Capitalist Factory Farms News
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Actually, I am pescetarian, which means I eat some fish. As my decision to stop eating any form of meat was on ethical grounds, I do have a struggle with my conscience over eating fish. I don’t knowingly eat farmed fish, and I wouldn’t eat any endangered species. But if the fish lived a free life, in the sea or a river, I will eat it.
The reason for my ethical self-denial is due to the spread of the capitalist controlled factory farms. I object to the mindless cruel methods of rearing and slaughtering animals that are an integral part of this method of animal husbandry. It has no sympathy for the pain and suffering experienced during the life of the animal. Nor is it concerned with the pain experienced by the animals at the kill either.
The farms I have visited in Brazil appear to be run differently. The several I visited here were modelled on the same system I remember in England as a child. The animals are free to roam and are cared for by the farmer. However, I only saw a few farms in Minas Gerais and then only in one small area. I hope this is the norm, not an exception. However, I do not know how the animals are slaughtered.
It is extremely difficult to be vegetarian (and pescetarian) in Brazil. To be offered perfectly good vegetarian food, rice, beans, and vegetables, for example, which is then contaminated by meat, goes against the beliefs of vegetarians. Taking the meat off isn’t the answer it shouldn’t be there in the first place. A religious person wants his/her beliefs respected and rightly so. It is about respect and while vegetarianism isn’t a religion it is an ethical movement that we vegans, vegetarians and pescetarians believe strongly about.
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