The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
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The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
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#2I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
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#3Infotainment!
I know it's considered a failing of hn that commenters tend to attack the style rather than the content, but here the style is aggressively designed to provoke a particular reaction. I find that pretty insulting to the readers: "Don't bother to make up your own mind, let the sounds of dripping shit do it for you!"
It's the multimedia equivalent of Taibbi's expletive-laced purple prose.
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#4I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
Meat in the USA is made in the Farm Industrial Complex, sure. But so is all the mass market food; becoming a vegetarian doesn't change that. And I am a vegetarian.
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#5I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
There are farms that aren't like that. If you truly care about animal welfare make a point of only buying meat from these farms and be willing to pay the higher price.
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#6The real price are cancer, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, obesity and a dirty world.
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#7I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
Meat in the USA is made in the Farm Industrial Complex, sure. But so is all the mass market food; becoming a vegetarian doesn't change that. And I am a vegetarian.
Meat in a wold with 6-billion+ will come from the FIC, in the USA or elsewhere. Heard about the horsemeat swap in the EU, or the tainted (with industrial chemicals and or cardboard) meat in China?
It's not a US or EU or CN thing. It's a feeding 6-billion+ people on-the-cheap thing.
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#8Its hard for me to seriously consider changing my opinion from an article that shows its biases so clearly. You show me the worst case scenario, but what is the average case? Also, what are the alternatives to these techniques? If you don't like cattle prodding, what do you suggest instead? Not eating meat or drinking milk is not going to be an acceptable answer.
Edit: Not going to be acceptable as an alternative to animal cruelty to the American public. I think that is pretty objective in terms of what is actually feasible through legislation/cultural change.
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#10I think its unfortunate that opposition to torturing animals is often lumped in with opposition to merely killing animals.