Saying goodbye to pork

[malada]

With a little research one can find out that pigs are fairly intelligent animals.

With even less research you can discover the horrifying and disgusting ways they're treated. Hog farms tend to raise them in cages, have themlive in their own feces and stuff them with antibiotics. In some states, they have huge holding ponds of pig excrement which they empty by 'aeration': mixing the shit with water then shooting it into the air. This aerial shit storm then rains down on their poorer and powerless neighbors.

Yeah, and this is legal too.

So yeah, no more pork for me. No bacon (and no meat is tastier than bacon!) either. I'm not a big meat eater to begin with but every bit helps. Screw you pork industry - I don't want to eat your shitty meat.

I know cows and chickens are treated badly too. I don't have a serious problem with eating meat - especially beef - in particular: cows are a renewable resource. I eat the cow, I wear the cow. I just think that if we're going to kill and eat animals we should give them a good life - not a living hell.

On that note, I'm hoping the Impossible Burger can scale. If we can make meaty like burgers from plant material and make it competitive to beef it will be a game changer. A tasty game changer.

-m

Comments

[siliconshaman]

I'll point out there is a fair bit of research into making cloned or lab grown pork.. mostly because it's close enough to humans that the same process can be used to grow organs on demand. But the side effect is that cruelty free pork maybe on the menu soon.

and I am boggling what American agri-corps do... seriously, you'd never get away with that here.