• Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I just buy from a local farmer. 1/2 cow and 1/2 pig feed my family for a year.
    To get the same amount of meat from a commercial butcher it’d take probably hundreds of not thousands of animals.

    Pigs are the only animal I struggle with eating, morally. Cows are gentle but really dumb and I don’t have moral issues about eating birds.

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      2 months ago

      What do you mean a commercial butcher will need thousands of animals to produce the same amount of meat as a half cow locally? I haven’t heard an argument that a little meat from a bunch of animals is ethically any different than a lot of meat from one animal, just curious.

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      2 months ago

      Pigs are the only animal I struggle with eating, morally.

      Yeah, they’re pretty intelligent and emotionally aware, at least as much as your average dog.