The Least We Can Do?
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Adam Shriver is at it again.
Last time he wrote an article for New Scientist about the possibility of pain-free farm animals. Now he’s written something on the same topic for the New York Times.
He first describes the science behind the possibility of pain-free or minimized pain-experiences for animals who are treated like meat before and after they die. Then he concludes by saying:
“If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.”
Implied is the reminder of the superior option: abolish factory farms.
It’s unbelievable what lengths they will attempt to justify “meat”. But the logical next step of course is to create humans who can’t feel pain and have them work in the fields, or replace ineffective “science” testing… Or hey! How ’bout organ harvesting? They won’t feel a thing right?
The future implications are frightening!
.-= Bea Elliott´s last blog ..Agriprocessor – The Under Belly of the Meat Industry =-.
Except the superior option is, of course, construed as the inferior option by virtue of its default impossibility (yes, “I can’t do it” is the default stance of meat-eaters).
.-= Louche´s last blog ..Pollan: Alienated from Animality? =-.