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Originally Posted by Daradon
Do we like watching the animals die? Maybe not. But do we like to pretend that they never did? YUP!
Is one worse than the other?
I guess what I'm saying is I know that animal rights in China are bad.
But I can't point a finger at China when we do a little better (still bad) on a MUCH LARGER SCALE.
It's brutal here yes, cause the cruelty hits so close to home.
But we process like a machine. We have no reason to point.
Death is not the same as torture.
Death is not the same as waste.
And one high profile lamb is not the same as ongoing waste that we see every day in various industries.
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There's a reason those machines are behind the closed doors of a slaughterhouse, many people in western society would be disagreeable to seeing what actually goes on. This however is a public spectacle being enjoyed by the masses and sold at a profit. This goat wasn't fed to the lions because it was part of their normal and neccessary diet. It was because an audience paid to see it thrown into the lion's den to run for it's life and then be mauled to shreds. There's a vast difference between the large scale industrialization of the processing of animals for neccessary food...and the cruel treatment of animals for entertainment purposes, mostly as to what it says about the audience's view and attitude toward fellow creatures be they animal or ultimately even human. When you enjoy and tolerate this, is there much difference between throwing a goat into a pen of lions or riding a bus and throwing live chickens down a chute to predators... and rounding up the neighbourhood dogs and having them kill each other in the basement? This is not an issue of the efficiency and waste of the industrial production of food...this is an issue of a society which does not recognize the concept of inhumane treatment or cruelty to animals or the logical progression - fellow man.
You seem to be arguing that you consider waste to be more pressing an issue than torture. I simply don't understand that. Also, as an aside, since the food industry in N.A. is predicated on capitalism, it is by default one of the most ridiculously efficient and least wasteful industries in the industrialized world. Literally everything that comes from a farmed animal is used believe it or not. Even those chicken feathers from the KFC factory are pulped into protein feed or fertilizer for other animals simply because that's how you make the most money.