The animals slaughtered for their flesh feel as much pain as a cat or a dog. Those who cannot tell the difference between sentient being over another also have difficulty with other issues such as racism and indiscriminate violence towards other human and non human animals. Out of sight and out of mind. the cognitive dissonance between those who say they care about animals yet support the mass slaughter of them for their own preference is astonishing.
A chicken has to eat to calories of grain to give us one gram of poultry. It consumes twice the calories it provides. A pig eats three times the amount of calories as we get when we eat it.
How would you feel if you were re-incarnated as a factory farmed animal?
In 2019 Satellites detected the pixelated glow of 90,000 fires in the Brazilian Amazon a 30 percent increase from the previous year. The fires weren’t—for the most part—uncontrollable wildfires but a grim reflection of surging deforestation. They had been set to clear land of remaining woodland to make way for cattle or crops.