The animals have to die sometime, so whats wrong with eating them? Everyone has to die sometime, but that has never justified causing them suffering before that time or taking their lives.
Don’t farmers treat their animals well so that they’ll produce more milk or eggs? That may have been true in the past, but today, animals on factory farms gain weight, lay eggs, or produce milk not because they are well cared for, comfortable, and content but because they are subjected to medications, hormone treatments, genetic manipulation, and management techniques. Nowadays, animals raised for food are slaughtered when they are extremely young, usually before disease decimates them although diseases are rampant on factory farms, and in fact, mortality rates are factored into business costs. Factory farmers raise such huge numbers of animals for food and the demand for cheap meat is so high that it is less expensive for them to absorb losses than it is for them to provide humane conditions for animals. If everyone only ate vegetables and grains, would there be enough to eat? Yes! In fact, we feed so much grain to animals to fatten them up for consumption that if we all became vegeta
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