I'm sorry if sometimes I let my emotions get the best of me and it sounds like I think I'm better than anyone but I just don't understand how other people can't be angered by the abuse that goes on.
You're expecting people to value the items you value, as much as you value them, after approaching the topic under conversation with your point of view. You disallow the possibility that other people may have a coherent world view which places values on other traits- in fact, you write off anyone with a different world view as "close-minded", because they won't agree with yours.
The essence of being open-minded is understanding that there are thought processes out there different than your own, and not necessarily
accepting the viewpoints those processes lead to, but understanding that those viewpoints may have been formed through a logical deliberation that you are not familiar with.
Your thought process on the topic of animals as food has gone as followed: you are upset by how some portions of the meat industry work, and believe that if people just see the same things you've seen, they'll join your cause.
This is the peril of the moral activist. They assume everyone will have the same emotional reaction they will, and assume that everyone will believe whatever information they provide, because it was convincing to them. You came into this thread
expecting people to have this immediate, gut-wrench reaction to your post- so much that you entitled it "Everyone Should Open This Thread". (With a thread title like
that, you might as well have just made "Kick Me" your signature.)
I have my own opinions why feedlots make sense, while on an emotional level, I don't have to
like them. I'd have to discuss economics with you however, we'd have to have a conversation about world food politics and food per energy per acre formulas, and honestly I don't see that conversation being too productive.
The reason why I brought up my experience with watching my roasting pig be slaughtered is this. You came to this thread with the assumption that the reason that people wouldn't agree with you is because they simply didn't know how their food got to their plate. I gave you a vivid example of my experience watching my dinner come from living animal to face steak, because I have accepted moral responsibility for my diet, long before you ever came along. Life feeds on life. It's the nature of living.
And enough with the "kill with your hands and teeth" bullshit,
please. Humans evolved into the apex predator because they were able to use tools and their intellect, not because we became good at crushing or clawing. Some of us did, at least.
