My point wasn't about the methods used to kill animals. My point was about the way that animals destined for consumption live their lives.
Are you saying that since you like meat and to get meat you have to kill an animal, you don't care what happens to an animal along the way? Or, to put it another way, there can't be such a thing as animal cruelty for animals destined for the slaughterhouse?
Certainly, that seems to be the attitude of some others on the forum, as well as to deride people who feel otherwise as belonging to the "bambi" camp. You haven't done so--that's not what I'm suggesting. I just don't understand those whose appetite for meat prevents them from accepting the idea that livestock can have the chance to lead more comfortable lives while still ending up on the plate.
Again, most of the blame in my mind belongs to the factory-style farming trend. In factory farms livestock generally live very differently from their family-farm brethren. People have the right to choose to eat meat, but not necessarily the right to eat cheap meat. The profit motive is the only thing behind factory farming--sheer efficiency--and that's not a good thing when we're talking about living things.
