Anonymous
10/17/2025, 2:59:36 PM
No.82829120
>>82826859
Moral in the sense of "we don't think it's good to torture things that can feel pain like we do"? Yes. Factory meat farming is some kind of domesticated livestock hell. It's horrifying on any level. Even after the animals are dead the meatpacking industry is a puke-inducing dangerous hellscape for humans too. It's all just awful and hasn't changed that much since The Jungle.
Was it immoral to domesticate them in the first place? I'm going to say no, not really. Hunting is hard and risky so penning a beast and breeding it to be a docile pile of food was a smart solution to the hunting problem. Permanent settlements took us out of the roaming lifestyle and let us sit and think so we could get to this point where we can argue over morals instead of foraging for scraps.
In return, the creature gets a relatively easier life and doesn't have to worry about predators or starvation, although it will die in a similar way to a hunted animal (it doesn't know that). We deliberately bred them for stupidity and obedience so they more or less are no longer anything like the wild species initially tamed and letting them go now would just mean their extinction.
Moral in the sense of "we don't think it's good to torture things that can feel pain like we do"? Yes. Factory meat farming is some kind of domesticated livestock hell. It's horrifying on any level. Even after the animals are dead the meatpacking industry is a puke-inducing dangerous hellscape for humans too. It's all just awful and hasn't changed that much since The Jungle.
Was it immoral to domesticate them in the first place? I'm going to say no, not really. Hunting is hard and risky so penning a beast and breeding it to be a docile pile of food was a smart solution to the hunting problem. Permanent settlements took us out of the roaming lifestyle and let us sit and think so we could get to this point where we can argue over morals instead of foraging for scraps.
In return, the creature gets a relatively easier life and doesn't have to worry about predators or starvation, although it will die in a similar way to a hunted animal (it doesn't know that). We deliberately bred them for stupidity and obedience so they more or less are no longer anything like the wild species initially tamed and letting them go now would just mean their extinction.