This year's whaling season "deadliest in years"

[Saint Frankenstein]

They exist because humans have bred them. Forcefully.

Yes, we domesticated and bred them for food.

 

[Secret Chief]

Yes, we domesticated and bred them for food.

That's right. And if we stopped breeding them there would be no issue of them running wild and causing environmental damage. There is one species causing major environmental damage, but it isn't the ox. Is culling the solution?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

That's right. And if we stopped breeding them there would be no issue of them running wild and causing environmental damage. There is one species causing major environmental damage, but it isn't the ox. Is culling the solution?

Obviously I'm not going to support mass murder.

 

[syo]

Source?

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2016/SmallFamilyFarms.pdf
I found this. Small farms I guess are not like factories and logically they have the smallest profit.

 

[Secret Chief]

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2016/SmallFamilyFarms.pdf
I found this. Small farms I guess are not like factories and logically they have the smallest profit.

Indeed. Small ones are prevalent globally but the trend is for increasing size (which leads to lower welfare standards).

"Large farm operations constitute less than half of all farms in the United States. Yet these farms is expected to continue to rise. Experts who watch the farm industry closely anticipate such farms will experience growth and income of about 9.3 percent when compared to the previous year."

- Trends Transforming The Agriculture Industry Outlook in 2020 | Linchpin SEO

 

[Secret Chief]

"Much US meat is produced on an industrial scale, with conditions as bad as those in the chicken sheds. In particular, hormones, steroids and antibiotics are regularly used to make animals bigger and faster, and to prevent them getting ill in the unnaturally close conditions in which they are kept. Many cows and pigs never see sunlight, walk freely or eat grass. Many of the chemicals used are bad for us too – antibiotic overuse is threatening to make these vital drugs useless, and to bring down a pillar of modern medicine. Another chemical, ractopamine, is regularly fed to industrially farmed pigs in the US, despite making the animals collapse, turn aggressive, suffer liver and kidney dysfunction, and even die. But it probably affects humans too, which is why not just the EU but also Russia and China have banned this dangerous chemical, as well as US pork that contains it."


- Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now.