(August 24, 2011 at 10:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The argument holds even under battery farming (which I'm not a fan of). The cow again would not have lived, and it would meet an even more "in-humane" adversary in life as a wild animal. Not to mention it's eventual end beneath the slow jaws of some carnivorous predator that hasn't developed stun/bolt. Or starvation, disease, and injury.
Right, plus modern methods for killing in abattoirs avoid an enormous amount of the pain of being killed and eaten by some other animal.
Even while that argument may work for battery farming and it could be realistically be deemed amoral I'd still largely abstain because of my own attitudes.
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