one key reason to choose a Vegan lifestyle.

If only there was something that each of us could do to eliminate this sort of thing?

Oh, wait...

They had a whole pile-on back-slapping thread about it, followed by a group smack-down of end-civers.

Real good crowd here

And inhumane practices that are standard need to be criminalized.

One major problem is that all sorts of people have this idea that eating cheap meat is some sort of human right. If you ever raised any livestock (I do) you would learn fast how hard it is to raise an animal humanely. To kill it humanely requires real design of facility (thank you Temple Grandin, et al) , and well paid employees and no rushing allowed. This again raises the price of the meat.

So, meat becomes something for only those with lots of higher disposable incomes. Or for those willing to hunt it themselves or raise the animals themselves. And then you have a bunch of people whose idea of humane is not at all my idea, or perhaps your idea.

There is this effect of people in these industries just getting used to being cruel. And this is not minor. They have to or else they cannot produce the meat for anything other than super high prices. The market will not pay for it. And they begin to think of animals as units rather than as beings. Beings with feelings and relationships with each other.

I do eat meat. I eat the meat from the roosters that grow up and fight each other. I eat the meat of the ram lambs who knock me down or beat up the older wethers. I do take these animals to the humane slaughter facility. But, that does not mean that I don't feel bad about it. I think once we divorce ourselves from the fact that it is plain mean to kill another animal that all sorts of bad things become normalized.

Cheap meat is only that way because a whole group of people are payed very little to do this nasty work.

I hope in my lifetime that it is all made illegal and that people who make money doing these things go to jail for it. And that the workers who do this sort of work are more fairly compensated and allowed to work at the speed required to keep it humane.

We have a long way to go. But we have made progress.