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They realize that factory farming is inhumane. Meat eaters (and even some lacto-ovo-vegetarians) think this way because they mistakenly think that vegans eat an austere, bland diet consisting mostly of twigs and seeds with occasionally some plain tasteless tofu thrown in. Nothing could be further from the truth. Be prepared.
Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.
And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.
At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. Consequently, there is no good reason – no sufficiently weighty reason – to raise animals in inhumane conditions and kill them for food.
Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines.
It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. There is another reason that could be given for not eating meat in view of the present inhumane treatment of animals. 26) that in order to compensate for a declining birth rate in the U.S., milk production.
And it certainly doesn't follow that it is permissible to eat meat that comes from animals who were forced to endure horribly inhumane factory farm conditions and who were then slaughtered inhumanely. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms. Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. Running time: 12 Minutes.
Paragraph #4 starts with: "Undeniably, neither I nor anyone I know advocates or even tolerates the inhumane treatment of farm animals." The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system.
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