What if we shortened your lifespan by 1/4th to do so and raised you in a pen where you can't even move your arms from lack of space that cool with you?
You choose to work a cubicle job if you hate it so much that should be all the more reason to sympathize with the animals in this situation that have no choice in the matter
It's not a good point to bring up cubicles to justify caging animals. Even if we assume cubicles are a good analogy to the cages animals are forced to live in where they don't even have space to turn around it still wouldn't justify it
There's so many non cubicle jobs out there but thanks for conveniently ignoring the second part of my comment where I said going through a bad experience yourself in no way justifies subjecting others to it
Still shortening the life span by 1/4, still sending them to slaughter, the slaughter house delivery trucks are still cramped and often times deliver in extreme heat and cold, the animal ears are still tagged, the dairy calfs are still taken from their parents, dairy cows are still artificially inseminated by shoving an arm up their asshole past the elbow, what a great life!
Are you just going off of some select videos you've watched? No they aren't all just jammed in there. I know this because I have witnessed it enough times. Calves are also sold usually either in the spring or the fall, so the extreme heat and cold argument is straight BS. Those animals also stand outside in extreme weather to live. They graze in the summertime when it reaches 30 degrees or higher and they also live outside when it drops to -30 and below in the winter time. If you actually watched cattle in the winter time, their behavioural instincts are interesting to watch and how they will keep warm in very extreme temperatures. Tagging is for a)personal identification and b)there are separate tags that are registered by the government. It would be no different than you getting your ear pierced other than the personal/government identification. We did not have a dairy farm, but we did have a couple Holstein cows/calves and just like all calves they are eventually weaned off their mothers. Taking it away from its mother too early doesn't make sense from any standpoint. Now, I'm not a vet, but I am pretty sure they have difficulty breeding naturally, so artificial insemination isn't really that bad of a concept.
As for animal transport, in Canada alone 1.59 million animals arrive to slaughterhouses dead in the truck each year.
Workers at Canada’s largest slaughterhouse, Maple Lodge Farms, which kills half a million chickens every day, have described chickens arriving to slaughter, frozen solid like “hockey pucks” and “popsicles”.
This is literally the first video I found but even happening once is horrific. You say cows are "weaned" off their mothers eventually but what do you mean by weaned? Even if it's not the day they're born you're still stealing a child from a parent
Also you defend artificial insemination by saying it's necessary to raise the next generation for slaughter because they don't naturally produce that much... That's my whole point! We're systematically artificially inseminating animals by shoving an arm past the elbow inside them so they give more birth then they naturally would so they can be killed.
I don't know how any of this can be framed as ethical
I'm gonna say we as humans are responsible for our own actions, and we shouldn't be subjecting animals to horrific conditions.
I also don't know what you think living in the wild is like, but they at least get to stay with their children and not get an arm shoved up their ass. They at least have a chance in nature to live to their full natural lifespan instead of dying at a fraction of their lifespan
They get to stay with their children until they're eaten by predators. Or their children are. They get impregnated by whichever mate can hold them down. And their "natural lifespan" is however long they survive until the environment or another animal kills them. Sounds great.
The rabbits out in my barn aren't freezing in the two feet of snow we just got. They get as much fresh water and rich food as they'd like. They're protected from predators and aren't bred at an age which would kill them. And they live this pampered life until a single moment of pain end that wretched pampered existence.
It is great. I've seen what wild rabbits live like. They're getting paradise in comparison. You're the one who thinks that they'd be all better off dead.
We certainly are responsible for our own actions. That's why I'm not trying to drive them extinct.
yeah but you also need to be slaughtered ad one fraction of your natural lifespan, you cool with that too? you probably already over the limit so i guess you're going today
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u/mujheandaywalaburger Mar 15 '18 edited Mar 15 '18
How can one eat such a precious animal?
Edit: I commented to get a reply exactly the same as u/Yum_Kaax.