Not criticizing. Asking an honest question. You'd rather cows only exist in zoos? No more meat cattle. No more milk cows. No more pigs. No more chickens.
I don't get how that works. I fully support your right to choose how you eat. But if we have no need for a domesticated animal, they cease to exist.
We can milk cows and harvest eggs from chickens without being the total monsters that we are about it. Have you looked into how many of those animals live their lives? It’s horrific.
Cows give milk 300 days after calving. They peak about 50 days after calving and taper off. If we don't use the males except a couple for breeding, what will we do with thousands of male calves? Chickens are the same.
And I know the vid you posted gets trotted out every once in a while, but in reality processors want the animal super calm so adrenaline doesn't spoil the meat. Only muslim nations like to bleed-out animals. My husband's grandfather owned a dairy. They rarely killed an animal, but owning a large animal means being responsible for killing it. Even now when a favorite beloved horse gets old and lame, we shoot it in the head, just like the bolt-gun we use for cattle.
But I understand that people live different lives. And I fully respect your right to live your life as you see fit. But I don't understand what the end goal would be if no one wanted meat. A world without cows or chickens or pigs seems worse to me.
Not criticizing. Asking an honest question. You'd rather cows only exist in zoos? No more meat cattle. No more milk cows. No more pigs. No more chickens.
I don't get how that works. I fully support your right to choose how you eat. But if we have no need for a domesticated animal, they cease to exist.
We can milk cows and harvest eggs from chickens without being the total monsters that we are about it. Have you looked into how many of those animals live their lives? It’s horrific.
Cows give milk 300 days after calving. They peak about 50 days after calving and taper off. If we don't use the males except a couple for breeding, what will we do with thousands of male calves? Chickens are the same.
And I know the vid you posted gets trotted out every once in a while, but in reality processors want the animal super calm so adrenaline doesn't spoil the meat. Only muslim nations like to bleed-out animals. My husband's grandfather owned a dairy. They rarely killed an animal, but owning a large animal means being responsible for killing it. Even now when a favorite beloved horse gets old and lame, we shoot it in the head, just like the bolt-gun we use for cattle.
But I understand that people live different lives. And I fully respect your right to live your life as you see fit. But I don't understand what the end goal would be if no one wanted meat. A world without cows or chickens or pigs seems worse to me.