Basically the humane claims at Whole Foods were nothing more than a gigantic scam; nothing more than effective, yet baseless, marketing. I’m usually not a gullible person, but props to Whole Foods for getting me good.
I saw what "humane meat" was firsthand with my own eyes and realized I made a gigantic error, morally and intellectually.
A mother cow and her baby at one of the first dairy farms I ever
visited, a small dairy farm in Texas that allows the mothers to stay
with their babies for around two weeks, which is two weeks longer
than the standard for all size dairy farms.
Like most humans, one of my favorite things to eat growing up was
cheeseburgers made from cow carcasses. Peering at the absurdly long
lines at fast food drive thrus wherever I go, I can see I’m not the
only human in the world who loves burgers. I probably ate hundreds
and hundreds of these dead body patties before I finally stopped for
good one night after I ate my last animal burger on my break at my
grocery store job . Burgers are still one of my favorite things to
eat, but it’s been nearly one-third of my life since I ate a burger
that contained ingredients from slaughterhouses. The last animal
burger I ever ate came from Whole Foods Market. In other words, the
last burger I ever ate came from a place that supplied “food" made
from animals who were treated far better and more responsibly than
the norm, or so I had thought.
I don’t miss anything at all about the animal-based burgers I used
to eat; I don’t miss eating patties that contained the mixed remains
of up to one thousand different cows, I don’t miss the constipation,
I don’t miss the blindness to what I was participating in, and I
don’t miss supporting something that runs so extremely counter to my
personal values and morals. I can say without a doubt that the top
best tasting burgers I’ve had in my life haven’t even been any
burgers that contained animal flesh, but some of the burgers that
were made strictly from plants. To this day, my favorite burger
joint is a plant-based restaurant called Meta Burger in Denver,
Colorado, please try it if you’re ever in the area and are one of
those humans who can actually go a meal without consuming death (I
know, such a sacrifice).
Had I been educated as a child on what my food options were or had I
been raised by parents who gave a damn about life forms that the
norm is to discriminate against and utterly disregard, maybe I would
have never even known the taste of these wildly popular death
patties, which would have been just fine. All I was taught about
cows as a child was that they make a “moo” sound and that they
“give” us milk and beef.
Nobody taught me the glorious fact that humans exterminated all
free-living natural cows and only allowed the cows who we
genetically altered to produce superfluous flesh and milk (and who
we could easily control) to keep living (well to be able to live for
us, not for themselves and their family). Cows make far more sounds
than just the basic “moo.” Nobody had taught me about the haunting
bellowing sounds mother cows make after their babies are abducted
from them on dairy farms or at livestock auctions, all so that their
calf nourishment can be unnaturally redirected for ourselves to
consume instead.
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Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.
Another pig at the DIY class killed directly in front of other
pigs. This is what humans consider humane? At least the animal
sadist was kind enough to pet the pig while she was dying.