Re:The Open (Animal) Sanctuary Project
by Spooky23 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:13AM
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People have an emotional and social attachment to food. It’s hard to have these conversations because people who care about different issues come from divergent and often partially misinformed places.
You can’t talk about animal welfare and practices without somebody chirping up about cow farts before they head home in their SUV. Many of the problems are really economic. Because the law allows a farmer in Nebraska to run a disgusting scaled feedlot, ground beef is $3/lb. The world would be a better place if we didn’t have the dysfunctional governance of the US Senate.
Instead, we have a 2023 environment with various concerned citizens screaming at each other for their pet thing.
Focusing on making regional and smaller scale farming viable is imo the best solution. You can’t make factory farming humane. Reducing consumption without changing production creates more demand - if you want less meat consumed, you have to produce it in a human and environmentally sustainable way. That means the $3 ground beef will be $8. (Which in turn lowers demand)
You can’t talk about animal welfare and practices without somebody chirping up about cow farts before they head home in their SUV. Many of the problems are really economic. Because the law allows a farmer in Nebraska to run a disgusting scaled feedlot, ground beef is $3/lb. The world would be a better place if we didn’t have the dysfunctional governance of the US Senate.
Instead, we have a 2023 environment with various concerned citizens screaming at each other for their pet thing.
Focusing on making regional and smaller scale farming viable is imo the best solution. You can’t make factory farming humane. Reducing consumption without changing production creates more demand - if you want less meat consumed, you have to produce it in a human and environmentally sustainable way. That means the $3 ground beef will be $8. (Which in turn lowers demand)