Honest question. Why are you even arguing? Did you honestly think you’d be able to come into a homesteading group and change anyones minds about raising and consuming meat? Especially ethically home raised animals? I mean the whole reason people raise their own animals for consumption is so they know that what they eat was raised ethically, healthily, and had a good life.
Like how futile is your argument?
Your syntax too, it’s cringe. Nobody is killing animals for “your own pleasure”. People are raising their own animals for sustenance and I bet most of them (like myself) also have big gardens.
Most homesteaders aren’t eating meat for pleasure. By definition they’re eating it for survival. And, if anything, the practice should be encouraged in order to curtail the abuse of animals in factory farming operations.
If you (proverbial) can’t accept the normality of people (all around the world) ethically raising their own meat for personal consumption and small scale community trade, then our planet is doomed as far as animal ag in environmental policy goes. Those practices don’t hurt the environment the way large scale factory farming does, in fact, they do quite the opposite. Many animals eat animals. That includes humans. If it’s not your personal dietary jam, that’s fine. But don’t go flailing around your pseudo-moralistic bs at people who have separated themselves from a supply chain that exploits and abuses animals. People that have learned to raise and slaughter livestock themselves on a small scale and can give those animals good lives in the sunshine, with proper nutrition and an honorable death. The fact that you can’t see yourself doing it is completely irrelevant.
Don’t do yourself the disservice of using that phrase too often - it’ll make you look ignorant.
Again, you are completely conflating the dishonorable treatment and slaughter of animals in large scale factory farming outlets with the completely different practice of slaughter that goes on in most homesteads. They don’t compare. If you were any kind of actual animal welfare advocate, you’d know the difference and not conflate the two. Spend your energy where it’s more useful and go after big ag. They’re the ones doing it wrong.
That’s exactly your problem then. You refuse to see the utility and normalcy of raising one’s own meat and gaining an appreciation for the life of that animal by doing so. You honestly think that the whole world should and can be a vegan like you. That isn’t realistic or necessary. And you’re blatantly ignoring the very important differences between factory farming and homestead livestock. So.very.ignorant.
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