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In reply to the discussion: Should Factory Farming Be Banned? [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The same system that uses animals as widgets to produce profit at the least cost without regard for their welfare or happiness uses human beings as widgets to produce profit without regard for their welfare or happiness.
You can maintain some veneer of free range happy meat bullshit with regulation, but the fundamental cruelties of the system are unchanged: you're still dealing with animals bred into inherently unhealthy extremes ( "layer" hens that produce 30x more eggs than wild ancestors and wind up crippled by bone loss to fuel it, cows that are impregnated and their young killed so people can take the milk from enormous, mastitis-plagued udders...) to maximize profit. That's as true for pastured/organic/free range/blah blah production as for the cheapest shit at the cheapest grocery store.