> Want your kids to work forced overtime attaching dead chickens to hooks in a fridge?
I get your point. But the example doesn’t look convincing. If you’re comfortable with eating meat you should be comfortable with seeing how it’s made.
I get your point. But the example doesn’t look convincing. If you’re comfortable with eating meat you should be comfortable with seeing how it’s made.
1. The danger of putting the dead chickens on the sharp hooks -- shorter, weaker, less mature children are more likely to be injured or injure others with those hooks 2. The forced overtime - a kid needs to eat and sleep a ton, not spend 2 hours working at 3pm, then another hour at 9pm and another 4hours at 4am and then another 5 hours at 11am.
They have commitments that we as a society want them to make, like going to school, and those are incompatible with the modern just-in-time labour practices. Not that those are good for adults either, but it's even worse for kids to drop out in order to meet the anti-benefits scheduling. Children have neither the power, nor the maturity to push back on a boss that is taking advantage of them
In the same way that if you're comfortable defecating you should be comfortable with having a sewage treatment plant in your back yard ?
Pretty sure that can get covered by a field trip , or even a video.
As a teenager I got to see my father and two uncles kill, sanitize, and pluck one goose and two chickens that we had for a Thanksgiving dinner one year. It was rather interesting, and it gave me more appreciation and insight into each of them as individuals (the men not the birds).
Even if you do grow everything yourself, people had to suffer to obtain the nitrogen and phosphorus in your fertilizer.
> 1 kg of meat requires 2.8 kg of human-edible feed for ruminants and 3.2 for monogastrics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...
As for fertilizer, the usage is lower without animal agriculture even compared to best case usage of manure
> Thus, shifting from animal to plant sources of protein can substantially reduce fertilizer requirements, even with maximal use of animal manure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
I've never done any of these things but my friends seem fine to me.
The problem with children working in slaughter houses isnt that the children will be exposed to dead animals, its that they'll be exposed to unsafe working conditions and taken advantage of by their employer.
I have no issues with children (14-18) having jobs, but there are industries we should strive as a society to keep them from. I wouldn't want kids working in animal food production for the same reasons I wouldn't want them in coal mines. It is important to consoder that those _reasons_ to start to dissipate as one matures and gets older and able to hold their own.
As a society we really should be striving to give kids the best opportunities to engage in constructive play and school before jobs in my opinion. Not that my opinion matters at all though...
And you're completely correct. There are reasons why we don't let kids make a huge number of different contracts. They don't have the knowledge to know when they are being exploited.