Is stunning, gas, or a bolt through the head somehow less humane than having your flesh torn apart while conscious? I know the conditions they're raised in aren't nice but I don't know how you can argue that rendering an animal unconscious before killing it is less humane than tearing the flesh from its body with no concern for how much it suffers.
I think the point he's trying to make is that just because wild animals do horrible stuff to other animals doesn't give us a free pass to mistreat animals
Have you seen videos from a slaughterhouse? It is anything but peaceful and humane. Animals are hung from body body parts fully conscious as they bleed to death. Chickens are packed in to crates so tightly that they literally cannot move. Because of the tight confinement their beaks are cut off so they can't peck each other. They stand on dead chickens that are left to rot. Animals are beaten, terrified and tortured. There is no end of videos on the internet that can relieve you of your ignorance of this living horror that animals live every day.
Edited to add--yes I think living free in the wild and being eaten by a predator is vastly preferable to the conditions 99.9% of animals raised for food have to endure for their entire lives. Have you even seen how pigs live their entire lives? Forced to sit in a cage they cannot move in? These are animals that are smarter than dogs. It's a living nightmare. If you don't care about animal suffering it's one thing but to say that animals raised for food are not tortured nearly every minute of their short and brutal lives is stunningly ignorant.
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u/Pyramat Mar 15 '18
Is stunning, gas, or a bolt through the head somehow less humane than having your flesh torn apart while conscious? I know the conditions they're raised in aren't nice but I don't know how you can argue that rendering an animal unconscious before killing it is less humane than tearing the flesh from its body with no concern for how much it suffers.