Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said that approximately 1.6 million laying hens were destroyed after the infection was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
I talk about how human population is a fundamental problem and get pushback from people saying we can make enough food, everyone needs to be vegan and we all live in cities with buses etc. But this ignores many problems, and this is a perfect example.
It’s impossible to feed 8 billion people without everyone going vegan (which simply isn’t going to happen) or industrial agriculture treating animals like objects.
While I believe I have the right as a living being that nature evolved into an omnivore to take the life of another conscious being for food, I don’t believe we as a society are entitled to abuse another species of conscious beings and waste their lives as will certainly end up being done here to cull the flock.
I’m still an omnivore, but am at least 50-60% vegetarian or vegan. I used to eat meat every day, but now it’s about once a week, although I do often have eggs or milk on a daily basis. It’s not from a philosophical point of view, but instead just simply that I don’t need to eat meat very often. I love tofu, beans, potatoes, and all these other vegetables (a lot of which I grow myself in my garden) using compost from our pile. It’s not hard to do, and if you work on it daily for 20 minutes at a time, it’s easy to keep up with.
I talk about how human population is a fundamental problem and get pushback from people saying we can make enough food, everyone needs to be vegan and we all live in cities with buses etc. But this ignores many problems, and this is a perfect example.
It’s impossible to feed 8 billion people without everyone going vegan (which simply isn’t going to happen) or industrial agriculture treating animals like objects.
While I believe I have the right as a living being that nature evolved into an omnivore to take the life of another conscious being for food, I don’t believe we as a society are entitled to abuse another species of conscious beings and waste their lives as will certainly end up being done here to cull the flock.
Well said. Factory farming is a crime against nature.
I’m still an omnivore, but am at least 50-60% vegetarian or vegan. I used to eat meat every day, but now it’s about once a week, although I do often have eggs or milk on a daily basis. It’s not from a philosophical point of view, but instead just simply that I don’t need to eat meat very often. I love tofu, beans, potatoes, and all these other vegetables (a lot of which I grow myself in my garden) using compost from our pile. It’s not hard to do, and if you work on it daily for 20 minutes at a time, it’s easy to keep up with.
There’s so much delicious vegetarian and vegan food.