A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for thousands of chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal Service truck for three days.
Delaware’s Department of Agriculture said it received a call earlier this month from USPS saying the Postal Service had an “undeliverable box of baby birds.” About 12,000 chicks had been shipped from the Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery to farms across the country.
State agricultural officials say that when they found the chicks at a USPS distribution center in Delaware, around 4,000 were dead.
Wouldn’t happen in a vegan world.
What do you think will happen to chickens, cows and other animals once we stop protecting them (for our consumption, but still)?
Mate you gotta have a fucked up definition of protection ngl.
These animals only exist in the first place because we breed them into existence. There are no wild factory farm chickens or cows or pigs.
If you are iffed about my reaction to the word “protection”, please watch Dominion and then tell me about where in the documentary animals are protected. Warning, it shows the entire factory farm animal life cycle including the gory bits.
Mate you gotta have a fucked up definition of protection ngl.
Yes, protecting your food or income is still a protection, even if it sounds fucked up when talking about animals.
These animals only exist in the first place because we breed them into existence.
Mate, this was literally my point. You’re crying about few dead thousand, but want a genocide.
If you are iffed about my reaction to the word “protection”, please watch Dominion and then tell me about where in the documentary animals are protected
Watched it years ago, but I’m pretty sure I saw walls, fences and everything else necessary to protect them from other animals killing them young.
I fully understand it’s a fucked up situation, but the extreme changes you want to do will end up even more fucked up, we should just really let it run it’s natural cycle because lab meat is rapidly becoming widely available and will outcompete farming animals.
Note that I hardly eat meat, mostly when offered and not wanting to say no, but I’m trying to stay objective on this whole mess
Mate, this was literally my point. You’re crying about few dead thousand, but want a genocide.
Wait, so not artificially breeding more individuals of a species is a genocide? Is it genocide when a guy jizzes into a sock too? Come on, don’t be ridiculous.
lab meat
Lab meat has been around the corner about as long as a fully self driving tesla which totally, absolutely will happen in two weeks, promise.
The fact is, we don’t need to eat animals, we do it for (taste) pleasure and everything done to those animals should be viewed through this lense. Saying “I will just wait for lab meat” is a cheap excuse at best.
we don’t need to eat animals
maybe you don’t. you don’t know what anyone else needs
Nah that’s not how it works. We all need nutrients and as long as those nutrients can be consumed in a bioavailable form it doesn’t matter (for the body) where they come from.
Edit: just saw your profile and you seem to be a rage troll so I won’t be engaging further with you. Byee
you seem to be a rage troll
calling me names doesn’t change the truth of what I’m saying
you aren’t my doctor or my nutritionist. you don’t know what I need, or anyone else.
and people need more than nutrients
You’re definitely using the word genocide incorrectly here. A genocide would imply that the other commenter wants us to kill all farm animals right now, when in reality what they’re saying is that they want us to stop artificially breeding them, meaning not creating new life. As for the animals that already exist, yeah ideally we’d find some way to help them live their lives out, but realistically this change isn’t gonna happen in one day, it’s gonna take years, and as we reduce artificial insemination these animals will stop existing and so this issue of having all of these animals around won’t be real.
This is the equivalent of using a condom, not the equivalent of shooting someone in the face.
this is a plan that would lead eventually to the total destruction of the species. it’s genocide
Wrong word again. You mean extinction. A complete genocide of a species is a subset of extinction but extinction is not equal to or a subset of genocide.
choosing a course of action that results surely in extinction is genocidal
Before you dislike this comment I want you to consider the objective logic here.
This situation, and literally billions like it are happening every year for one single reason, people enjoy (not need) consuming animal products. As a vegan I am actively trying to stop these situations, if you are not vegan, what are doing for these animals? What are you doing for the billions of others that die each day in horrendous ways?
If you truly care, consider the bigger picture, and consider your own hand in it as a consumer of the product of violence.
These facts might be harsh, and I don’t intend to harm you, I hope you can see that these are just facts, not insults.
you don’t know what others need
True but kind of removing the context of my message. The context is that the average person in a developed country does not need to consume any animal products to live a healthy life. This is factual based on our best scientific understanding of nutrition and the options present for the average person in a developed country.
you can’t know what others need
