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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are slaughter houses secretive?

I was raised in an agriculture focused community and did the whole FFA thing in highschool. I've since moved to another state and am now living the life of a city slicker, so maybe I've just become out of touch, but back then none of the "how the sausage is made" stuff was hidden from us. Hell we had a whole field trip to tour a pair of meat processing plants (one for poultry, one for beef).

Have things changed over the last 5-10 years? Is my experience just an outlier?

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I think they’re referring to this:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

    Not necessarily the slaughtering part, but the living conditions that these animals are stuck in, sometimes for years, is barbaric. Imagine being in a cage where you can’t walk and you have to stand in your own shit for days on end.

    The ethics of animal slaughter and how it’s done are almost a separate conversation imo. No living creature deserves to be tortured (and outright torture does occur, see Earthlings or Dominion for the details)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The ethics of animal slaughter and how it’s done are almost a separate conversation imo

    It is a separate conversation, and I'm glad you pointed it out because it's an important distinction and one that is far too frequently overlooked.

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