“10/01/2008, 11:19am EST”
There is a “humane meat” movement afoot, wherein adherents believe something to the effect that “they are doing meat right” by eating locally raised, grass-fed, non-factory farmed meat. Sure, this practice is better for the animals and the planet than the industrial norm.
But is it right? The above image (connected to a NY Times article about “humane” meats and DIY butchering) is a perfect illustration of the common link between factory farms and so-called “humane” farms: the operating definition of non-human creatures as commodities. Both factory farms and “humane” ones raise fellow animals, then kill them, then sell the bodies and body parts of those they slaughter — all in the name of making some cash.
Is this kind of farming humane? Seeing the way humans behave, then perhaps it is. But is it right? Not a chance.
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