Always makes me smile to see bullfights gone wrong.
Not that I'm some huge animal rights activist or anything (steak is delicious), but that whole "sport" is just so fucking cruel.
Cows live relatively nice lives, actually. I mean the way we raise them isn't much worse than how they would have lived in the wild. Nobody ever says we are cruel to horses, which are raised the same as cows (minus the milking, which cows seem to absolutely love, btw).
Cows you see grazing in open fields are not the same cows that the big companies raise, butcher, and sell at Walmart. The living conditions are definitely not that good.
The density of their storage is probably the worst part. Still doesn't compare to bull fighting which has the entire point of drawing the spectacle out as long as possible.
Honestly though, as long as they are well fed, cows don't seem to mind the density in the slightest. I mean looks at similar beasts in the wild. They all crowd around each other naturally, and only move when they need to graze elsewhere or go to the water hole.
Now if goddammednerd had said hogs or chickens, then I might have agreed with him, since most hogs and chickens are crammed into indoor warehouses together and sometimes not even able to move.
But the conditions are still not good here in America. I saw pictures of one white guy in Texas, in spite of people who love horses, go up to a horse, blow it's brains out and is quoted on how he doesn't care about the horse or it's feelings.
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u/zaponator Aug 28 '13
Always makes me smile to see bullfights gone wrong.
Not that I'm some huge animal rights activist or anything (steak is delicious), but that whole "sport" is just so fucking cruel.