend, do you also 💩 in a box?
Cats have no sense of morality, civilization, empathy, or agriculture. Our understanding of the world is greater and thus so is our responsibility to act more intelligently. I can't have a discussion with a cat, but you aren't a cat so it's asinine to use them as a metric on rational behavior.
Agree, I just don't think expecting all or even most of the human population to become vegan is a practical reality in the near future, so let's try to reduce suffering in ways that are more likely to happen such as consuming fewer animal products and being less cruel when we do. For those that are willing and able to be vegan that's great, but humans driven to eat meat and without extremely strict enforcement global veganism is a fantasy. That's like expecting the world to go without sex, reasons don't matter, not gonna happen.
I never said anything of the sort. Right from the start you've assumed a lot about me, I left a one sentance reply to an article I agreed with and you've built a straw version of me to argue with your over the top talking points. Stop putting words in my mouth because I agree that it's not realistic of feasebile for humanity to go off meat in either of our lifetimes.
What I am saying is that calling meat "humane" is an inherent contradiction and just a marketing term so people can feel better about their choice to eat meat. Just as "free range" or "cage free" chickens absolutely still live their lives in appaling conditions. It's whitewashing away treating life as a commodity.
Which is yuppie bullshit.
You're right I did, I've talked to many people and get nearly identical responses often and I assumed this of you, sorry.
Ok, that makes sense. Life is inherently not "humane", even when a lion hunts and eats it's hard to call that "humane".
Why should people feel bad about eating what their body has evolved to eat? Feel bad about participating in a disgusting capitalist animal agriculture sure, but not about following biological imperatives we all have.
Yep, that's capitalism and the scale of humanity that's the problem, not people eating what our bodies are meant to.