Quote Originally Posted by Robot_Butler View Post
Assembly line robots killing baby chicks? This is almost as unethical as wild coyotes killing baby chicks.

Someone has to put an end to this whole "food chain" thing. I'm writing a letter to my congressman telling him to vote to stop macro-biology.
I have to take issue with the conflation of killing an animal to eat it and keeping it in fundamentally inhumane conditions through the entirety of its existence for the purposes of eating it. It seems to me that they're two separate issues. Frankly, the male chicks are the lucky ones.

Do what you want, but using an analogy between an animal eating a wild animal that had the chance to live a good life and be free prior to its death and bringing an animal into the world only to sear its beak off and keep it in hellish conditions for the duration of its short life to justify your choices strikes me as sloppy thinking.

One day, maybe they'll genetically engineer meat that just grows in a vat.

I think that DarkLucidiety's argument about the parental instinct makes a lot of sense applied to most people. They evolved to protect cute. The funny thing is that I just don't give a fuck about that. It bothers me when fish are tortured just as much. It bothers me when people kill ants for fun. I don't even get an emotional reaction to watching that video honestly. I just recognize it as being fucked up and, in the long run, totally avoidable.

And no, I'm not going to start my own farm but I do vote with my dollar. I'd encourage any vegetarians reading this to start eating meat again (limited amounts of it really are good for you) and do the same.