For many this topic of good food bad food is also tied into
the treatment of the animal when it is slaughtered. The “inhumane” process it
goes through. Not being allowed to be free before they are killed or any of the
other methods that they go through while being processed. Before I say anything
about my opinion on the matter, I must make one point clear. Whether or not the
procedures are moral or humane is none of my concern. It may be for others but I
completely disregard it. The name of the game is efficiency. To supply the
growing population with the appropriate food supply is no easy task. Whatever
methods must be used for efficiency should; the one thing they should not
sacrifice for efficiency however is the health of the consumer. Now as to
whether the procedures they go through are unhealthy for us I think some of
them are. Well at least allowing the animal to sit in their own dung seems
completely unhealthy for us. There should be a way to dispose of their excess
material as to not contaminate the meat. This is an irresponsible decision by
the corporations. They put the health of the consumer at risk because they do
not wish to invest in finding cleaner methods of mass production. This is
should not be allowed. And the inspectors who only come once in a blue moon are
a joke. There are many aspects of the food industry that are to be judged, yet
the morality of it regarding animals should not be taken into matter.
Efficiency and the sanitation I find are much more important.
In my head, I feel that I do think as you do, but I know that when it comes down to it, killing an animal the way they do in slaughterhouses would be extremely difficult for me. Although I try not to worry about the morality of killing an animal, it always pops into my head when discussing this. Animals in the wild may be killed all the time, but the aren't raised in such harsh conditions and then slaughtered so horrifically afterwards. So in my opinion we should be concerned with not only the efficiency and sanitation, but also the morality.
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