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Originally Posted by LordFu  What, precisely, is inhumane about raising and slaughtering animals. Some specific operators may run an inhumane operation, or a particular practice may be inhumane, but to claim that it is inhumane to kill animals under any circumstance is lunacy.
As long as the animal does not suffer, it is humane by definition. |
That is a fine distinction, and one you can debate depending on your values.
Yet the fact is that the VAST majority of the MILLIONS of animals that are slaughtered DAILY not only die cruel, painful deaths, often hanging from a hook while their blood drains, but they are raised in factory farms which torture them in various ways for their entire lives. You may not be aware of this, or you may hide yourself from the evidence of it as most meat-eaters and milk-drinkers must, but that does not change the reality of it. It is merely willful ignorance.
Pick up the book Food Revolution by John Robbins, read it entirely, and then see what you think about how humane humans are being. The picture of a cow on a little idyllic farm is rare, indeed. It is not what modern meat and dairy production has become.
Read the thread using the link I gave above - that has some other links on this subject, including a movie. Or did you not want to be informed?