September 2010
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sototallycarl asked: There is no such thing as mindful consumption of meat. Is there such a thing as mindful farming of people? A mindful murder of a human? A mindful genocide? How is killing in one way more humane than killing in another? It could be more considerate and ultimately less gruesome, but at the end of the day your killing a sentient being. If you had to kill the animal yourself looking it right in the...
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Reforming Meat
“Livestock is increasingly traded from packer to packer, not farm to packer, giving packers more control of the total market — in the pasture, in the barns, in the feedlots and on the killing floor. This, in turn, makes price collusion and manipulation much too easy. Mr. Vilsack’s rules aim to address this, making it illegal for packers to sell livestock to other packers.
By themselves,...