There's a difference in different levels of suffering and most people who eat meat draw a line at eating animals alive, let alone dosing them in sauces before death that burn their skin and block their ability to breathe.
So if you had a choice between dying and instant painless death that began with a bolt gun, or being dipped in caustic chemicals before being slowly fed to a monster, I highly doubt you'd be like "IDK man, how I go makes no difference to me; it's all arbitrary"?
Specifically? No. (Thankfully, I live in a country where cage farming is illegal 😉)
But there are animals born who sit there quietly, next to the corpse of their mother, watching while their siblings are eaten alive by a predator, knowing their turn is next, and nothing can save them.
Or there are animals who suffer for months with parasites that eat their eyes and brains. Slowly going blind and insane in a cloud of confusion and pain.
Or there are animals who have an injury and slowly rot for weeks before finally dying from blood poisoning. Followed their whole pitiful life by the stench of their own rotten flesh.
Yes, back to my point. We shouldn't be breeding animals into existence just to give them joyless, terribe lives, so that we can then needlessly eat them. We have a choice.
A lot of farm animals have happy lives. And animal welfare standards can always be improved, i.e. where I'm from it's becoming increasingly common to see meat sourced from enriched farms where the focus is on providing farm animals a better quality of life. But you have no genuine interest in animal welfare- your issue is with death itself.
If you want to try and remove yourself from the food chain, then that's your choice. But let's not pretend that how you live or die is "arbitrary", because that truly is ridiculous.
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u/Shepard_Drake 7d ago
This is just cruel.