RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 17, 2012 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2012 at 9:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think the disconnect here is what you term "unneccessary suffering", honestly. Many people take a naive or polemicized view of what suffering is entailed in the process of livestock production (or why this or that practice is used).
We've all seen the documentaries where cameras are taken into shitty slaughterhouses. The viewer might be left with the notion that this is how it is done, or the only way that it can be done. This is entirely untrue. This is a problem of standards and enforcement, not morality or ethics. It may seem strange to stun an animal then bleed it out, but this is "necessary" to prevent spoilage of the meat.
Meat is a very important food source for us. It may seem "unnecessary" to you but this is likely due to your country of origin. Agricultural crops are not as reliable as livestock (except in capital intensive systems largely relegated to first world countries, and even then often on the backs of livestock operations in third world countries), common protein substitute crops are not suitable for production in all areas. This is letting aside the big hungry gap in any given climate beyond the subtropics (the tropics actually have a hungry gap in the warmest months, some parts of the subtropics do as well).
We've all seen the documentaries where cameras are taken into shitty slaughterhouses. The viewer might be left with the notion that this is how it is done, or the only way that it can be done. This is entirely untrue. This is a problem of standards and enforcement, not morality or ethics. It may seem strange to stun an animal then bleed it out, but this is "necessary" to prevent spoilage of the meat.
Meat is a very important food source for us. It may seem "unnecessary" to you but this is likely due to your country of origin. Agricultural crops are not as reliable as livestock (except in capital intensive systems largely relegated to first world countries, and even then often on the backs of livestock operations in third world countries), common protein substitute crops are not suitable for production in all areas. This is letting aside the big hungry gap in any given climate beyond the subtropics (the tropics actually have a hungry gap in the warmest months, some parts of the subtropics do as well).
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