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- From: achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach)
- Subject: Re: Better to be slaughtered than never to have lived? Re: Meat eaters (LONG)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:08:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.172603.20369@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >In article <schuck.724481107@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >
- >"poultry, pigs or calves never see the light of day until they are taken to
- >the slaughterhouse... For three months at a stretch, pregnant sows are confined
- >to stalls scarcely larger than their bodies. To reduce stress and activity,
- >totally confined animals are kept in darkness except at feeding time...
- >"The new ways are solidly established. About 95 per cent of egg laying hens,
- >virtually all ... turkeys and half or more of beef cattle, dairy cows and pigs
- >are maintained in some type of factory system." (James B. Mason, "Industrial
- >Pigs, Mechanical Chickens: How Corporate Animal Factories Breed Poisoned Meat
- >and New Pollution", _Vegetarian_Times_, March 1980, cited in Victoria Moran,
- >_Compassion:_The_Ultimate_Ethic_).
- >
-
- Granted it's been a few years, but I've lived near/worked on farms most of
- my life. I have never witnessed the conditions described here. Dairy cattle
- I've seen live in pastures and come to the barn (of their own volition) for
- milking. Beef cattle roam ranges until they're rounded up for slaughter.
- Every hog farm I've seen had outdoor pens with sheds for them to get out of
- the weather.
-
- >
- >Better to have never lived than to live the kind of life led by livestock on
- >farms and then killed.
-
- Still another reason to prefer wild game to domestic meat.
-
- Jeff Achenbach
-