Reply #3: Do you believe it is morally justifiable to kill animals for food?

[bklyncowgirl]

If you do, believe that it is morally justifiable to kill animals for food, then Grandin's efforts to make food animals lives and deaths as humane as possible is a good thing.

If you believe that killing an animal for food is the moral equivalent of killing a human for food then she is, indeed, a mass killer.

I do believe that she does care for animals and her efforts to make food production more humane should be applauded.

My main concern is that while I believe that her techniques, if implemented correctly, would make the slaughter of animals more humane, when the ideal that an animal should go to its end without knowing what hit it, comes up against slaughterhouse production line deadlines, poorly trained workers and your basic corporate greed, these humane techniques are going down the kill chute with the cattle and end up in the waste pit.

Without vigilant regulation with real teeth in them, this is not going to happen. Unfortunately, the last place that anyone who actually cared about animals would want to work (myself included, I have to be honest) is a slaughterhouse.