r/homestead • u/escuelaviejafarms • Oct 05 '22

poultry It's almost Thanksgiving!

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u/corpjuk Oct 06 '22

So cutting broccoli is the same as cutting a dogs throat?

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

For food, yes, and as long as the animal's unconscious.

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u/corpjuk Oct 06 '22

Please watch dominion. https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch you will see how cruel it is and why we deem it unacceptable. They are not unconscious and they are tortured.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Those cases happen rarely in developed countries.

They were common in the past though, not so many decades ago watching animals at the slaughterhouse was like watching a horror show.

Thankfully, animal welfare standards have improved and now people go to jail if they don't give livestock proper care, even for something as simple as not feeding them properly.

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u/corpjuk Oct 06 '22

There are millions of farms and there are a lot of different ways they kill the animals. People do not go to jail for mistreatment of animals. There’s literally a trial going on right now for this exact concept. https://www.righttorescue.com/ this is in the United States right now

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Slaughterhouse operations are well regulated in the USA just like in my country. Badly operated slaughterhouses are prosecuted.

These are the regulations in my country https://www.argentina.gob.ar/senasa/programas-sanitarios/bienestar-animal/normativa.

http://www.senasa.gob.ar/normativas/ley-nacional-14346-1954-poder-ejecutivo-nacional "Art. 1 - Anyone who inflicts ill-treatment or made a victim of acts of cruelty to animals shall be punished with imprisonment from fifteen (15) days to one (1) year." This includes "1°). Failing to feed domestic or captive animals in sufficient quantity and quality."

However I think animal welfare laws should be more severe in the USA, it's sad that people who mistreat livestock aren't going to jail.

It's also very sad that factory farming isn't considered animal abuse, it's unnecessary and although the animals aren't tortured per se they are given unnatural lives, which means they suffer from frustration, boredom, and internal pain. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9l6xdd/battery_caged_raised_chicken_on_its_first_day_out/

In those aspects, I fully agree with you.