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16 Nov ’14 - 2:00 pm
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if so, tell me about it

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Reason I ask is I came across this article, and it really struck home with me, I kind of understand where he is coming from.

Farm Confessional: I Raise Livestock and I Think It May Be Wrong

 

Bob Comis raises around 500 pigs a year at Stony Brook Farm in Schoharie, NY, aspiring to the highest possible welfare standards. But Comis has his doubts. In a post called “It Might be Wrong to Eat Meat,” he summarized his ethical dilemma in a sentence: “This morning, as I look out the window at a pasture quickly growing full of frolicking lambs, I am feeling very much that it might be wrong to eat meat, and that I might indeed be a very bad person for killing animals for a living.”

Comis talked to Modern Farmer about the self-doubt he feels while raising animals for slaughter and his desire to see humanity evolve into a species that does not kill to eat.

I have no farming background. I was born and raised in the suburbs, and I spent more time in a shopping mall playing video games and eating fast food than I did outside. “Animals” meant cats and dogs. Of course I knew the McDonalds hamburger I ate came from a cow, but that cow had no real existence for me. It wasn’t until I started farming that livestock animals became real and individuated. And that’s when my ethical struggle began.

I pursued a PhD in political philosophy for a number of years. I focused on postmodernist and poststructuralist philosophies, and this and identity, power and symbolization are very much at the root of my ethical crises.

 

more http://modernfarmer......may-wrong/

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I hear you KVR. I remember the first time my dad and I butchered chickens and turkeys; we felt pretty bad afterwards. Raising something with the strict intention of killing it for food later is indeed a difficult task to balance. Personally, I think it is ok to raise livestock with this intention, but it is nevertheless always humbling to accept that an animal gave up life to feed you. 

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well said Jon

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16 Nov ’14 - 7:21 pm
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as a funny side note, a vid from the same group that did the one on @*&%#* Farming

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more detailed article

http://www.salon.com.....ig_farmer/

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the more it goes, the less farm raised meat i eat.

I eat more eggs, tofu and seitan. Almost all the meat i eat these days is wild game (moose and goose).

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