RE: Ethical slaughterhouses
August 15, 2018 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2018 at 4:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
One of the fundamental truths of food is that there's no such thing as a free lunch. 
We can only choose..when it comes to food..what sort of thing we're going to be personally complicit in. We should all have some investment in the ethical treatment of livestock (and..more broadly, the ethical consumption of all food resources). I'll note here that there are, at least..ethical standards in place for livestock. There are no such standards in place for the treatment of animals displaced, killed, and currently suffering as part of how we produce alternatives to livestock.
We can shift around whatever fear and agony and death occurs as a consequence of us simply existing as we are on this rock as it is. We can decide to kill one animal instead of another, or decide to kill animals in a specific way and not another. To kill animals here, but not animals there. This is the full extent of our ability.
We can only choose..when it comes to food..what sort of thing we're going to be personally complicit in. We should all have some investment in the ethical treatment of livestock (and..more broadly, the ethical consumption of all food resources). I'll note here that there are, at least..ethical standards in place for livestock. There are no such standards in place for the treatment of animals displaced, killed, and currently suffering as part of how we produce alternatives to livestock.
We can shift around whatever fear and agony and death occurs as a consequence of us simply existing as we are on this rock as it is. We can decide to kill one animal instead of another, or decide to kill animals in a specific way and not another. To kill animals here, but not animals there. This is the full extent of our ability.
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