Pros And Cons Of Animal Slaughtering

Many vegans (including Gary Steiner) feel that buying meat, even humanely treated or free-range meat, is morally wrong. Gary Steiner goes on to say, “Chickens may be labeled free-range even if they’ve never been outside or seen a speck of daylight in their entire lives” (196). In other words, even if meats are labeled free-range, that doesn’t mean they treated humanely. He goes on to say, “Even if it is raised “free range”, it still lives a life of pain and confinement that ends with the butcher’s knife” (196). With this knowledge, we must ask why consumers still buy these items. Steiner believes this is because of the soothing feeling their conscience receives when purchasing these falsely reassuring labels. When it comes to the welfare and respect of animal life, ignorance
A simple google search of animal slaughterhouses shows the grim truth of animal production lines. Hit, kicked, and piled on top of each other, the animals are treated like objects. After living the most horrendous life, animals have been known to be improperly slaughtered. Improper slaughtering will cause great pain. Pain that factory workers have become overly accustom to. This is where Steiner gets the feeling that meat eaters just don’t care. Steiner goes on to say, “If they did care, they would learn as much as possible about the ways in which our society systematically abuses animals …” (197). Factory animals are lined up to be one by one heartlessly killed in a cold way, as if they were raw materials. The most social media grow, the more slaughterhouse cruelty is known. Can people, as animals, morally continue to eat meat, wear leather, and go to the circus? Can we honestly say we’d be ok with this treatment inflicted upon our family, friends, or neighbors? But, no one wants to think about where their food comes from if it were