Date of Birth - Day of Betrayal
To me slaughtering, harvesting, killing or what have you is the action.
It is all an act if betrayal.
That is how to the very core in terms of animals used for meat.
To exist, livestock they must be betrayed.
Except for the small percentage of breeding animals and the even smaller percentage of breeding animals retired and kept as pets all these animals are betrayed.
I think that mindset is key for compassionate care and conscientious animal husbandry.
No pig, chicken, calf, lamb, etc deserves to die.
Most humans make the choice to get various proteins and nutrients from animal products and the result of that decision is death.
Recognizing this betrayal of the animals will and desire to live is important.
How we treat the animal during life and through death is key.
This is my passion.
My niche is raising pigs but there is internal conflict...to live they must die an unnatural premature death. Many animals are slaughtered before sexual maturity.
Because the death is unnatural it must be humane.
More on "humane" labels later...
