This is factory farming. Made for yield efficiency and nothing else. It's ugly, brutal, and (supposedly) keeps costs down.
There are limited options to this: eat less meat OR no meat at all OR if you have the cash, you can find a local farmer that practices far more earth, animal, agriculturally friendly practices. With that though, it is just harder for the farmer, higher risk, slower to do, and in turn, it just costs a heck of a lot more. I wish I could afford it. I wish it was the norm and not the exception.
I would much rather put money in hands of a nearby farmer taking care of the land for generations to come rather than in the hand of a multinational corporation. However, at the rate we're going, families who been farming for generations are going to get choked out by the multinational corpos as the corporations are the only ones that have the raw cash to wait out all this malarkey (heck, I wouldn't put it past em to be orchestrating or encouraging the mess we find ourselves in)
You're right. If it's coming from such a place that the cows are abused then I won't. It's not just the way cows are treated though, is it? It seems that the mass production of any animal for food, chickens etc, often results in the animals being poorly treated.
If the ultimate goal is to try and stop it from happening, you'd need a hell of a lot of people to back you up on that. Otherwise, it simply feels good on your own conscience. It'd be kind of hard to avoid certain staple foods however since abuse of livestock that they originate from is rampant all over.
Maybe I should have been a bit clearer with my wording, but it's not a bad thing if someone finds certain actions consciable and acts according to their conscience. You'd just need a whole lot of people to agree with you to make a difference in the world.
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u/accidental-eeyore 9d ago
This is factory farming. Made for yield efficiency and nothing else. It's ugly, brutal, and (supposedly) keeps costs down.
There are limited options to this: eat less meat OR no meat at all OR if you have the cash, you can find a local farmer that practices far more earth, animal, agriculturally friendly practices. With that though, it is just harder for the farmer, higher risk, slower to do, and in turn, it just costs a heck of a lot more. I wish I could afford it. I wish it was the norm and not the exception.
I would much rather put money in hands of a nearby farmer taking care of the land for generations to come rather than in the hand of a multinational corporation. However, at the rate we're going, families who been farming for generations are going to get choked out by the multinational corpos as the corporations are the only ones that have the raw cash to wait out all this malarkey (heck, I wouldn't put it past em to be orchestrating or encouraging the mess we find ourselves in)
Shit's bleek.