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Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by FeistySkink on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:55AM (#35151561)
People are being murdered in offices by the billion?
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by thebetatester on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:10AM (#35151806)
No, in many cases it's a much slower agonizing death. But you might get a gold watch at the end!
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by ackbar03 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:13AM (#35152792)
That's what they told those chicken too
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by dathos on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:43AM (#35153360)
You'll have to look up agonizing, I bet going through a machine with the sounds of your companions dying all around you is a lot more agonizing than choosing an unhappy life and living with those consequences
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by bbarnett on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:13PM (#35153849)
I would agree, but I've seen cattle being offloaded into an abattoir. A few trucks in a parking lot, one unloading into a corral, with a bridge/ramp headed into the building.

I've seen startled cattle, and I've seen frightened cattle. None of these were. Yet inside, the sound of dying cattle could be heard, with a "Bam!" from the gun used to euthanize by nail-to-the-brain, and a "thud' of the cattle falling afterwards.

I presumed, at the time, that the lack of concern was due to a lack of panicked sounds. The cattle simply died instantly, without exhibiting any pain response, or noise, first.

So no.. at least for cattle, it seems to be without the experience you describe.

Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by dathos on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @03:39PM (#35157215)
I bet if we had cow psychologists they might diagnose them with shock, living near pig farms my experience is a lot different. The stress of transportation, the smell of dead animals, these are so unnatural and without any possible escape what would you do?
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by lockhouse on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:03AM (#35152632)
Murder is a bit hyperbolic isn’t it?

These animals have been raised solely with the purpose of being eaten. They would have never come in to existence otherwise, and their death is happening to feed people.

Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by merry_flame on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:40PM (#35159235)
Your reasoning here is wrong I don't even know where to start... The fact that Agent A brings into existence Agent B gives them the right to dispose of Agent B in any way they want? When does that ever make sense?
Re:Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms by lockhouse on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:39PM (#35160146)
Would you prefer these domestic animals just get set free in the wild to be eaten by predators, starve to death, or die of preventable diseases? They have already been born, they can feed people, and they will most likely live a much less humane life in the wild.

Sure, hypothetically some of them could become pets, but that would be a tiny minority of them.