Slavery and eating animals

[abaris]

Slavery- took the horrid form of roman/European slavery.
Eating animals - Took the horrid form of factory farms.

Nothing took a horrid form it didn't already have. What, besides being ignorant of history, gives you the impression that slaves were better off before the Romans or Europeans? The bible itself tells a different tale in saying you can beat your slave within an inch of his or her life and if they didn't die within a couple of days, you were off the hook.

One could even argue that slaves in Roman times were better off, since there were actual laws protecting them to a certain degree and they could buy their freedom. Some did and became prominent figures in the empire. Now that's certainly not an argument for slavery, but an argument against your rose tinted glasses.

Same goes for animals. We've come a long way since the times of the bible and the treatment of animals. Today, at least in most civilized countries, there are laws and regulations in place, the Jews, the Romans or the Greeks didn't even consider. Again, that's not an argument to justify the outrage that's still happening in some places, but against glorifying a past that wasn't glorious at all.