That just seems to indicate buying pork from humane producers?
https://support.butcherbox.com/hc/en-us/articles/11501571308...
Any suggestions? Particularly something that doesn't require me to live within 20 miles of you.
Or grow your own.
Aside from how they die, pigs are pretty intelligent animals, and I think an adult pig is similar in mental capacity to a 6 yr old or higher.
If they lived better fulfilling lives and died peacefully I might feel like I could eat pork. But not at the moment.
Actually it becomes a rabbit-hole. I then discovered how baby male chicks are killed...
At the moment I feel like eating meat requires a mental disconnect from the suffering if the animal and what we think is ok, and the act of eating food.
Either way, I'm basically vegetarian these days. I'll pay for something someone promises me is really organic acorn fed pork or some kind of super happy cow, but I'm not even really sure how much I believe that anymore.
Venison, however, I think is basically guilt free. It's never farmed (at least, where I am from) and it tastes better than beef..
[1] https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/bad-news-venison-eater...
Yes, but only for sociopaths who can not feel guilt.
I live in a rural area, farmland and timber. Hunters come for deer in season, whenever that was. Coming home at a certain time in the evening, I always seemed to interrupt some does and fawns crossing the road in the same place, so I know to be cautious and drive slow. But lately it had seemed to me that I never see any deer, which is unusual. Two weeks ago, I'm out early at sunup, I turn a corner, and I see about 40 fawns in a field, they all look up at me at the same time, then dart across the field. There isn't one there that's more than a year old. No deer, just a large amount of fawns. So this last season the hunters apparently killed every deer in the area. All that are left are the fawns, dozens and dozens of them, motherless. Seeing all those fawns was the saddest thing I have witnessed in recent memory.
Hunting is not good, and those that hunt, suck, for the needless killing for sport, but also for their extreme, unbounded entitlement. If someone can't enjoy themselves without killing something, there is something terribly wrong with them. But with any luck, they'll all die of rectal cancer.
I believe we can't detect C0 and things like N0 so they just straight up kill you once you pass out from oxygen deprivation
I come from a shellfish village, and we would do our lobsters this way all my life -- we would put them in headfirst which I guess maybe slightly reduces the time they suffer (although -- personally -- when I am doing it, I kill them with a knife to the brain before they go into the water these days)..
But octopus? How horrifying.
Pigs have always received better treatment, even though they often receive terrible treatment. Octopi are served live in some places still.