Slaughtering and eating cats (NSFW?)

[lordpasternack]

This is a derail from the lolcatz thread in the Pub http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4742
Content warning: I have not and will not watch the videos in this OP, but my guess is they are not for the squeamish.
-- Ronja



Too right.





Nom.

[Hermit]

Thanks a lot for those lolcats.



I guess Cormac would enjoy those clips, so it's not all bad.

[lordpasternack]

Just highlighting our lovely tacit hypocrisy between our attitude towards "pet" animals, and those that died for their/our food. So much livestock is treated similarly to those cats, and I bet cats and dogs are damn tasty.

[charlou]

Just highlighting our lovely tacit hypocrisy between our attitude towards "pet" animals, and those that died for their/our food. So much livestock is treated similarly to those cats, and I bet cats and dogs are damn tasty.

Caring for animal friends is good for humans. So is eating meat.

[charlou]

[Rum]

[charlou]

[charlou]

[charlou]

[charlou]

More seriously ...

Some debate here over the government's decision to halt live animal trade with indonesia pending improvement in their livestock handling and slaughter methods. This action has had a huge impact on local producers and employment ... I understand the situation they're in, but think the government has taken the right action on this. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/anima ... 1frtf.html

[Audley Strange]

Nom!

[Cormac]

(...and while wooly is maturing we can grow some mint and procure some vinager)...

[charlou]

(...and while wooly is maturing we can grow some mint and procure some vinager)...

[leo-rcc]

Just highlighting our lovely tacit hypocrisy between our attitude towards "pet" animals, and those that died for their/our food. So much livestock is treated similarly to those cats, and I bet cats and dogs are damn tasty.

Where I grew up on my uncles farm, our livestock got treated very well, got their food, got watered, got milked in time, and when the milk production went down, it was time to get them to the slaughterhouse. I like cows, always have, but I have no personal attachment to them. If I were to start a dog farm for their meat, I would not have a personal attachment to these dogs either. That doesn't mean I would mistreat them, but I just wouldn't keep them as pets. Id make sure they are fed, got water, got hygienic conditions to live in, and were properly medicated, but that is it.

Now it is unfortunate that even in a well regulated country like mine, all too often animals have to be slaughtered or transferred to other farms because the farmer in question does nothing to protect his livestock, doesn't put the effort in or just doesn't know how to do so. Animals do suffer needlessly sometimes, and the effects of this animal cruelty can be very graphic indeed. It is however very disingenuous to say that this is common practice, while the truth is that the vast majority of all farms with livestock in our country is well up to par.

[lordpasternack]

Just highlighting our lovely tacit hypocrisy between our attitude towards "pet" animals, and those that died for their/our food. So much livestock is treated similarly to those cats, and I bet cats and dogs are damn tasty.

Caring for animal friends is good for humans. So is eating meat.

Actually, most vegetarians are healthier than the average "omnivore" in Western society. Practically every quantitative study reveals this same old fact. We simply don't need to eat meat to subsist. We want to eat it… and we're not 'meant' to be COMPLETELY vegetarian (though best bets are that we're meant to be MOSTLY vegetarian) in much the same sense that we're not 'meant' to wear clothes, drive cars, live in air-conditioned houses in cities, and fly at several thousand feet above sea level going at several hundred miles per hour, and all the other privileges that have been bestowed on us since we started rising above nature.

As for mistreatment - were the cats in the first video really being mistreated? They were being treated coldly, unaffectionately, bundled into cages, and what have you, but I didn't see them being beaten or handled too aggressively. Maybe they're all fed well and otherwise not mistreated… And as for prevalence of such treatment, well, safe to say, particularly in America, factory farming is going mainstream - battery hens already ARE mainstream (aww, but they're just chooks), and veal crates were only fairly recently banned in the EU… conditions that may not always be overtly 'cruel', but which we wouldn't dream of ever bestowing on cats or dogs, all the same - even those who weren't OUR 'animal friends'. Fancy trucks loaded with kittehs headed for the abbatoir…