Then, if we actually had real, strict rules against animal abuse, the consumers would be the ones whinning about it, as they wouldn't be able to eat their KFC anymore.
I was debating which part of your post to address because I'm too used to people who talk like your post going on to say all meat is bad. (And they are probably the people who are knowingly buying tortured meat, if you ask me.)
With this one... still turns out better for the consumer in the end because I heard from an article about a few years ago that KFC hasn't caught up when it comes to their farms overusing antibiotics. Like, at a rate where I'm pretty sure it's causing the humans that eat the birds to overdose on them. I don't want to get too much into gross details but overdoses on antibiotics are most likely a big factor in a LOT of long-term diseases.
Or what should the law be ? "Torturing dogs is forbidden but torturing cows is allowed" ? Or "it is okay to heavily abuse an animal as long as you're eating it afterwards" ?
I think the main hangup I noticed with this one is "active cruelty" vs. "passive cruelty". I'd treat them as two different crimes. "Animal cruelty" laws tend to target the former, while the latter usually falls under "neglect" or "negligence"
It's the difference between a dog-fighting ring and a cat hoarder.
You could get these factory farms on both counts though, because with those farms, the overcrowding falls under "passive cruelty" and what counts as "active cruelty" is the rampant overfeeding necessary to grow the animals that quickly.
I've been reading up on slaughterhouses to see if I can find an extra cruelty there - the way those are SUPPOSED to work.... is more one-and-done and worryingly winds up the least cruel part of the process. There are enough expo
sés demonstrating meat processing facilities doing otherwise that someone could watch them for years without repeats.
I'm sorry but claiming to be against animal abuse while knowingly buying meat from tortured animals is quite hypocrite.
What's your suggestion for people who actually can't eat fruits and vegetables without serious health problems? As I'm getting worryingly close to that stage.
No seriously, not being able to avoid meat does NOT reduce the hypocrisy.