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This is that lady who killed so many chickens in her hallway closet in the name of "witchcraft" that she had to use a sander to get the dried blood and offal out of the floorboards.
Given the number of chickens we slaughter in the US, this is a drop in the ocean.
Can't they both be fucked up?
Sure, if you're into animal rights.
But absent that context, it just sounds like she's guilty of practicing the wrong religion. Like, if she'd hosted a BBQ for her Christian church group with a bunch of dead chickens, who else would be complaining?
I am.
I don't give a shit what religion she's part of. Turning your hallway into a makeshift abbatoir is fucked up.
Better out-of-sight and out-of-mind, I guess.
There's a difference between the slaughter of animals for food, where it's a heavily regulated process by the USDA to ensure it's as safe, sanitary and humane as possible, and done for a reasonable purpose (feeding people) vs just killing chickens in your home because you think it'll enable you to perform magic
One of the funny things about regulation of the industrialized abattoirs is that the government is far more interested in regulating what you can film and report that on how the businesses actually behave.
The horror stories that come out of these facilities would make Upton Sinclair faint.
Funnily enough I actually work in the industry. I work at the corporate office of a national company that works in several hundred food processing facilities. I also married into a farming family. So I'm just close enough to the food industry to get a really good idea of just what goes down. The most damning thing I've learned is some facilities are terrible but most are pretty good.
One of my duties is managing the company's incident and claims database and while there's plenty of facilities which haven't had an accident in over a decade, there's some facilities that have a reportable accident daily. Every day there's someone who doesn't leave work in the same shape they arrived in. And the people working in these facilities are the most vulnerable people, the formerly encarcerated, immigrants and undereducated minorities. The people who work in these facilities often have no better options available to them.
This is why we need stronger regulatory bodies. Some facilities are dangerous and should not be open (this is across all food producing and processing facilities, not just meat processing plants. There's RTE (ready to eat, meaning you can literally pick up the food off the conveyor and safely eat it) facilities for example that need to be shut down due to terrible safety practices. There's farms that need to be shut down due to dangerous contamination on their crops. This isn't a problem of "meat bad" but a problem of some businesses not upholding basic food safety/safety/animal wellfare standards
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it
For positive change to occur in a specialized industry you need industry knowledge. Yes that introduces conflicts of interest that have to be managed, but to regulate an industry you have limited knowledge of will just lead to chaos and garbage legislation.
For me, I'm just the computer janitor. I keep the servers and computers running and get poked to create a lot of reports from the databases. I'm also at the corporate level where I get to hear a lot of tea regarding what goes on in the field and I'm occasionally invited on site visits so that I can know that I'm giving the folks I support the right tools to do their jobs. So I've got a decent idea of what goes on in the ground and in the field, but I'm also not beholden to the industry
Becoming an executioner because you oppose the death penalty is the punchline to a joke.
You're clearly not intested in actually having a conversation. I encourage you to learn where food comes from and the steps it takes between harvest and reaching the grocery store, since that's a massive supply chain on its own