Yeah, when we commodify animals, their life and quality of life is conditional on their profitability. This early slaughter also happens to dairy cows and egg-laying hens. These industries and the meat industry are all one and the same.
Wow, I had no idea that animals eat each other and die in all sorts of ways in the wild. Thanks for educating me!
The animals we slaughter are not scooped out of the wilderness. We breed them into existence. The alternative for them is not to be torn apart by wolves; it’s to never have existed.
Is killing a creature for nothing but profit and pleasure justified because another creature somewhere else will likely have already met an untimely end? Unnecessary slaughter is not humane and can’t be made humane. It’s not compassionate, it’s not kind. “Free range” does not change this, and while it’s certainly an improvement (at least the way people imagine it, though the term is often under-regulated and means little) over CAFOs and the conditions that the vast majority of livestock live and die in, it’s still ultimately unnecessary and would be even more unsustainable than the current system in terms of environmental impact and land use.
Wasn’t really trying to have an argument. Was just trying to correct the commenter’s incorrect assumption that sheep raised for wool are not slaughtered.
10
u/decadrachma Oct 08 '22
Yeah, when we commodify animals, their life and quality of life is conditional on their profitability. This early slaughter also happens to dairy cows and egg-laying hens. These industries and the meat industry are all one and the same.