Herds,and Flocks for the most part. This is all done to keep the Retail Price from Collapsing. Fun fact,meat should be retailing at 50% or more less than what is happening. If the supply Demand Model was working,Gound Beef would be a Buck a pound,based on herd sizes as of today. Chicken should be a fifty cents or less based on what is happening. As for Hogs,once the China Orders are filled,whole Pork loins will be a Buck a pound,paid a buck and a half a week ago today.

We have starving people here, and around the globe, who need that protein, and it cost the environment a great deal to produce it.

I hate to see it go to waste.

-Laelth

I don't like pretend to have answers, but there must be a better way.

This has to be stopped.

what the fuck. Do it humanely if you have to do it....

Proving that ppl in this business are essentially heartless.

Humane slaughter and humane living conditions are the minimum.

This is completely irrational. As a society we are too glib about animal suffering. The animals lowest in our messed up hierarchy are no less sentient than cats or dogs. This should shock and disturb any civilized society. People are suffering too but that does not excuse torture on this scale.
A society with access to technology imho is on a very messed up track if we don't see something very wrong with cruelty like this inflicted on living organisms this large (chickens, pigs) and on this scale.

That doesn't bode well for humans either..sigh..

Well said!

It is very distressing and I wish we would take this seriously as a species...this will be viewed as one of our
signal failures wrt being a sane species....
Thanks for your posts. It is always good to see people who care about animal welfare.

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Remember this thread?

Differing Empathy in Vegetarians, Vegans, and Omnivores (a brain study)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11314556

I find it too depressing to do a search on..