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Agree. It's also why I've been growing my own meat and poultry. I at least know for sure it's going to have a good life before making the ultimate sacrifice.
It produces better meat. Meat is the animals' muscles. If an animal is extremely stressed, their muscles are more tense. The meat gets tougher.
Pork isn't kosher anyway, of course, but killing an animal in a more humane way where the animal isn't as stressed produces better food.
It produces better meat. Meat is the animals' muscles. If an animal is extremely stressed, their muscles are more tense. The meat gets tougher.
Pork isn't kosher anyway, of course, but killing an animal in a more humane way where the animal isn't as stressed produces better food.
Religious requirements for meat are often made exempt from animal cruelty laws. Kosher and Halal meat have the animal bled out while alive to meet the religious standards. How much stress does a slit throat while hung upside down cause a large animal like sheep, goats and cows? Pneumatic kill guns (or rifles) to the head of a standing animal are very fast and humane kills.
The California laws in question are about the animal upbringing more than the slaughter.
Religious requirements for meat are often made exempt from animal cruelty laws. Kosher and Halal meat have the animal bled out while alive to meet the religious standards. How much stress does a slit throat cause an animal?
I don't know, but the animals are kept in good conditions until the animal is killed. A lifetime of stress versus one short moment is quite different.
As much as I hate California’s waxky politics. I can’t leave it.
I have family and friends in CA too but the economics of living there was a dealbreaker, before I even go to the realm of the waxky politics (the two are inextricably linked though). I like nice things and they cost money. Can't have nice things when I'm spending 70% of my income paying someone else's mortgage
As for these pig rules, if there was a market for that kind of pork, someone somewhere would have filled it, I bet at a much higher price than normal pork, and made a killing. But to mandate it is patently ridiculous and accomplishes nothing but raise the cost of food.
For the record, I eat organic and grass-fed and pasture-raised (whatever those terms mean) wherever possible (and so does my cat) and the eggs in my fridge are either free range or organic. But for me, it's a matter of taste, and I can afford it lol. Has nothing to do with any kind of virtue signaling. Not everyone's as fortunate.
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