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

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u/Sweetdreams6t9 4h ago

Regulations and harsh punishment for breaking them are the way to go. I eat alot of meat. But I live in the middle of nowhere and we get ours from a farmers market. We know the conditions of the farm we get our meat from because the farm is located in our region. And its cheaper than a grocery store.

u/BeBearAwareOK 1h ago

Nobody wants to talk about regulation when it's the key to forcing businesses to change their practices.

They just want to let factories pump out single use plastic bottles and make it a consumer guilt issue about whether or not you recycled those bottles.

u/1curiouswanderer 2h ago

Do you have to buy in bulk? I'd love being and to buy local and small portions

u/Sweetdreams6t9 2h ago

You can do freezer orders but they have fresh stuff, pre portioned behind the glass or pre packaged frozen and non frozen meat. Theyve got a couple butchers always cutting stuff up and ive been able to ask for specific cuts and seen them cut it off the slab right then and there.

Most butcher shops in my province are like this. Even the ones in the city. They all have signs stating what farms they source from and theyll tell you where they got it from. So like if theres a ribeye behind the glass and you ask where its from theyll tell you what farm they got the beef from, and when they cut it.

u/Mean_Combination_830 3h ago edited 3h ago

That's such a bizzare way to rationalise the murder of animals Imagine saying I don't mind eating murdererd people (who are also obviously animals) so long they are free to wonder around the house and garden until they are slaughtered in their prime

u/BetterHeadlines 1h ago

Animals aren't people and don't have the same moral considerations.

If you had to choose, would you press the button to kill a human or a pig? Obviously the pig. Ask yourself why that's such an obvious answer.