The pork industry’s forced cannibalism
vox.com
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We shouldn't need to rely on illegal undercover activist video to see how our food is made.
― Paul McCartney
- myshpa
https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/transfarmation-ani...
A ‘Transfarmation’: Meet The Woman Helping Animal Farms Turn Vegan
Heiligtag has helped 125 farms in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany move away from animals. She calls this process a “transfarmation.” Animals will either be moved to sanctuaries, or remain and allowed to live out their natural lives in peace.
The new farms will always be entirely vegan.
Farmers mostly get in contact after experiencing the guilt that sometimes comes with their line of work. “They suffer because of what they have to do to animals,” she says. “It can be that they have been suffering for years and years and years and didn’t see a way out, but it can also happen that they look into one animal’s eyes and suddenly realize there’s someone behind these eyes.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOGfMScPL8k
5 Times Dairy Farmers Went Vegan
Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28506017/
Prevalence of serious psychological distress among slaughterhouse workers at a United States beef packing plant
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841092/
Slaughtering for a living: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective on the well-being of slaughterhouse employees
https://hazlitt.net/blog/monstrous-cruelty-just-world
The Monstrous Cruelty of a Just World
https://faunalytics.org/differing-empathy-in-vegetarians-veg...
Differing Empathy in Vegetarians, Vegans, and Omnivores
> it's easy to see how Germans could have no problem killing Jews in concentration camps if they were similar personalities
I'm somewhat surprised by the increased empathy to humans though.
As a meat eater the ethics of meat eating is more a question of respect for the animal, I don't lack empathy for humans.
Further, my observation of pet owners, their empathy for pets seems to reduce their empathy for fellow humans.
Hmm, I haven’t seen that correlation, but it’s worth noting that there are all sorts of people who keep pets for all sorts of different reasons, so I don’t doubt it’s true for some.
That makes sense. But becoming a pet owner also makes you more likely to want to save an unspecified dog over a unspecified person.
> becoming a pet owner also makes you more likely to want to save an unspecified dog over a unspecified person
From the article:
> In the scenarios involving an unspecified dog, only around 20% of American pet owners say they would choose to save the dog over the person or people
My reading of that data is different from yours. Does a 20% chance of something sound more likely or less likely?
'Family' takes many different forms though (nation, ethnicity, species, etc) I'm not saying it's right or wrong but I would include a human stranger in my 'family' over a known pet.
More likely than a non pet-owner (10%).
As a meat eater ... you cannot yet know what you lack/you'd gain ;)
> pet owners, their empathy for pets seems to reduce their empathy for fellow humans
It's funny that when someone adopts a rabbit, pig, or chicken as a pet, they often (based on anecdotes) stop eating that specific type of meat, but they don't typically stop eating other animals.
Something changes when people decide to stop eating meat.
No, I'd even grant that my pov could even be a sign of lowered empathy, but as my second part was meant to indicate. On the other hand developing an empathy for other animals can lead to lowered empathy for the 'murderers' of those animals.
If you empathise with foos and bars, and foos are harming bars, surely that would impact your empathy for foos.
Btw, most vegans used to be meat eaters previously.
As my SO says: "they (carnists) just don't know ... yet".
Interesting topics all around.
The ops point is its an issue of spreading disease