The goal should be to eat HUMANE meat if you want to eat meat but can't for ethical reasons.
When I was a kid, my gram grams in Ukraine treated our animals like family members. That cow and hog dinner cooked for them smelled so good I wanted to plant my face in it myself.
My grandfather even built a sun deck for the pigs. A sun deck.
We wanted them to be HAPPY and PLUMPY, and when it was time to get the household through the winter, the dispatching was done quickly.
Humane meat should be scarce and expensive. The problem is that it's hard to know whom to trust with the claims of humanely raised stock.
> The goal should be to eat HUMANE meat if you want to eat meat but can't for ethical reasons.
To a lot of us, it will never be considered humane to kill something that is perfectly healthy for no other reason than that we want to eat something that tastes a certain way.
> When I was a kid, my gram grams in Ukraine treated our animals like family members
This is called "sustenance". They are not your pets. You treat the animals well because they literally feed you through the cold months. People don't understand that in many parts of the world not eating meat is a huge luxury.
That's a big goalpost shift. You went from "treat animals like family members" to "some people need meat to survive" those are entirely different arguments.
When I was a kid, my gram grams in Ukraine treated our animals like family members. That cow and hog dinner cooked for them smelled so good I wanted to plant my face in it myself.
My grandfather even built a sun deck for the pigs. A sun deck.
We wanted them to be HAPPY and PLUMPY, and when it was time to get the household through the winter, the dispatching was done quickly.
Humane meat should be scarce and expensive. The problem is that it's hard to know whom to trust with the claims of humanely raised stock.