The factories are very dangerous places to work and most workers, hired specifically by the companies are undocumented citizens. These people feel that because they don’t have the proper papers for work, they don’t have proper rights, so they complain less about unsatisfactory working conditions. By supporting these huge companies we are not only harming the animals rights but we are allowing these companies to treat their employees with the same lack of respect as they have for the animals. I would now like to go on and explore an alternative meat processing industry, the organic one. People nowadays know that eating organic is usually better, not only does it taste better, but it is more beneficial for the environment, our health, and ethically.
They had to provide food and supplies for their families, protect themselves against danger, and still leave room for church and leisurely activities. One of the biggest differences from their life in England was that the colonist would now have to grow and supply their own food. They would be farming on their land and have to take care of their own crops. They learned what crops would grow best and how to take care of them from the local Indians. Without that help the colonist might have never survived because it was something they were not used to having to do, or even something they really even knew how to do.
But not a lot of people pay attention to what happens behind the scenes. There has to be a cost to every benefit, whether it may be good or bad. In this case, it cost many tortured animals for farmers and food companies to become powerful and billion dollar industries. There seems to be no balance for these industries because they have sacrificed their ethics for profit. In one part of the video, I was glad to see that there are farmers out there who are willing to treat their cattle and herds ethically even if they were farming them.
A small population must cover a large area because of the constant search for food. Farming has allowed civilizations to live more condensed very comfortably. Farming, in my opinion, is one of the smartest decisions in human history. Humans have been able to advance in technology for quicker because of it. The increasing population of the Earth can be supported because more people can live in a smaller
Living continuously and being healthy in the area became more of a hardship around the same time as the sicknesses started increasing. Though normally a sustainable lifestyle in America is very easy because of the many lands suitable for cultivation, the recent events of the colony made it impossible to work the lands. Richard Frethorne describes the food: “A mouthful of bread must serve our men which is pitiful”. A recent scientific
The feeding of a breed of an animal to another of the same breed is not uncommon as well. These practices can hardly be considered just or appropriate. Many of these animals die long before they are ever old enough or big enough to be used as food. It would make more sense to breed fewer animals, which therefore would allow for them to live in a healthier environment, eat correctly, and then live on serving their purpose. By the Replacability Argument, by killing these non self-conscious beings, that had been living good lives, we are lessening the amount of good in the world.
In a foraging society, they had to hunt and gather their own food which was a big disadvantage because that means they had to constantly be moving around because one area could not keep a society alive for a whole lifetime. In an urbanized society, they grew their own food so they could settle in one area. Being in a foraging society was very difficult because they could not get large amounts of food each day and they could not settle in one area. After they got all the food in that area, they had to move somewhere that had enough food to support them for a while which could be hard to find. Being able to settle in one area like an urbanized society was a big advantage.
Their lack in technology advancements help them back from growing their population to a greater number. So much work had to go into harvesting their crops and they were unable to store things for a long period of time. Their daily work of harvesting food was all they had time for, it's how they were able to survive. Jared says' "Highland agriculture was based on crops like these taro roots, which are very different from cereal crops. Taro is much more work.
Diamond mentions on page 107 that a possible ideology that many people that knew about the processes of farming were thinking was, “Shall I spend today hoeing my garden (predictably yielding a lot of vegetables several months from now), gathering shellfish (predictably yielding a little meat today), or hunting deer (yielding possibly a lot of meat today, but more likely nothing)?” Humans and animals are always prioritizing by availability and preferability of food choices. Availability played a key role because as wild game was hunted, its numbers depleted and became harder to hunt, offering less possibility of a decent payoff. This is possibly why in central and southeastern Europe the hunter-gatherer lifestyle became less effective, thus being a less likely life
Wild beasts were tamed as work animals or kept for their meat and hides. Because their fields and flocks could supply most of their wants, a settled life in villages became possible; people were no longer compelled to move on endlessly in search of food, as their food-gathering ancestors had done for countless generations. Early peoples relied on information transmitted by word of mouth. But as cultures became increasingly