I love when my food had a happy existence before it gets to me. If none of us ate beef, would this farmer and rancher Derek Klingenberg have bothered to husband these cattle, raise them from calves, then serenade and send them to market? Would they ever have been born, much less serenaded, much less made it Rancho Bravo?
I don't eat it myself but I have no problem with people eating beef, provided they're willing to pay the true cost.
Without the massive subsidies the beef industry currently enjoys that T-bone would $50 at the store. That price is only going to go up as the nationwide drought becomes the new normal.
@ 8, I have a militant vegan friend who raku would just love. (Well, I assume - she's white, straight, and from a wealthy background. Three strikes against?) Anyway, she recently posted something about how the more aware you become, the more insane you appear to others. I wonder if raku subscribes to this philosophy.
@ raku, I derive no pleasure from killing animals, but I understand that it is the place of cattle, sheep, and poultry in the life cycle. The solution isn't to unfairly demonify humans for eating as we should. It's in removing the profit motove from food production, which is the source of all perversities that cause real animal suffering, environmental destruction, and at the same time make us overfed.
You like killing things and wrecking the planet for your pleasure.
@5 Uh. Hate to break it to you, but so do you.
Or is this device you're communicating from use some as yet unheard of non-mined non-strategic mineral for it's processors, access the internet via telepathy, and is powered by your own personal pedal turbine?
Is the city you live in powered by wizards, have magic roads in the sky, and is invisible to wildlife? Is the vegetable matter you eat all foraged in the woods by hand?
You willingly participate in technological society for your pleasure. Your very existence — here and now — is wrecking the planet for your pleasure.
@ raku - My precious, there is no harm in wishing for well raised livestock over factory farmed animals. Beef that isn't terrified before they electrocute it tastes better. I am all for proper husbandry, and support my local farmer when it comes to buying meat.
Or would you prefer that we go the Tyson route for all meats?
Price of Porterhouse and Rib Steak dropped by $4/lb at my favorite butcher...so I stocked up!
Without the massive subsidies the beef industry currently enjoys that T-bone would $50 at the store. That price is only going to go up as the nationwide drought becomes the new normal.
If you like beef, just own it. You like killing things and wrecking the planet for your pleasure. There's no other justification.
@ raku, I derive no pleasure from killing animals, but I understand that it is the place of cattle, sheep, and poultry in the life cycle. The solution isn't to unfairly demonify humans for eating as we should. It's in removing the profit motove from food production, which is the source of all perversities that cause real animal suffering, environmental destruction, and at the same time make us overfed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJ…
If it makes you feel any better, at least veal aren't killed, they usually die of loneliness.
@5 Uh. Hate to break it to you, but so do you.
Or is this device you're communicating from use some as yet unheard of non-mined non-strategic mineral for it's processors, access the internet via telepathy, and is powered by your own personal pedal turbine?
Is the city you live in powered by wizards, have magic roads in the sky, and is invisible to wildlife? Is the vegetable matter you eat all foraged in the woods by hand?
You willingly participate in technological society for your pleasure. Your very existence — here and now — is wrecking the planet for your pleasure.
So shut the fuck up.
Btw, do you eat any soy products? Do you ever take pleasure from any soy based food?
(Sorry, somebody had to say it!)
Or would you prefer that we go the Tyson route for all meats?
@15: This.
Or any other video of mammals with brains acting like they have brains.