If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
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You mean like pets? I've raised chickens for the purpose of eating their eggs and occasionally a chicken dinner.
The farm to the store is often quite the disconnect. Anyone who's never been on a farm or better yet, been a farmer, suffers from it. More than the meat disconnect, it could include a ton of other things:If you had to kill your own animals in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
Yes, because I know how they were taken care of. I have raised chickens and butchered myself. They all had lives filled with days on green pasture, clean water always, clean barn/house to roost at night.If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
The farm to the store is often quite the disconnect. Anyone who's never been on a farm or better yet, been a farmer, suffers from it. More than the meat disconnect, it could include a ton of other things:
- eggs from inhumane chicken barns
- milk from inhumane dairy
- bananas, coffee, tea, sugar, avocadoes, from cheap indentured labour
- fish from cheap labour, from South Asia
- genetically modified everything
It's good to understand where stuff. I was raised on a farm, and only recently did I see chick peas and lentils in a field.
Watching butchering as a kid most likely contributed to all the reasons I became a vegetarian.
Shooting a deer definitely led to returning the gift of a rifle.
It's in clothing too, that disconnect. Much of our clothing remains a product of agriculture. Pollution, worsening soil conditions, and exploited labour are all a problem.
So too with building materials, and in particular wood.
Eliminating disconnect would help with seeing the bigger picture.
My dad grew up on a farm, and much of my extended family were farmers. My dad never became a farmer himself, though. Like many of his generation, he left the farm to get a city job instead. But I've visited family and spent enough time on farms to at least understand what goes on. My uncle had a dairy farm, although I didn't get the sense there was anything "inhumane" about it. I guess it's a judgment call, since I can't imagine the life of a farm animal is particularly "ideal." I had other uncles and cousins who raised hogs.
They weren't cruel people, but let's face it, they were raising animals for human consumption. A case can be made that they should be treated as humanely as possible until the final moment, but humans use whatever resources are available to survive, whether it's animals, wood, etc.
I think the disconnect is not so much in terms that people don't know where their food, clothing, and wood come from, but I think what amazes me about it all is how it all gets distributed, processed, and transported to a vast population. It's the numbers involved that's staggering, in a country of over 300 million and a world of over 7 billion. It seems a monumental task, not just in growing the food, but in transporting and distributing it world-wide. That seems to be the disconnect, since people may not understand that if one or more interdependent variables falls out of place, it could cause the system to break down.
In the final analysis, if people are hungry, they'll take whatever food they can get, even if it's Soylent Green.
If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?
I'd likely kill if it was an issue of survival. I'd be selective of my prey though and would endeavor to make clean quick kills.If you had to kill animals on your own in order to continue eating meat, would you continue to be a meat-eater? Why or why not?