Fiction, right? And was the animal duly appreciative of their gratitude? Have you ever seen anyone do that in a supermarket or restaurant? Like, say, when they choose the handcuffed lobster in the tiny tank that' going to be boiled alive for their dinner? They thank God, maybe, not the steer, pig or the fish being dumped from nets to a hold, like so much garbage. As for the long-lived fish-eaters, they're already old. Their children and grandchildren are eating microplastic and will not last as long. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariellasim ... 568e517071Walker wrote: ↑Mon Aug 15, 2022 8:10 am Recently I watched this series on Netflix called Alone. It’s about survivalists doing their thing. They could have called the series Alone and Hungry. Alone was the situation but hunger was the theme. Every once in awhile one of them would kill an animal for food. What was noticeable was the profound thanks that these people expressed to the animal they had killed. They would thank the animal for its life, and they would sometimes use those very words.
There's no intent at cruelty in factory farming, either: it's not personal; it's just business: get the most money by the most efficient means.With the focus on the transfer of life from the animal to them, rather than the focus of life ending in a cruel death, it’s obvious that killing the animal had no intent of cruelty.
The last moments are the very least of their suffering. Their entire lives, from birth to early death, is miserable. It doesn't require very much imagination to understand that being taken from one's mother at birth and raised in a cage or jammed together in a feed-lot is not a happy life, even before the individual loaded into the cattle-car or truck and marched into the abattoir to be hung up by one leg for the blood-letting.This is interesting because for folks who don’t get involved with killing their own food, which is a lot of people, killing and cruelty get linked together by imagination of what it must be like for the animal at the last moment of their time.
So... the victim doesn't really mind...?The presence of certain death just may obliterate any sense of cruelty when time runs out.
One gets an education around here!