Yes that is where I tend to get hung up- if an animal is slaughtered, can it really be humane?
By standards, yes. Killing a cow by stunning it and beginning the process while it's alive versus a humane version done by a farmer who has raised the cow from birth is hardly debatable with regards to humaneness. However, I wonder slaughtering an animal in any way is humane. I mean...it's called slaughtering, not "rendering" or "processing" or "lovingly and respectfully taking life from the animal for human benefit."
Christian beliefs aside (and with respect to them), I wonder if any human could reasonably argue for this without using the belief that animals are simply and (ulitmately) solely here for human consumption.
Also, what meats are strictly off your lists? |