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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I agree with this too. I hate reading this stuff or thinking about it too much because it really is horrendous what we do to animals. People glossing over all this and pretending we're somehow morally better than Muslims or Jews because we kill those animals a bit differently are burying their heads in the sand imho

"We kill, skin, chop up and consume the flesh of animals in a NICE way, not like these backwards folks from backwards places "

It is a barbaric practice but, if we're being totally honest, it's just one of a whole heap of things we put on the morality back-burner in order to live a normal day to day life . We exploit animals, we exploit less fortunate humans, we exploit the planet itself. And we are ourselves exploited. But it's how our race now functions from the ground up and doing anything different would be a radical departure from everything we consider to be "a normal life", and it would also be impossible in practical terms, because of how far along we are now. I think I said in another thread recently... Any chance the human race had to go in a different direction ended in the early 1800's with the industrial revolution. The only choices now are to accept / ignore the overall ****show and live happily day to day... Or attempt to fight against it but inevitably fail. I personally just don't have the energy for grand idealism on top of the day to day stuff, so... I'm going to keep eating piggies .