TopasBut I love death
I eat meat AND vegetables
TheUniqueOneMaybe don’t contribute to the commodification of sentient beings.
awsamationNah.
Steak is delicious, and at the end of the day it's only a cow.
A cow with thoughts of its own, with a family that wants to live as much as you do.
I’ve raised quite a few farm animals. They don’t have an urge to live. My goodness do they take every chance to get themselves killed…
Except they blatantly do. Sorry your anecdotal experience doesn’t add up with the scientific evidence it must be wrong.
Is it still anecdotal if literally any farmer will tell you the same? Because they will.
A surprisingly large amount of effort goes into trying to keep the livestock from hurting themselves or getting themselves killed. That's inevitable when essentially turn off natural selection, they end up losing any sense of self preservation. And why not, they do have multiple humans who's entire career centers on keeping them alive until they're ready for slaughter.
Are they in danger from hurting themself because they are stressed at their confinement maybe? They are slaughter at barely a fraction of their natural lifespan.
They live more comfortably than you do. Food and water freely available, plenty of space, other animals to socialize. No worries or responsibilities, not even a real concept of the outside world. The farm is all they've ever known, and it's all they ever need to know.
Until you kill them decades before their natural lifespans. Or until you rape them and steal their children.
ImFresh3xDude, cows live in giant fields grazing on beautiful rolling hillsides.
Factory farming is widespread and constitutes the overwhelming majority in output of the dairy and meat industry. Not that cows are there for you to use anyway.