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It's just sad seeing the dissonance between people who don't make the connection (or lack thereof) between simultaneously thinking "I have a dead, tortured animal on my plate" and "I'm a good person," especially when it's so easy to just not hurt animals.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. These behaviors are so normal because that contradiction is so commonplace.
I see the dead animal on my plate and still don't care. We eat meat. End of the story.
What pissess me off is how the animal ended as meat. Just let it move dammit. Take the cow for a walk daily or something, I don't care, but don't keep it confined 24/7.
Right, this is a very common mindset to have. There are two things to think about that come to mind for me:
First is that (almost) everyone thinks factory farming is bad, but around 75% of all land animals in animal agriculture are factory farmed. In the US, it's around 99.7%. In particular it's a very safe bet that if you eat a random chicken, while they were alive they were in abject misery.
Second is I think animals have an inherent right to life that we shouldn't infringe upon. I wouldn't suddenly think it's ok if someone shot and instantly killed a dog, even if they were loved their entire life and only had "one bad day." It also wouldn't make it ok if someone ate the dog afterwards, because that doesn't really matter to the dog. All animals want to live, and killing them unnecessarily is wrong.
I know most meat is factory made. It's simply most efficient method, animals be damned. Sad they can't lobotomize them first tho.
Second - if you kill to eat, that's okiedokie in my book. If you kill to defend, same. If you kill for sport, for funzies or to fuck around, next time you should be on the other side of the powder charge.
Now, however. I am slightly less empathetic than most folk, mainly working on logic, so, however horrible it seems, I don't feel horror or anything like that about the suffering. But it pisses me off we can do better today but we don't.