It’s the same as people that say you should eat “humane, ethical” meat from small, local farms.
But if every single person did that it would be impossible for us to eat the amount of meat that we eat now so everyone would have to eat less anyway.
They conveniently forget that part. There’s a reason slaughterhouses and factory farms exist the way to they do. It’s not because people like to torture animals, it’s because YOU like to eat them 3 times day. It’s business. Factory farms and high speed slaughter exist to serve customers and make money.
If we wanted all the animals to have more space AND still eat the amount of animal products we eat now, we’d need at least one more planet Earth. Animal agriculture already takes up a huge amount of land, uses more crops, water, and energy than plant foods to produce, and is in part responsible for deforestation, habitat loss, Amazon rainforest destruction, ocean acidification leading to dead zones, pollution, and species extinction.
Even if you really believe there’s a right way to needlessly kill a sentient being for your own pleasure, you’d still have to eat animal products less if you only ate “humane” products. I would love to see anyone ACTUALLY do this. If you only ever ate animal products sourced from local farms, this means dairy, eggs, honey, gelatin, everything. That means you can’t buy prepackaged items if you don’t know where the ingredients are sourced.
Ironically, even if you’re super rich it’d STILL be easier to be vegan than to do that. But please, if you think it’s possible I challenge you to try it. Align your actions with your values.
If you ever tell anyone that killing animals needlessly for pleasure is morally ok because the animal had a nice life and a quick death, then prove it, and ONLY eat animal products procured that way. If that’s the only right way to do it, then buying them through any other method is immoral. Practice what you preach. We do.
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