Ratchet wrote:I'm from a Cajun heritage and I couldn't imagine life without meat. I can't actually remember the last meal I ate that didn't involve meat in some fashion.
Something I've noticed is that you guys are relating meat-eating with the method in which animals are treated on those 'animal farms.' My grandfather currently raises rabbits, chickens, and an occasional pig for butcher. The chickens are fed multiple times a day, have a radio near the coup that plays soft country music during the day, and so on and so forth. They generously give up their eggs each day
The rabbits are raised, played with and scratched as they age, and are killed in the
most humane way possible. That's sort-of an understood thing, that you should treat animals with care, even if you do plan on eating them.
I do agree with you guys, but I tend to not think about the cruelty when I go to the market to get meat. I'm more worried about the growl in my stomach
So, what happens when the hens age and stop laying eggs? It only takes a couple years for most places to get rid of them and get some younger hens in because they don't keep up with their demand. I'm sure you would keep them around longer as a small family thing, but they will stop laying eggs soon enough, then what? Time to die because you no longer lay eggs?
Ratchet wrote:killed in the most humane way possible.
I think that would be by old age .. If you were out picking up animals that were roadkill, or had a pet die naturally, I'd have no moral objection to it. If you want to eat your cat when it passes away at a nice 14 years, go for it ...
Ratchet wrote:I do agree with you guys, but I tend to not think about the cruelty when I go to the market to get meat. I'm more worried about the growl in my stomach
If you think about more than your stomach, you then realize that because we're not meant to be eating meat, our intestines are too long causing the meat inside of us to rot. I know how it is when you think about it, that you have rotting flesh from another (was) living being, because society has made it feel like nothing to take the lives of billions of animals. For some reason, we can kill over 3,000 animals a second, yet 1 human is something to get all upset about. Don't' get me wrong, I care about our species as well, but I think we should look at the people who can treat animals that way a bit differently as well. They feel nothing .. or worse proud when they abuse animal. I know it's not all, but the percentage is high enough that it's common, and they have no consequences for doing so.
Speaking of caring about our species as well .. We would be able to stop starvation in a vegan world. It's been estimated that we could feed about twice the world population that way. To put it into more realistic numbers, you can get 250 lbs of beef, or 3 - 5,000 lbs of vegetables from the same area of land. I know we're a far way away from that world being real, but it looks promising for a distant future. It would be good for the people, animals, and planet.