do you eat meat?
Aug. 14th, 2012 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eIf you eat meat then I know you don't want to think about it, but you are enabling this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3xwGiB4gs
or, the longer version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGRDuEufV4Y
The industry says that this guy is a rogue operator, and yes, he is, but many of the repellent things in the video are "standard practice". Any sane human can see how it is simple torture to keep an animal in a restrictive cage like that, but the meat trade blinds people to this and lets the insanely cruel become "normal".
The guy who runs this farm has been enabled by an industry that is supported by cruelty, and consumers who want to pretend they're not a part of it. This horror is far more common than the meat industry will admit.
Meat is not necessary for our survival -- certainly not in the amounts most of us consume it. We can manage with no effort at all on just one serving of meat a week, or with a little effort entirely without it.
Growing animals for meat is not just the root of a lot of cruelty, but is also the source of a lot of land degradation. Forests get cleared to make way for cattle and sheep. Massive erosion results from turning unsuitable land into pasture. This dries the land and clogs waterways, as well as exterminating countless animals and plants.
When you buy meat in the nice, sanitised packages in a supermarket it is so easy to ignore the reality that you are eating another sentient being which was tortured and murdered simply to suit your luxury.
It is not just bad for the animals we hurt; it is bad for us because it turns us into monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3xwGiB4gs
or, the longer version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGRDuEufV4Y
The industry says that this guy is a rogue operator, and yes, he is, but many of the repellent things in the video are "standard practice". Any sane human can see how it is simple torture to keep an animal in a restrictive cage like that, but the meat trade blinds people to this and lets the insanely cruel become "normal".
The guy who runs this farm has been enabled by an industry that is supported by cruelty, and consumers who want to pretend they're not a part of it. This horror is far more common than the meat industry will admit.
Meat is not necessary for our survival -- certainly not in the amounts most of us consume it. We can manage with no effort at all on just one serving of meat a week, or with a little effort entirely without it.
Growing animals for meat is not just the root of a lot of cruelty, but is also the source of a lot of land degradation. Forests get cleared to make way for cattle and sheep. Massive erosion results from turning unsuitable land into pasture. This dries the land and clogs waterways, as well as exterminating countless animals and plants.
When you buy meat in the nice, sanitised packages in a supermarket it is so easy to ignore the reality that you are eating another sentient being which was tortured and murdered simply to suit your luxury.
It is not just bad for the animals we hurt; it is bad for us because it turns us into monsters.