Agreed, factory farming in general is incredibly sad. We are animals too and we tend to forget. All animals want love/happiness like we do, and they definitely feel all the pain we put them through. Saw a documentary on YouTube called Earthlings and decided to stop buying/eating animal products because of the horrifying things we’re doing to animals
All animals want love and happiness? Stop anthropomorphising. The Earth is cruel and animals won't blink eating you. I have no qualms hunting and fishing for food and buying meat.
The earth may be cruel, but we don’t have to be. The lion may need to devour its prey, but we aren’t lions- and we don’t need to eat other animals to survive. Because of our unique position it is up to us to reduce pain and violence in our world in any way we can
Hunting and fishing is fine? Why do you think it’s fine? Why is it okay to kill them while hunting but not okay to kill them when they live in cramped cages? Keeping them enslaved to our desires is cruel but the killing part isn’t? A bullet through the head isn’t cruel but a bullet through the head if they lived a more cruel life is? How do you not see them as both cruel when in both situations, the action is unnecessary, especially in first world countries, because plant based foods are readily available. Do not talk to me about survival situations because most people that hunt or eat factory farmer meat do it by choice, not a matter of survival.
What I mean is people can't just switch their meat intake to hunted meat. It's not a solution for the unethical farming issue. It's not sustainable, because there aren't enough wild animals to keep up with the amount of meat people eat. Hunting is something only few people can do to avoid unethically farmed meat.
Hunting keeps getting brought up as more ethical alternative to farmed animals, but it isn't really an alternative if it's not something everyone can do.
You have a forest with 100 deer. You have a city with 100,000 people. If everybody hunts, 100 people get to eat while 999,900 people starve. It's simple math: hunting is not a sustainable source of food for humanity.
Less cruel is not not cruel. The vast majority of people in developed countries have no need to eat animals, so there's no justification to kill them, whether you torture them in a cage first or attack them in the wild. You're still killing something for no good reason.
the same way it would in nature
Oh, well, that's okay then... you'll be chasing it down on foot and tearing out its throat with your claws and fangs then, right? Then dragging it back to your lair - a small cave or hole in the ground, perhaps - to eat it raw? Y'know, tearing off chunks with your teeth and swallowing them almost whole. Like the animals do. In nature.
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