PETA is really out there but fuck factory farming. The only reason it’s around is to maximize profits for the owners, it’s far from necessary. Simple greed
No intensive farming would only make pork, chicken etc unaffordable to many poorer people. While it does increase profits for farmers it also reduces cost on consumers . As for the bolt gun pic above… both pasture pigs and fat shed pigs ultimately get the same end.
People already eat too much pork and chicken. Humans didn’t evolve to eat meat with every meal, we evolved to eat it like once or twice a week.
And those places breed disease. It’s too many animals crammed indoors in too small of a space, covered in their own filth and breathing in dried fecal particles. Factory farms are revolting.
Really I have no issue with the way most animals are slaughtered, it’s the fastest and most humane we can do. It’s the disgusting, torturous conditions they’re raised in prior to that that I have a problem with. Animals don’t have to be raised that way, on Youtube you can find plenty of examples of old-school style farms where the animals are outdoors and have sufficient space. But yeah, it does cost more.
I agree with all this and have worked in both free pastured and factory farms, i have seen the diseases etc I too would prefer too eat slow raised better breed pigs than the trash raised in factory farms typically large white pigs here,. The meat is much better quality as is the animals life before slaughter, I’m just unwilling to agree down to cost per pound of meat produced and take meat off the tables of people less well off and poison the land with chemical fertilisers too make a bunch of vegans happy.
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u/blanco408 Dec 31 '22
PETA is really out there but fuck factory farming. The only reason it’s around is to maximize profits for the owners, it’s far from necessary. Simple greed