Chiama per porre fine a “una delle forme più gravi di crudeltà verso gli animali in questo paese”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calls-end-one-most-severe-35328465
di ItsWormAllTheWayDown
Chiama per porre fine a “una delle forme più gravi di crudeltà verso gli animali in questo paese”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calls-end-one-most-severe-35328465
di ItsWormAllTheWayDown
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This isn’t going to get popular support and won’t happen as a result, humanity is far too selfish to do the right thing here.
Farrowing crates: metal cages that hold a sow immobile after giving birth for up to five weeks.
Imagine being held by metal bars barely wide enough for you to lay down on bare concrete with your limbs beneath you, for five weeks. She can’t turn, she can’t roll, she can’t build her straw up into a nest, she can’t properly look after her babies. All she can do is stand there, helpless.
Needs to be followed by a ban on importing pork from countries that also do this.
Is this actually a practice in the UK though? Which farms do this?
Realistically:
Consumers / the population need to choose between cheap meat or ethical meat. You can’t have both.
Same goes for all those clothes and trainers that are made in sweatshops abroad.
And the general population seems happy to turn a blind eye to both the above.
I haven’t eaten meat/dairy for 4 years and i’m *still* learning about terribly cruel practices that i didn’t know existed.
Animal agriculture in this country may be better than some other countries, but it’s still absolutrely barbaric.
did you know that surveys suggest that around 25% of gen Z don’t eat meat? just throwing that out there if we’re talking about ending cruel practices surrounding animal farming
It’s worth noting that the NPA (National Pig Association, who represent UK pork farmers) lobbied against a proposed ban in 2019/2020, as giving the pigs better welfare would cut their profits too much.
Animal farmers only care about profits, and will continue to abuse animals until the consumer stops paying them.
We should ban halal slaughtering then to, as with halal slaughtering you cut the throat of the animal with a sharp knife and let it bleed out. That’s totally not“humane”.
Just a quick reminder that there’s no such thing as ethical or humane animal agriculture/meat. If you eat meat and dairy you’re supporting and funding animal abuse.
Give it some thought.
I get why they are used, mother pigs crushing their babes is a real problem. Especially if you are trying to make money. However a great alternative actually comes from Clarkson, called ‘Clarkson’s Ring’. Essentially just a round home/hut with a raised bar following the wall so if the mother pig goes to lay down, the piglets are pushed behind the bar to vastly reduce the crushing.
Two meats I would recommend to avoid as much as possible are pork and chicken. Pork and chicken is so cheap in this country, nearly all of it is factory farmed otherwise it wouldn’t be profitable.
I have cut down on meat a lot, but if I do eat it, I try my hardest to stick to cheap beef from a local farmers market like mince, bavette, hanger etc from my farmers market. It’s not perfect, but its a tiny step in the right direction.
I think one area that looks promising is shellfish farming. From what I have seen, farmed mussels/oysters/clams are possibly the most sustainable and ethical source of animal protein at the moment. I have replaced a lot of my meat consumption with tinned shellfish (mussels in particular)
I was an Agri student in South Africa in the 80’s and this was considered inhumane then, even amongst the other brutal practices at the time.
I can’t believe it still goes on.
For as long as animals are used as commodities, they’ll be treated as such