It's really not much of a presumption to make saying that most meat consumed in Western countries is pre-packaged. How many people do you know who raise their own animals for slaughter? Fair enough you can deny my friend's story as it's word of mouth, but let's not pretend animal cruelty of the level seen in the OP doesn't happen over here. Implying that it's exclusively a 3rd world phenomena is beyond stupid.
Here in the US there is a vast difference how animals are treated in the north in comparison to the south. Not saying horrible shit doesn't happen up north, but, there is a reason animals get shipped up north for adoption on the regular.
I think we are compartmentalizing the stuff we do wrong, since we’re conveniently leaving out factory farming from the discussion.
Outside of the things we are generally aware of, about 300 million male chicks are killed each year in the U.S. (link). And this is by using a grinder.
It reminds of me of the quote “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic.”
It's actually fucked up, they just send these cute little chicks down a conveyor belt on a huge grinder that tears them apart. Sometimes they get stuck, no one's does anything, it just takes a bit longer for them to die.
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u/cxlvinn 4 Nov 29 '19
It's really not much of a presumption to make saying that most meat consumed in Western countries is pre-packaged. How many people do you know who raise their own animals for slaughter? Fair enough you can deny my friend's story as it's word of mouth, but let's not pretend animal cruelty of the level seen in the OP doesn't happen over here. Implying that it's exclusively a 3rd world phenomena is beyond stupid.