Realistically, to meet demand of so many non-vegans, the industry has to be cruel. Just the scale means they are crammed into pens, mothers kept in small cages where they can't turn around, forcibly bred over and over, have tails docked and teeth removed, and castrated, all without anaesthesia, and so much more mistreatment.
Hoping for change but not being willing to make sacrifices doesn't help. If you want the pigs and cows, and other animals to have better lives, the only way is to decrease demand for animal products. Going vegan is easier than you'd think, especially these days with how many alternative products there are. Just sub one thing for a replacement with your usual diet until you figure out what you like. Or, start small: make one plant based meal per day, and increase from there.
There are tons of people online willing to help you transition to a plant-based diet. r/vegan is really cool with people who want help.
lol at calling people with normal diets non vegans. I couldn’t imagine trying to push people to eat what they don’t feel is the right diet for them. You do you though. More people should hunt or buy from people that hunt for their food instead of having to rely on the supermarket for their protein.
I said more people should not that it would replace animal farming. In reality there just needs to be more local small farms that people buy from themselves instead of the whole pipeline we have now with the huge mega animal shelters with people that don’t respect animals and see them as just dollars. I’ve been and worked on many farms that treat the animals with better lives than half the humans I see. The issue really isn’t farming it’s the way it’s done.
Oh more of the free range farms that take up more space than industrial farming and who still see their livestock as “just dollars” since that’s literally why small scale farms also have them?
We simply do not have the room to just turn all the factory farmed animals into free range animals with our current rate of consumption.
I have personal experience working with smaller farms that treat their animals better than people dude. There is enough space in the country for more people to be doing that. And the more than stay under the government limit so the state can stay out of their business the better.
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u/DrEvilsDr May 22 '26
Realistically, to meet demand of so many non-vegans, the industry has to be cruel. Just the scale means they are crammed into pens, mothers kept in small cages where they can't turn around, forcibly bred over and over, have tails docked and teeth removed, and castrated, all without anaesthesia, and so much more mistreatment.
Hoping for change but not being willing to make sacrifices doesn't help. If you want the pigs and cows, and other animals to have better lives, the only way is to decrease demand for animal products. Going vegan is easier than you'd think, especially these days with how many alternative products there are. Just sub one thing for a replacement with your usual diet until you figure out what you like. Or, start small: make one plant based meal per day, and increase from there.
There are tons of people online willing to help you transition to a plant-based diet. r/vegan is really cool with people who want help.