These days we’re safely insulated from the horrors of our own decisions. If you want a hamburger, you go to McDonald’s. You never see the cow’s mother being forcibly impregnated with a farmer’s hand up her vagina. You never see the cow growing up in an overcrowded stable, covered in shit and filth, fed high fructose corn syrup and growth hormones from a dirty trough. You never see the slaughterhouse workers slitting the throat of dozens of cows per minute, with no time to stun half of them properly before killing them. You don’t see the nightmares of the slaughterhouse workers, or the delusions they suffer of the dead cows’ lifeless eyes staring back at them, and you don’t see them go home and beat their wives and get addicted to alcohol as they begin to accept that violence is an ordinary part of life. You just get your greasy hamburger with the wrong toppings and scarf it down in your car, scrolling memes on your phone to distract yourself from the reality of your meal. Yum!
I grew up next to a cow farm as in my house bordered it’s pastures, saw cows give birth, artificial insemination, the pasture conditions, etc. All was the exact opposite of what you described, gassy pasture, plenty of room and all the cow farms in the area are like that. Now don’t get me wrong these are a group of individual farmers that I’m describing, and mass production farms are horrendous but not all cow farms are the hellish conditions you describe.
Just because there hasn’t been growth in one area it doesn’t mean there hasn’t been growth in another.
Animal cruelty still exists in abundance, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t gotten better in some aspects.
Progress is good, and you are right to be so passionate about having more of it, but it’s good to make sure you can also see the positives or it will affect our own mental health. If we are gonna continue to make progress, we need to be healthy minded.
Go with a camera to a local meat farm and show us how we have grown.
I’m not trying to be a jackass I’m just trying to understand, when you ask for pictures of a local farm do you mean like pastures? I can totally take some pictures of cow pastures, I pass like 6 on the way to work. I don’t care if it’s illegal, stupid law anyway, but I can totally show you pictures of the exact types of farms I’m talking about.
The reason I made my original comment was to highlight that not all farms are this. To claim otherwise is a falsehood. I think the cause is very noble and I have seen/fully understand there are horrific conditions that go on in some farms. If you however describe a narrative that isn’t true and act like it is, you will only turn people away not draw them in. Food for thought
They’re talking about ag-gag laws. When people take pictures of the poor conditions on farms and it causes public outrage, the farm tends to lose business so some states have passed laws to protect the farmers.
reading these comics it seems animal cruelty was more common back then. it is nice to see that we have grown as a society
These days we’re safely insulated from the horrors of our own decisions. If you want a hamburger, you go to McDonald’s. You never see the cow’s mother being forcibly impregnated with a farmer’s hand up her vagina. You never see the cow growing up in an overcrowded stable, covered in shit and filth, fed high fructose corn syrup and growth hormones from a dirty trough. You never see the slaughterhouse workers slitting the throat of dozens of cows per minute, with no time to stun half of them properly before killing them. You don’t see the nightmares of the slaughterhouse workers, or the delusions they suffer of the dead cows’ lifeless eyes staring back at them, and you don’t see them go home and beat their wives and get addicted to alcohol as they begin to accept that violence is an ordinary part of life. You just get your greasy hamburger with the wrong toppings and scarf it down in your car, scrolling memes on your phone to distract yourself from the reality of your meal. Yum!
I grew up next to a cow farm as in my house bordered it’s pastures, saw cows give birth, artificial insemination, the pasture conditions, etc. All was the exact opposite of what you described, gassy pasture, plenty of room and all the cow farms in the area are like that. Now don’t get me wrong these are a group of individual farmers that I’m describing, and mass production farms are horrendous but not all cow farms are the hellish conditions you describe.
Go with a camera to a local meat farm then and show us how we have grown.
Oh wait, you can’t since that’s illegal.
Just because there hasn’t been growth in one area it doesn’t mean there hasn’t been growth in another.
Animal cruelty still exists in abundance, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t gotten better in some aspects.
Progress is good, and you are right to be so passionate about having more of it, but it’s good to make sure you can also see the positives or it will affect our own mental health. If we are gonna continue to make progress, we need to be healthy minded.
I’m not trying to be a jackass I’m just trying to understand, when you ask for pictures of a local farm do you mean like pastures? I can totally take some pictures of cow pastures, I pass like 6 on the way to work. I don’t care if it’s illegal, stupid law anyway, but I can totally show you pictures of the exact types of farms I’m talking about.
The reason I made my original comment was to highlight that not all farms are this. To claim otherwise is a falsehood. I think the cause is very noble and I have seen/fully understand there are horrific conditions that go on in some farms. If you however describe a narrative that isn’t true and act like it is, you will only turn people away not draw them in. Food for thought
They’re talking about ag-gag laws. When people take pictures of the poor conditions on farms and it causes public outrage, the farm tends to lose business so some states have passed laws to protect the farmers.