Do you think empathy has anything to do with preventing children from seeing slaughterhouses? Can you tell me where you got the impression that I'm lacking in empathy?
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If your children see cows panicking at a slaughterhouse, if they see pigs crying, because they can smell their death...maybe empathy ocures, incase they are not completely numb... Children in the states believe that milk comes from the supermarket! They don't even realise, that a cow had been violently impregnated by a human who reached into her body with his arm and artificially inseminated her, then gave birth to a baby after 9 months, then in the same hour after birth her child was taken away, so the milk is for human consumption!
I mean it's important to know where our food comes from. To take conscious desicions...
Sorry I took so long to reply, I don't know why I miss my Nostr notifications so often.
You're right. Children are plenty capable of feeling empathy and sympathy for animals. When children learn about what it takes to get meat, they often do ask "why."
But my mom finds that all it takes to get them to accept the treatment of animals is to say that it's how we get our meat, and to ask them what else we could possibly do. That tends to address their concerns pretty well.
