RE: are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?
May 15, 2013 at 8:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2013 at 8:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 15, 2013 at 6:18 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Do you think that our shift from small farm life and slaughtering our own bacon was the result of growing repulsion to the act of slaughtering animals, or would you say that the growing repulsion to the act of slaughtering animals is an effect, rather than the cause, of our desire for convenience?I know this wasn't directed at me, but to reply, even the convenience is an effect, a result. We didn't engage in any of our current agricultural practices with convenience as the impetus. We were starving and/or malnourished - in the US-...not so long ago..and the success of our agricultural practices in alleviating that became a model for the rest of the globe.
We don't slaughter our own pigs because we don't have to, not because of some moral development which made us seek alternatives to drawing our own blood for meat.
It isn't that we don't slaughter our own pigs because we don't have to, but that we don't slaughter our own pigs because it is inferior - in every conceivable way and metric, to our current method-without convenience even remotely entering into the equation- and it just so happens, that due to this, we don't have to. How many of us here have confidence that we would be able to raise and then slaughter a pig in a way that is safe, reliable, and quantifiable - even if we understood the process- on a scale grand enough to feed even our own households or city blocks? I know I ate some dirty meat coming up.
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