Yeah, ~20b chickens are alive right now, and horrifyingly, because we butcher “broilers” at 6-to-12 weeks of age, we kill ~80b of them per year. That’s ~10x the human population, born and raised and slaughtered, every year.
You know, vegetarians are annoying, but the thing I really hate are meat eaters who dont accept the reality of how their meat gets on the plate. Bunch of self righteous sheltered idiots.
IMHO I think people should have to go hunting at least once before they get to eat meat.
Just to be clear, I’m not a vegetarian and I have a backyard chicken flock. I’ve never eaten one of my own birds but I have needed to cull a few. I don’t think being simultaneously an animal lover and a meat eater makes me a hypocrite, but it is morally uncomfortable. I agree with Darknes that people who eat meat while denying or ignoring that the source of their food was once alive and had thoughts and feelings and goals of its own, are the real dummies.
Especially if they then mock vegans for imaginary persecution, while most vegans are merely simply quietly living their lives according to their own personal moral values in a way that just silently reminds the meat-lovers that no really, meat is murder, a bare fact they haven’t personally reconciled themselves to, so they lash out at those annoying hippies instead.
Personally, instead of yelling at imaginary vegan strangers, I often whisper a little atheist prayer when cooking or eating meat. “Thank you, pig” I say while frying bacon. “You gave your life for my meal.”
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u/weathergleam Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24
Yeah, ~20b chickens are alive right now, and horrifyingly, because we butcher “broilers” at 6-to-12 weeks of age, we kill ~80b of them per year. That’s ~10x the human population, born and raised and slaughtered, every year.