{"id":772634,"date":"2023-05-31T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=772634"},"modified":"2023-05-31T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T12:48:43","slug":"karen-davis-animal-liberation-now-nothing-to-crow-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=772634","title":{"rendered":"FLEXIBLE VEGANISM: ‘Animal Liberation Now’, nothing to crow about"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Contrary to Peter Singer\u2019s pie in the sky argument, there is no such thing as 'animals killed painlessly and without suffering' on a farm. What farm have you heard of that gives a painkilling medication to the animals before sticking a knife in their throats? Can\u2019t think of any.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

KAREN DAVIS:<\/strong> While Peter Singer’s new book is said to include updates on the advancing technological assaults on farmed animals and recent cognitive science on certain animals hitherto deemed insentient, his current \u201crecommendations\u201d suggest that his own advocacy for animals has not advanced since 1975 and may even have regressed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prime example: from The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

Q. Conscientious omnivores oppose factory farming but continue to eat animal products from farmers who treat their animals well and don\u2019t subject them to suffering. Do they get a pass?<\/em><\/p>\n

A. Honestly, I can\u2019t show that they are wrong. Assume that the cows wouldn\u2019t have existed if they weren\u2019t going to be sold for their meat and the conscientious omnivores investigate how their food is produced, and can be confident that the animals really do have good lives and are killed painlessly and without suffering \u2013 then I think they do get a pass. They\u2019re allies in the movement against factory farming, and a world of conscientious omnivores would produce much less meat and dairy products, with vastly less suffering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who are these \u201cconscientious omnivores\u201d exactly, and what, in specific terms, does \u201ctreat their animals well\u201d mean? The \u201cconscientious omnivore,\u201d on whom most have presumably modeled themselves, is Michael Pollan \u2013 no moral hero whatsoever, more of a sadist and mean-spirited ignoramous, where farmed animals are concerned…<\/em><\/p>\n

Contrary to Peter Singer\u2019s pie in the sky, there is no such thing as \u201canimals killed painlessly and without suffering\u201d on a farm. There never was, isn\u2019t now, never will be. What farm have you heard of that gives a painkilling medication to the animals before sticking a knife in their throats? Or that medicates them or provides veterinary care and treatment when one of the farm\u2019s chickens or goats or pigs gets sick? Can\u2019t think of any?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do we who call ourselves animal advocates consider people who kill animals for the human palate and for profit \u201cour allies\u201d?… And if, indeed, the chicken or turkey, say, is enjoying a happy life, how does morality justify killing him or her years before he or she would have otherwise lived and thrived? This is not euthanasia. This is cold-blooded killing. This is raw economics, not ethics or empathy or respect for the life and feelings of a fellow creature who wants to live and is not ready to die. (\u201cBut you\u2019re gonna die, chicken, because my bottom line is more important than your life.\u201d)…<\/em><\/p>\n

What I am urging by posing these few, simple yet vital questions is that people who honestly care about animals think about what they are subscribing to before deciding upon Peter Singer\u2019s vision of \u201canimal liberation.\u201d Hopefully they will have second thoughts and decide we owe more \u2013 much more \u2013 to our fellow beings in chains than this low, uninspired bar of \u201cliberation”. <\/em>SOURCE…<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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