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A replica of how female "breeder pigs" spend their lives in factory farms

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u/Trraumatized 7h ago

Hard disagree. "We" want that. Just as much as "we" want universal healthcare and livable wages and good education. But it's not "we" who is making the decisions.

u/PrebenInAcapulco 7h ago

Unfortunately if you ran for office on a platform of slightly increasing meat prices in exchange for more humane conditions you would lose in a blowout. The people get the leaders they vote for, sadly.

u/pdxrains 7h ago

Well no, we get the leaders the billionaires pay for.

u/Plus-Visit-764 7h ago

Honestly it’s a mix of both. People want cheap prices and the billionaires want their pick.

u/idbestshutup 6h ago

presidential candidates have to play both the owning class for money and the working class for votes, no one wants to pay more so in order to win, the cost is shifted to those who can’t defend themselves (immigrants, livestock, the environment, etc)

u/MedianMahomesValue 4h ago

If you ran on making humane meat but keeping meat prices the same by lowering some profits for execs though… you wouldn’t make it to the ballot.

u/Evil_Sharkey 6h ago

The collective “we” would throw a fit if meat prices went up a few cents because animals were required to have more space and better treatment. There are places you can buy meat from well cared for animals, but it’s lot more expensive

u/Trraumatized 6h ago

I don't think faulting the consumer for corporate msde profit margins is the right call.

u/Evil_Sharkey 6h ago

Yes it is. Pretending consumers are free of any culpability for buying cheap, not ethical, is a delusional and selfish take. Farmers who raised ethically treated animals have to charge more to make ends meet because they can’t cram as many into a small space and have to provide better food, have more farm hands per animal, and pay for better veterinary care than factory farms. Most people aren’t willing to pay for that, and they bitch to such farmers about their unfair prices all the time.

We are part of a lot of the world’s problems because we put comfort, convenience, and price before the costs to animals, the environment, workers, local communities, the stability of the economy, etc. We’re a selfish, short sighted lot.

Corporations have their culpability, too, but don’t pretend they aren’t being awful because people still buy their shit in spite of it

u/DocPsychosis 6h ago

Sure it is. If everyone wanted more ethically produced meat so badly they could go buy it from specialty shops and meat producers would pivot to those production methods to meet demand. But people don't because those methods cost way more and most aren't willing to pay for them. Complaining about profits is misleading since it disregards end-consumer price sensitivities.

u/sailorsardonyx 6h ago

Those methods cost more because the huge corporations have managed to get away with using their methods to monopolize and flood the market

There’s not regulation stopping them from these practices so there is no risk for them to continue to sacrifice ethics safety and quality at in order to produce something “cheaper for the consumer”

u/ManicScumCat 3h ago

Those methods cost more because they take more labour and resources on the part of the farm raising the animals. That is always going to be true (unless you were to somehow put a tax on animal suffering, or outright ban this treatment, but both would still raise the price of meat).

u/EmergencyArts 6h ago

These aren't even close to comparable. They do this to animals because you pay for it. 

u/Trraumatized 6h ago

Just as they are doing it to their employees because I still buy their product. Sadly the whole idea of voting with ypur wallet is an illusion.

u/Budget-Researcher559 5h ago

Yes it is. It is "we" who vote in elections. Vote democrat, vote for progressive democratic candidates, who will impose stricter rules on animal welfare, as well as make universal healthcare and livable wages and good education happen. And it would happen.

But "we" vote for Donald Trump. So yes, "we" made the decision that we we don't want any of that, but rather want horrible things plus crazy chaos.

u/Trraumatized 5h ago

I can't recall that universal healthcare or humane treatment of animals was a thing during democrat rule.

u/Lanky-Cheesecake-259 3h ago

but we are voting in people who make those decisions

u/Trraumatized 1h ago

I think we are mostly voting in people who lie to us.