California could send a man to prison for 3.5 years for rescuing factory-farmed animals. Where does the movement go from here?

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  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
    181·
    1 year ago

    Are slaughter houses secretive?

    I was raised in an agriculture focused community and did the whole FFA thing in highschool. I’ve since moved to another state and am now living the life of a city slicker, so maybe I’ve just become out of touch, but back then none of the “how the sausage is made” stuff was hidden from us. Hell we had a whole field trip to tour a pair of meat processing plants (one for poultry, one for beef).

    Have things changed over the last 5-10 years? Is my experience just an outlier?

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
      311·
      1 year ago

      I think they’re referring to this:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

      Not necessarily the slaughtering part, but the living conditions that these animals are stuck in, sometimes for years, is barbaric. Imagine being in a cage where you can’t walk and you have to stand in your own shit for days on end.

      The ethics of animal slaughter and how it’s done are almost a separate conversation imo. No living creature deserves to be tortured (and outright torture does occur, see Earthlings or Dominion for the details)

      • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
        42·
        1 year ago

        The ethics of animal slaughter and how it’s done are almost a separate conversation imo

        It is a separate conversation, and I’m glad you pointed it out because it’s an important distinction and one that is far too frequently overlooked.

        • ThePenitentOne
          1·
          1 year ago

          Bringing an animal into the world with the intent of later killing it when it is entirely unnecessary to do so seems a bit wrong no?