[quote=mdk]
I don't know if there's a 'nice' way to run a slaughterhouse. People eat meat. Don't lose sleep over it.
[/quote]

Eh'. We could be a little more humane if just because from a coldly logical point of view, sticking millions of animals in conditions arguable worse than Africa and then [i]getting surprised[/i] when diseases run rampant that kill thousands of them nonstop and develop at alarming rates because they have the perfect environment for it... Well... Hm... We really shouldn't be.

It's in our own self interest to treat them at least a little better. I mean, granted, most of these species require direct human intervention to survive at this point, and hunting is also used as a cheap method for crowd control (else deer would [i]fucking overrun everything[/i] with the rabbits), so... More balance would be best. Outright banning these things or disposing of them is sheer folly, but on the other hand, treating them like garbage and then being surprised when a good portion of them do turn out to basically be made of garbage that is as unhealthy for us as it was for them... Uhm... Hm. That's problematic.

Plus, if we're going to raise and kill porky, the least we can do is let porky have a halfway decent life before we stick a knife in his head and send his body through a nightmare factory so the rest of us can eat his delicious, delicious guts... Mmm... Bacon... :lol