Yith Solarius
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Posted - 2005.09.30 16:25:00 -
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 Originally by: Saladin
That being said, I have strongly applaud Demundus for bringing up the issue of 'industrialization' of animals. Commercial interests and profiteering have taken the noble profession of agriculture and turned it into a heartless, faceless endeavor. Animals are caged in so they do not move around, they are fed the most obnoxious things (no they are not eating heay), including remnants from their buddy in the next cage/stall who was slaughtered last week. Then we wonder how things like Mad Cow came about. Slaughtering is not carefulling executed tradiition, but is an assembly line task now. I've lived in areas where the cows eat grass, roam free and are slaughtered individually. And anything I have consumed here in the US cannot compare. Even the burgers here are bland and need a heavy dose of spices. I may not be a vegan or a vegetarian, but I am ****ed at what big business has done to the food industry.
Well said, my parents are farmers and I take huge offence at anyone who suggests that all farmer, are motovated purly by selfishness and greed and do not care for the animals that they are rearing, thats does not represent my father or any other farmers that I know!
Big busness has ruined the farming industry but its not so much the corperate producers as the supermarkets that have caused the most amount of damage to agriculture, there culture of perfect looks before quality at the lowest possible cost is causing more and more chemicals to be used as farmers stuggle to make perfectly healthy and nutritous foods match what an buricrat working in an office thinks a vegetable looks like so he can sell it.
Of cource he's already had to sell at a 25% lower because at the last moment the supermarket has said "I know we aranged a price but we are lowering the price now, take it or leave it" and there is no option but to agree, if you say no the goods will simply be imported from Brazil instead and will be left to rot in the farm. Not even in Eve would you get away with this form of buisness practice but [sigh]...
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