• teft
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    867 months ago

    Well the dog farmers hang, burn, and beat the shit out of the dogs before they kill them because they believe the fear and adrenaline improves the taste and makes them more tender…so yes I’d say it’s worse.

    • Orvorn
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      477 months ago

      Pigs, cows, and chickens also experience incredible suffering in factory farms. The whole industry is rotted.

      • chaogomu
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        137 months ago

        It is, but most of the actual killing in like 90% of the world is done as fast and cleanly as possible. If only to keep the process as efficient as possible.

        Fun fact, if you want ethically killed meat (if such a thing can exist), the best option is actually Kosher meat. There are religious laws and such, and the easiest way to comply with them is a sort of guillotine. It’s an instant death.

        The animals of also generally better treated than most factory farm setups.

        • @Floey@lemm.ee
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          77 months ago

          A 90% figure that is pulled out of your ass sounds a lot less compelling when billions of animals are slaughtered for food each year. How many is too many? And the killing isn’t even the worst part.

        • @interceder270@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          What about their living conditions?

          “Yeah, they spent their entire lives packed like sardines sitting in their own shit because they’re too fat to stand and never see the light of day. But at least they were killed humanely!”

          The cognitive dissonance among meat-eaters is worse than that of conservatives. You people are a shining example of how ‘rational’ thinkers will become irrational at the drop of a hat if that’s what their peers are doing.

          Autonomy just isn’t a valuable trait these days. We pride ourselves on being stupid and ignorant if that’s what makes us fit in. Then we get mad at anyone who calls it out, lol. Useful idiots are the norm.

          • @Pulsar@lemmy.world
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            97 months ago

            The way you communicate your point is as important and the message itself. I stopped eating meat myself many years ago and really despise the meat industry, but unless we stop attacking meat eater and find a better way to communicate our ethical, environmental and health concerns we will not be able to change anybody’s behavior.

            • @interceder270@lemmy.world
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              -57 months ago

              but unless we stop attacking meat eater and find a better way to communicate our ethical, environmental and health concerns we will not be able to change anybody’s behavior.

              Sorry, people don’t want to change unless they have to. My goal also isn’t to get people to change. Simply exposing them to the knowledge that they’re delusional hypocrites is enough for me.

              Trying to change people is usually an act in futility. You’ll understand when you’re older.

      • Overzeetop
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        67 months ago

        It’s a weird dynamic. I feel no remorse eating pork or beef. I know the process, I raised farm animals as a kid. BUT, I know someone working on genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants and that makes me somehow uneasy.

    • Quokka
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      Frankly that sounds like the sort of bullshit I’d hear from Greenpeace.

      Even if that were true, have you seen say a chicken farm? Workers will cruelly abuse the ever living shit out of these animals for no reason.

      I wouldn’t say it’s worse than…

      The chickens at the farm were filmed being kicked, thrown to the ground and having their necks broken for fun.

      “I hate it when their heads come off,” one female worker says in a clip.

      “Yeah, it feels good, look,” a male worker replies.

      “Oh, you’re cruel,” the woman say as a chicken writhes on the ground. The other workers can be heard laughing as they all watch the hen

      https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/secret-video-reveals-horrific-abuse-of-hens-inside-victorian-egg-farm/news-story/dd429e36eb2e210fc702c78663f6961d?amp

      • teft
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        177 months ago

        I was stationed in South Korea and saw them with my own eyeballs but you can believe whatever you like.

          • teft
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            37 months ago

            I grew up in farmland. I’ve seen numerous animals killed. We didn’t beat our goats before we killed them. Same with our chickens.