(04-19-2012, 08:55 PM)Diana Wrote: This just blows my mind. Of course, people mainly see this from the standpoint that disease and unhealthy practices endanger human consumption of the meat. I can't get out of my head the sheer numbers of chickens being heartlessly "processed" as though they had no life, no existence beyond ingredients for Colonel Sanders, or meaning on this beautiful planet.
They don't. They're just matter, things, to be used and profited from.
And that is the crux of this whole debate. They're not viewed as beings...certainly not as other-selves.
(04-19-2012, 08:55 PM)Diana Wrote: It is reprehensible.
It really is.