Can meat be cruelty free?
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Doug Freyburger say: Nature is cruel.
Most farmed animals never in their lives experience cruelty. In modern slaughterhouses not even as they are killed. it took a lot of work to figure that part out but animals lulled into calmness taste better.
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say: Nope.
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random_man say: It depends on how you define "cruelty". I am perfectly comfortable eating meat and animal products, ethically. But some would argue that anything that involves slaughtering animals cannot be "cruelty free".
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Paula say: Possibly.
My grandfather (who kept pigs and many other farm animals) told me that pigs were the most intelligent of them all.
He said a pig would watch you and look you in the eye. And that they would squeal if they sensed danger.
So part of meat production involves reducing stress in animals at all stages of their life.
Modern farming does that.
And it makes the slaughtering process better for the animals and the people who do it.
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Donut Tim say: Yes, pretty much.
Of all the animals on Earth other than humans and our pets, the ones whose lives are the most comfortable, suffer the least from diseases and pain, live with the least anxiety and fear, have the most secure food supply and die in the most pain free and most humane manner are our domesticated livestock here in the United States. All animals die, you can’t prevent that. They don’t feel pain after they die.
(Yes, there are exceptions where some people do bad things to animals just as some people do bad things to other people.)
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say: Do you know what you mean by "cruelty free"? I ask because there are lots of people using made-up little phrases that they think sound good but are meaningless.
Meat itself is ALL "cruelty free" as it comes from animals that are already dead. If you mean that the meat is from animals that have been bred, raised and slaughtered in a way that you consider "cruelty free" then you need to say what you mean by that and explain what "cruelty" you think is involved in standard meat production.
ALL. meat production involves animals being bred and raised specifically for meat. When they are old enough they are slaughtered.
Killing an animal might be distasteful but it need not involve any "cruelty".
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say: You can grow barbecue chicken wings on the tree know.
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Mike say: Yes but you must let it die naturally first. It's what the zombies do when they run out of people who have the ability to run away from them.
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Egbert say: Most of it is. In the UK all animals are either stunned unconscious before slaughter or dispatched painlessly with a humane killer bolt. The exceptions are halal meat where the animals throats are cut without any preparation. This is an Islamic tradition which has no place in the UK in my view.
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emu567550 say: No, and no food is because all food you can eat, parts of it were once part of a living thing.
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Ocate say: Yes, some slaughter house kills animal in a fast way.
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Blonde say: Yes. My neighbor buys black angus calves every spring, lets them graze for seven months on natural grasses, then butchers them in the fall. Different than mega farms, where cattle are huddled together and fed pellets. My grandmother had a chicken house for collection of eggs, but chickens were allowed to roam freely...she would occasionally walk outside, catch one and twist it’s neck to be cooked for dinner..it was an instant death, I saw her once do it. Her chickens were not kept in cages. Sorry PETA, some animals are FOOD.
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Louis say: Maybe lab grown meat. but
We don't usually use the term cruelty-free to describe meat. It's usually used for non-edible products. that not only is it not made from animals but it wasn't tested on animals, and animal products were not used in the production of the product.
Meat, eggs, and milk cannot be cruelty-free. Animals have to die or be exploited to create those products.
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