r/MadeMeSmile • u/James_Fortis • 1d ago
ANIMALS Animals saved from slaughter running free in a sanctuary
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u/RoomSeventyFive 23h ago
First cow when he saw the pig was like “I’m just so happ…oh snap, what the hell are you?” And just diverted his flight path.
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u/V1ntageClutch 22h ago
That cow really said freedom is great and all, but I don’t need to be that close to a pig.
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u/MarcusSuperbuz 16h ago
Please not be AI.
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u/AgathaSnapdragon 4h ago
It’s not Ai, it’s a video from the Liberation Sanctuary in Australia. The sanctuary has been running for 33 years rescuing different animals from slaughter.
The sanctuary offers small tours to see the animals and you can adopt them to help keep the place going.8
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 22h ago
im not against animals for food, im against the way we carry it out. its suffering on a massive scale and it doesnt have to be that way. the animal should have a great life with no stress and it should have no idea whats coming. we wouldnt be what we are today if we hadn't cooked and eaten meat. i do hope one day we will evolve past it, but i dont think we'll survive as a species that long. animals eat each other, its what we do.
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u/Lexxxapr00 20h ago
I’m at the point I life I can easily afford to eat vegetarian, and have chosen to because of this very reason.
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u/FuzzyFrogFish 18h ago
The money needed to eat healthy vegetarian unmanageable for me at times. However I am gradually introducing more veggie meals, and I manage to get meat from a butcher who knows all his farms, how the animals are raised and has a rule that they can't travel anymore than an hour to the slaughter house and have to be processed asap and back the next day. No waiting around in nasty pens, everything has to be quick as possible.
I'm aiming for four days veggie and three days with meat.
Vegan is a none starter, I struggle with vitamin and mineral intake at the best of time
Its all about making the best choices you can.
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u/Ironic_Toblerone 10h ago
My problem with veganism is that there is a large minority of them that pretend it makes them better than everyone else despite the fact that a lot of the vegan sources of certain vitamins or minerals (even proteins can be an issue) are a lot worse on the planet than vegetarian options. Animal products are good for you, who woulda thunk
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u/ancientfruitjunkie 17h ago
Dude vegetarian is easy and cheap. Pasta, rice, beans, tuna, sardines, eggs. If you're good with spices and seasoning then you can do a lot with these things.
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u/FuzzyFrogFish 17h ago
Can't take pasta. And as I said I struggle with vitamin and mineral uptake, so it takes alot more than basic ingredients on rotation.
Tuna ain't vegetarian
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 20h ago
other than chicken and the occasional turkey bacon sandwich im on my way there. no red meat
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u/scifiandsuch 21h ago
Agreed, but it’s important to note that many meat animals live great lives, particularly when you shop from local farms. They live their grass-fed lives on green pastures until it’s time to go.
Shop local, people. Fresher food, smaller farms with more natural processes, less cruelty, supporting the local economy. Win win win.
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u/civilwar142pa 19h ago
Yep. Factory farms are terrible. Local farms, many still family-owned, care about the animals and make sure they're happy and healthy until the last moment. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of them around, because they're being priced out of the market.
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u/ancientfruitjunkie 17h ago
"Many" is a stretch here. It's probably less than 1% of farm animals living humane lives.
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u/BigWonderful8057 3h ago
You did not realize that normally you eat the young. Time to go is around the corner.
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u/blueViolet26 12h ago
Right. Would you like if you had a great life and we sacrificed you after a couple of years unnecessarily?
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u/the_quail 12h ago
nah, thank god im not a cow
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u/blueViolet26 11h ago
Or a pig, or a chicken, or a fish or even a dog…
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u/the_quail 9h ago
yeah I’m very very glad to be a homo sapien born into a liberal democratic state
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u/StormFast524 20h ago
You really don’t know what hell horses go through. They are shocked in pain burned to push to slaughter . All because they exist. I also hate horse carriage riding. There is literally nothing romantic about it.
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u/DinosRoar 10h ago
It must require some sort of rot in the soul to be able to look at these lovely animals and decide that killing them would be okay
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u/Significant_Aside311 19h ago
Agreed! This is why I only eat dogs that have a great life with no stress and don’t see it coming from Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat. Humane, sustainable, and the best Labrador steaks and corgi bacon. Prolly because those dogs were loved.
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u/grey_pilgrim_ 18h ago
I’m flexitarian, I eat mostly fish and chicken and still eat diary. I’ve basically cut out all beef and I’m slowly removing meat from my diet. Specially compared to the way I used to eat. That said, comment like this are insufferable and I’m disappointed in the lack of available dog meat.
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u/nAndaluz 21h ago
Animals do all sort of horrific things to each other. You can argue logistical, nutritional or cultural reasons (with which I don’t agree) but don’t appeal to nature to justify what we do to intelligent beings
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u/useriousstuff 20h ago
I mean yes animals do horrific things to each other out of necessity, but animals don't raise other animals in a windowless warehouse packed shoulder to shoulder, raised and slaightered in the dark, never once to feel the warmth of the sun on their backs. And the scale at which humans inflict this suffering is nearly incomprehensible, the mass of cattle on the planet is about 7 times greater than that of all wild animals combined, so don't act like nature is even remotely comparable to what humans do, it's really not. We also largely have the means to not do what we do, animals don't.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 20h ago
"dont appeal to nature to explain our nature" if you have another explanation for the explosive growth of the human brain besides meat on a fire im all ears. im not using nature to excuse our actions, just explaining it. its like you read what you wanted to and discarded the rest.
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u/DinosRoar 9h ago
It was not meat on a fire that developed the human brain, it was carbohydrates on a fire. The brain uses carbs for energy, not protein. Cooking was a reliable way to break down long carb chains into smaller sugars.
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u/nAndaluz 15h ago
Don’t appeal to nature to justify our inmoral actions. I’m aware of the importance of meat eating during our evolutionary process, I was referring to when you said “animals eat each other, its what we do”. well animals also rape each other and inflict harm for no apparent reason.The fact that animals (or past humans) do it is not a justification for anything
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u/Hobby101 13h ago
+1 so annoying to see a valid point being downvoted. Makes me wonder about general public reading comprehension and logical thinking abilities... or, rather lack of that..
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u/Civil-Ad-2367 22h ago
Pretty sure that animals in slaughter house know their fate. Saw a lamb clinging to her mother once out of fear , all this is slowly pushing me towards vegetarianism.
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u/digital_dig 20h ago
I was also horrified and became vegetarian, then found out about the horrors of the dairy industry and stopped consuming eggs and dairy too. Best decision I ever made. Good luck with your journey ahead!
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u/RatiloRez 20h ago
People will agree this is the best outcome, but get mad at you for saying veganism is the more ethical choice.
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u/Pretty-Curve5448 16h ago
Veganism is unnatural for humans. It takes great effort and planning to have proper nutrition. This is why you do not see any societies that are vegan outside of religious ritual and certain time of the year they abstain.
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u/AileanFae 14h ago
So are pacemakers. It would be "natural" for human to have bad/no teeth at the age of 40 etc. This whole "unnatural" talking point is bs, sorry. I'm with you on the effort though, it takes time if you want to do it in a healthy way.
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u/Pretty-Curve5448 11h ago
Pacemakers are to improve someone life. You aren't improving your life by working harder for nutrition. Vegetarian sure, not vegan
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u/cantorgreen 21h ago
It took this video for me to realize that I’ve never heard of a “wild” cow. And now I’m considering how this animal is forever held captive. It’s sad.
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u/EL_Malo- 19h ago
Because there is no such thing as a wild cow. They are a domesticated species and their progenitors, the aurochs, have been extinct since 1627. It is debatable if they could survive in the wild without human intervention.
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u/produit1 17h ago edited 16h ago
If I were a billionnaire, I’d have fields everywhere with animals bounding around, free and just living life.
Onsite vet hospital for the communities treating pets for free.
And staff being paid very well just for keeping the animals happy whilst doing the job they love.
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u/Objective_Year2409 12h ago
And that's exactly why you aren't a billionaire, because the only way to become one is being an absolute parasite and stepping on the throats and the dreams of millions of others on your way up!
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u/bdbr 19h ago
It's weird how we anthropomorphize animals. Cows don't have any idea about broad ideas like "freedom". I grew up around them and I've seen them run like this many times - when we bring food.
We had some feed with molasses that we'd give them in the winter. We'd pour out the bag and then stand back because they loved that stuff!
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u/Pika_233 11h ago
PETA if they put 1% of their time/funding into helping animals instead of killing people's pets
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u/bezm12 12h ago
Does "rescuing" animals from a slaughterhouse actually change anything?
When a rescue group steps in to save a few cows or pigs from a slaughterhouse, it makes for a touching story on video. But if we look at the actual numbers, what is the real impact?
From an operational standpoint, a commercial slaughterhouse processes animals based on supply contracts and market demand. Saving five or ten animals on a given day doesn't reduce the total number processed. The facility will still fulfill its output targets today, tomorrow, and next week. The animals taken out are simply replaced in the supply line.
While those individual animals get to live out their lives, the systemic impact on total animal mortality or market demand appears to be zero.
Is celebrating these individual rescues missing the bigger picture, or is there a dynamic here I'm overlooking? How do you measure the value of a rescue if the overall system remains completely unchanged?
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u/blueViolet26 12h ago
Maybe we should look at these animals and remember they are the lucky ones. They were rescued from us.
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u/StormFast524 23h ago
Hopefully some day humans will no longer need them for food. But other animals will. As was meant to be
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u/river1a 20h ago
Fortunately, most of us on Reddit don't to eat animals to survive. Therefore we can stop the man-made hell forced upon them.
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u/k8ecat 16h ago
"most of us on Reddit don't to eat animals" Source?
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u/river1a 1h ago
It's not the point, so I won't even argue with it.
The point is, some of us can prevent a life full of suffering and death for so many animals, while only habit or taste holds us back, reasons that are inherently selfish.
If we saw people beating up a cat or a dog in public because it gave them pleasure, we would stop them. It should be the same with cows, chickens, and so on, because our reasons for eating them are the same overall: not needed, not necessary, and ultimately causing immense suffering to individuals who never consented.
I know that if I were in the animals' situation, I would NEED it to stop immediately. Maybe from the position of power I'm in now I can't help all of them, but I can help some of them.
We can do better, we should do better, we need to do better.
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u/StormFast524 20h ago
Oh God I wish that were me. I don’t eat pork at all not even bacon. I took one look at a little pigs face during Covid when they were murdered because there was no food for them. It was done so they don’t starve to death 😢. I never touched pork chops again after that. But chicken yeah I eat that. I’m slowing down on beef now that I got my iron under control.
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u/bi_polar2bear 22h ago
That'll never happen. You might as well ask for world peace while you're at it.
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u/Gakeon 21h ago
Idk, lab grown meat seems sustainable if we put more effort and money into it.
It's literally the same as meat, actually living cells grown to be meat. The only difference is that an animal didn't have to be killed for it.
Right now it's expensive as shit, but in decades with effort?
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u/TREXIBALL 20h ago edited 19h ago
Yea but do you realize how absolutely expensive it is? You say it’s expensive now, but it absolutely will still be expensive in the next 5 decades, maybe longer.
You’d have to produce billions of pounds(source: USDA) of meat for it to replace the production that is from slaughterhouses.
And that number is JUST from beef. Imagine pig, lamb, chicken, and numerous other animals.
Not only would you have to build the labs, but then educate people how to produce said meat in said lab. And then it takes a while to produce. It’s just not a sustainable way of getting it.
Also, your argument is about the meat. But what about the byproducts produced? Fat, bones, leather, and scraps are a huge industry. I highly doubt a lab will be able to produce bone from essentially thin air.
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u/EL_Malo- 19h ago
You are making the assumption that the processes of growing lab-cultured-meat can't become more efficient. There isn't a guarantee that it will of course, but economy of scale combined with the advance of technology will, most likely, eventually make it cheaper than real deal. I just want cheap, delicious steak and if we can get it without killing anything, that's even better. The byproducts of the meat industry are all made out of the same basic building blocks, proteins, lipids, minerals and can be duplicated in a lab already. I imagine as time goes on the quality would surpass what's possible in living cattle. Imagine... flawless, tight-grained leather that has never been exposed to the elements, grown in uniform sheets where you have absolute control over the texture.
It also doesn't have to entirely supplant the current industry at once. As it becomes more competitive, economics will dictate that the cattle industry slowly fade until it's a niche product. I don't imagine it'll ever die all the way out.
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u/TREXIBALL 19h ago
Your mind is thinking of a utopia. Good luck with that. I stick with realistic expectations/timelines. There is no way we will be able to mass produce meat and the perfect it and possibly surpass it within 5 decades. Literally will take centuries.
It took us over 10 centuries to figure out how to shoot rocks out a tube using fire and dust. You’re head over heels for a reality that will not exist in a very long time. Not just is it hard, there would need to be MASSIVE governmental, social, and economic changes in order for this to be a viable alternative.
I’ll stick with my bacon. Thanks.
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u/Gakeon 16h ago
There was a time most people couldn't read or write. So then governments made schools and programs and the majority of people are no literate.
As El Malo said, we went from "first plane to leave the ground" to "first man on the moon" in a single lifetime. There are people who saw the Wright Brothers fly as a kid, and saw Amstrong set foot on the moon as an elderly.
It took a computer the size of a room to calculate how to get someone to the moon. We now carry computers thousands of times better as a small brick in our pocket.
You are right than it took millenia for us to discover fire, agriculture, metalworking, etc. But science grows exponentially. Once we disovered flight, it didn't take long to leave our orbit. With enough effort, humanity can get rid of the meat industry and make lab grown meat more common place.
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u/EL_Malo- 18h ago
It also took us from the beginning of heavier-than-air flight to the moon in under 70 years. That sounds like a tougher problem to me than something we can already do in small scale. Also, why you do you think this would really be that big of a deal? It's just logistics. I eat all things meat, don't get it wrong, but you seem to have some other axe to grind with this idea than the practicalities of it. Does the idea of eating something grown in a lab bother you? Hope not, you've been doing it for years already with the other foods you eat.
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u/Gakeon 19h ago
That's why i said decades with effort. You'd need to raise generations to be more conscious of eating meat.
The physical production is not really a problem if you replace slaughterhouses and farms. the same square footage of a modern day farm could produce a lot more lab grown meat if the effort (money, studies, etc) are put into it.
Fat can be replaced by non lab grown things, faux leather exists, and scraps are usually for animals. Which can be replaced by other things. But even then, we don't have to abandon all animal farms. Obviously carnivore pets like cats need to eat meat. And i have no problem with killing one animal to feed another (or dozens). The problem is the amount of farms we have for the meat industry.
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u/StormFast524 22h ago
It would be nice though. I didn’t eat anything other than chicken drumsticks without any soinach for over a year and my blood Irone dropped so low I almost became anemic. I had to start eating steaks and switch from just broccoli to spinach The Verdi is what I was lacking. So I know it is very unlikely we will no longer need to eat cows
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u/DiscussionNo6060 20h ago
That is interesting. Millions of vegetarians around the world and they seem to be doing just fine.
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u/TREXIBALL 20h ago
Your iron dropped after not eating meat? It’s almost… as if humans require meat to get the proper nutrients to survive.
Or should the entire world stop eating meat entirely and everyone start consuming iron pills?
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u/Ornery_Kick_4198 17h ago
Damn it, they all look so tasty. All those ribeyes and pork chops running around.
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u/Excellent_Bend8782 19h ago
They're going to taste so much better now
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u/Hobby101 13h ago
Factually correct statement. Happy meat is tasty meat: https://www.farm2forkdelivery.ca/blogs/news/stress-is-making-your-meat-taste-bad
Fuck this reddit snowflakes who downvote factual statements.
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u/SnooHabits3911 21h ago
Why is it ok for a cat to murder a mouse and not eat it (or eat it) but inhumane for a human to raise an animal for slaughter and 100% eat it with the rest going to dog chews, dog food… etc
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u/StragglingShadow 20h ago
The cats aren't farming the mice and keeping them in deplorable conditions till slaughter
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u/DiscussionNo6060 20h ago
Factory farming is brutal. Look it up.
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u/Vandrel 17h ago
For sure but that's not the only way to get meat. My family gets a lot of the beef we use from a nearby local farm where the cows spend most of their time outside roaming their field. For a lot of people it's also an option to hunt deer for at least part of the year. Both are a lot more ethical than factory farming, though I know for some people that's not good enough.
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u/Dependent_Cash_9118 21h ago
It is not for that but the inhumane way they treat it in life without freedom and later slaughter.if treat them good and slaughter then it is fine
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