| Not to detract from your point but Nature itself is brutal.
There's no mercy kill when a predator catch a prey. Case in point : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQmJ7UUNFQ
>> Warning, this is not for the faint of heart. << I've worked in a slaughterhouse, doing the night shift cleaning up the mess before a new day begins, I know what's it's like. Overcrowded boxes full of chicken shitting themselves, getting hanged by their legs on a factory line before getting their throat sliced by a fast spinning blade. Not a pretty sight for sure and a sad way to go. It's very unfortunate how the mass consumption of meat creates terrible living conditions for the various animals we breed for that purpose.
But if we measure the scale of suffering, I think we're doing a bit better than nature. And yes, by going vegan you do not contribute to that, I get it. I have huge amount of respect for people that live by their moral standards and stick to it.
Yet this doesn't mean that the wilderness is some Disney fantasy and yes, for all intent and purpose, most animals out there in the wild are bound to have a gruesome end. I'm not implying that we're doing animals a favour by sending them to a slaughterhouse, simply that this is the natural order of things.
If you feel strongly about that and choose to not consume meat and such, great.
As for me, despite what I've seen, there's nothing wrong with eating meat. The only thing I wish is a more humane breeding, and I'm happy to pay more for that. I'm aware that it's slightly hypocritical because would there be an alien specie doing the same to us, I'd probably would have a different perspective on that. As it stands, I enjoy being an apex predator. May it last forever. |