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I think its a matter of education how much you really care and what you do at the end. Because the morals of every human on earth are different there will never be a consent to this matter. Mistreating animals is wrong. Factory Farming is mistreatment for animals AND for humans, there are so many chemicals and drugs used to keep the animals alive and make them grow faster and bigger that no one can tell me that we aren't affected at all. Thats only my two cents for ppl that think that "only animals" are effected and eg. world hunger or child labor should be a more important topic because it involves humans. If I think that my baby niece gets to eat such contaminated meat, it makes my simply sick.
However I for my part to care about the animals. Like QuasarX I also didn't eat meat for a while. Now I eat meat again but much less than in the past. Factory Farming wouldn't be necessary if we wouldn't be so wasteful with the resources we have.
Edit: I'm on an iPod and too lazy to scroll down. You canprodyce more meat in a factory farm than you can produce corn on the same amount of area. Now, corn is just as genetically modified as meat. Hell it's in everything we eat. High fructose corn syrup is just as unhealthy as all this meat everybody's eating, and sorry no, meat is not a luxury, man does not live on bread alone. We don't just eat meat for fun, it's part of a consistent and regulated diet. Not everyone had to be vegetarian and eat healthily because cows are suffering.
Edit2: @the-burden You're not the poorest person in the world. In fact, you're probably in the top 20%. So you can't argue about being poor.
Here's my 2 cents. You come up with a way (and please don't say that it isn't your job,) to feed over 6 billion people, keep things affordable, and keep animals happy, while turning a profit. Then we can bring morals into this. You realise that half the world suffers from malnutrition and yet you want to make it so that there is less meat to go around? Bad distribution accounts for a lot of it, but ad it stands the world hardly produces enough to feed the masses.
Without Factory Farming, food production would drop heavily. No more feeding corn to cows means that conglomerates will no longer have cheap food alternatives and will be forced to raise prices. Almost all arable land in the US is being used, if you can conjure an entire country of pasture then be my guest. Cost of maintenance skyrockets, food production is lowered so you can make sure some poor dumb cow has a good life.
Aside from the fact that the average consumer really does not give a damn, what do you think food conglomerates produce food for us for? Because they're nice people? They do it for money, just like any other business. You could say that that is their primary objective and that keeping the food nice and good is merely a way to satisfy customers. Even if we were aware of it and did think of it, it's the hardest thing in the world to toss over conglomerates that control all the food in Th USA.
Sure, it's possible to get them to enforce better health conditions, butbto revamp the whole Factory Farm idea is plain stupid. Don't throw out general terms in an attempt to garner sympathy because without this Factory Farm stuff we wouldn't even have a surplus in first world countries, let alone being able to line the shelves of others.
Last edited by Dafat-MKII at 12:39 pm, Feb 21 2011
