Jul 02 2009
Slate Magazine deconstructs the ‘humane-meat’ myth
Of all the fallacies designed to make people feel good about consuming animal parts is the so-called ‘humane animal farming’, sometimes also called free-range or organic. From the vegan perspective, it’s just hogwash. What many people don’t realize is that life for animals on these deceptively benevolent farms are still treated like property and subjected to an array of painful procedures such as castration, ringing and spaying. And at the end of it, they often go to conventional slaughterhouses to be killed – is that something we do to those we claim to care for? I don’t think so.
Slate Magazine has written an excellent article exposing the facts mentioned above. It falls short of inviting readers to go vegan , but it does so between the lines. When writer James McWilliams advises readers to look for alternatives to alternatives, he’s effectively telling people to drop animal products altogether because there is no better alternative that involves animals. And that’s a fact, not a myth, like ‘humane meat’ is.
