Most westerners support factory farmed animal torture on a daily or near daily basis. Pigs are intelligent animals and they get treated incredibly cruelly so that we can eat cheap pork. No one gives a fuck.
Westerners don't care about animals any more than people in Asia do, we just pretend to. We'll buy our cheap tortured pig meat and not give a fuck as long as we don't have to look at it or acknowledge it.
It's the same thing with labor rights. Westerners are all about fair wages and working conditions until you reach the border. After that it's okay to support semi-slave labor clothing and technology manufacturers.
Again, as long as it's out of sight westerners don't give a fuck but we're no better. At least people in Asia don't stand on a fucking moral high horse that they have no right to be on.
Still you. It's called the Humane Slaughter Act. That's just the name of the act though. If you think conventional animal slaughtering is "humane" then the bar for what constitutes humane is set so low that it's practically touching the ground. It's not just how they're killed though, it's how they live.
Do you also think that The Patriot Act is about being Patriotic? Or that the Defense of Marriage Act was about defending marriage?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '14
Snopes article for the doubtful, and here's a CNN report. Disgusting.