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Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

Do you look at the cows?

You probably don't have as many near you as I do.

There are more cows than people in Oklahoma.

I see them cramped together in long trailers every day.

Today I looked them in the eyes and I felt their confusion.

I wept, because I too am confused.

They wait in line to die, the same way I wait at the traffic light on my way to work alongside them.

Neither party is free.

Would it be wrong to end their life?

I could swerve in front of the driver and cause an accident.

Would that be less humane than slitting their throat?

Would I be causing fellow humans to go hungry?

Why is only some death justified?

Would I be missed?

I hope they have a better day at work than I do.

I'll miss the cows.

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TheRupertDamnit 1y ago

Hey, friend. You would be missed.

The cows would also probably suffer so the slaughterhouse, unfortunately, is probably still more humane.

Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

There is no humanity in killing. 😔

TheRupertDamnit 1y ago

Humans kill constantly.

But yes, it's not necessarily humane to kill. But, if they were on their way to slaughter, and we're in a horrible car crash, and then suffered until they were slain or died from their injuries laying in the street...

Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

The only reason I didn't is because by choosing to live, I can do more for cows in the future.

Today I must let them be herded to the grave.

The white cow was my favorite but it was also in a cage by itself and was having trouble standing up with the motion of the trailer. It breaks my heart to see animals suffer while people blindly march forward.

I wish I could have stopped to pet the cow, but the systemic destruction of nature doesn't allow for that.

We are not free.

Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

Green hearts are my favorite 🦫

Daniel Wigton 1y ago

I have to admit there is something amiss with the way we treat livestock. I am, I think, at least open to changing my mind. I do wonder though, if humans didn't eat them, would there be any cows at all?

I think there would be some. Dairy and preservation herds, but they aren't wild. They could probably survive in an area without too much competition.

I think we should at a minimum give livestock lives outside of a stockyard. There should be grass under their feet and sky over their head.

Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

They were here before we started eating them, so of course their prolonged existence depends on having an ecosystem to thrive in. Most factory farming doesn't take up the amount of land available on earth. There is plenty of room for cows to thrive alongside civilized humans. They are just as much a part of Earth's ecology as the butterflies and the birds and the bees and the beavers and vultures and snakes. We take them for granted.

Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 1y ago

I try to see some way that humans have benefitted from the current system of meat production.

At the very least, there is a chance that harvesting meat saved us from a path of trail and error in terms of global factory plant farming. I mean, we could have possibly wrecked the world in a way that was more destructive than animal production.

I don't know enough to say one way or the other.

Factory farming of animals is quite destructive ecologically so I hope we can deploy ecologically-friendly and ethical farming of plants in a reasonable timeframe. We should aim to restore nature to its own order instead of intervening at every level. We prey on each other more than anything. We should be preying on our oppressors.