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- cross-posted to:
- vegancirclejerk@lemmy.world
- 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17066438
They’re usually shredded alive almost immediately because they’re seen as “waste” since they don’t lay eggs
For some more context:
Considering the chicks don’t know what’s coming, it’s probably not a terrible way to go. It’s gruesome, but it’s over in an instant. Factory farming in general is a horror show, and this is one of the least inhumane ways animals are killed for profit.
My brother in Christ they are literally put through a meat grinder alive. Put a human through a meat grinder that’s 10x bigger than your body while conscious, anyone gonna say that person died peacefully?
Not peacefully, no. But instantaneous death beats a lot of the other variations of unconscionable suffering visited upon factory farm animals.
A human would be aware of what is happening, and the size difference would mean you would need a much larger machine than that to instantaneously destroy an entire person. But if you had to choose between instantaneous obliteration and a slow, torturous existence, some people might actually choose the instant death.
I don’t get this “it could have been worse” mentality. Somebody dies of cancer we don’t say “well at least they weren’t waterboarded and gang raped! Lucky them!”
You don’t understand how a quick death is better than a lifetime of torture and an eventual slow death?
It’s not like there is a pack of gang-raping waterboarding guys waiting outside the cancer wards waiting to waterboard and gang rape all the cancer survivors. If there were, there might be a few who don’t fight cancer as hard.
Have you never heard the phrase “died peacefully in his sleep” or “at least it was quick”?
Meat grinder is not equal to dying peacefully in one’s sleep. A bullet to the head is also quick but we don’t celebrate muggings turned homicide. It’s not that I don’t get the point being made it’s that it’s a weird fucking point to make
If they were sent through one by one, maybe. But you wanna bet they’re just literally shoveled into a hopper on top of each other while in sheer terror or being trampled to death by the others? You ever meet an animal? Do you really believe there’s no understanding of a bad situation?
I’ve met baby chicks. They’re adorable, and about as self-aware as a furby. I’m not saying they don’t suffer, but they don’t suffer terror or panic the way a human would. And considering the life of a factory farm chicken, they definitely suffer less.
Either way, we should end inhumane factory farming practices. If we stop torturing chickens for food, we will also stop shoveling baby chicks into a meat grinder.
No they don’t suffer terror or panic as a human would, they suffer terror and panic in a way a chicken would, it’s still terror and panic. They also suffer pain, I imagine being ripped to death would be quite painful, human or not.
Oh good… and here I was horrified thinking that had to be one of the worst ways to go…
You’re right, it is a horrible way to go. It’s just not the worst.