foreigngrammar wrote:Metallikid wrote:spikeslovechild wrote:
Once again there are standards for how meat is butchered in the united states. There are standards of how it is prepared in most other developed nations as well. Hell even China I assume has some basic standards as well at least for the products they wish to export which would be enforced by the CFDA.
Here are the FDA guidelines: https://www.fda.gov/media/110822/download
There are none at the wet market it's the wild-wild west and more to the point they are selling animals that are not commonly consumed so there is no tracking of what is happening out in the wild as it relates to diseases in the animal food chain. The other poster mentioned there are many potential pandemics that we aren't even aware of that is because for the most part the system works and the diseased animals are removed from the supply chain before it gets to this point . It's a large part of the reason why we still don't know to this day WHAT animal caused the pandemic I mean we now the bat was the likely source but we still don't know the intermediary think of how frighting that is? China needs to change it's medieval practices or be isolated from the world community. It really is that simple.
The standards allow for horrible living conditions and terrible treatment. Have you ever seen video from inside industrial chicken farms? Pig farms? They're living in awful, cramped, filthy conditions where diseases spread and mutate and then by interacting with workers or transporters, that's what causes animal-to-human transmission.
They need space to live and have a life. They need to be treated better than mere commodities, because they aren't. They're living creatures that feel pain and sadness, and they are killed in the millions for our nourishment. It's time to give them the respect they deserve and give them better lives - otherwise another pandemic will happen again, and next time it could be an American one.
I hope by the time we have gotten through this crisis that you will see some merit to my position and be a part of pushing for BETTER STANDARDS for yourself and your family and everyone else's. In the end the benefits would greatly outweigh the costs. From better quality meat with more nutrition, to eating less animal fats and red meat which will help reduce a myriad a diseases that are prevalent across the western world, to significantly aiding the fight against climate change as animal agriculture is the #1 cause of greenhouse gases, we have much to gain from lowering consumption and improving quality and standards significantly.
So true! Thank you!
The state of a society is shown on how we treat animals.
It says a lot. This time it comes from a crappy animal market (lousy excuses for having such exotic animals - upper class with their weird blabla for stamina and boners) but it could very well be a european swine farm or argentinian cattle farm.
JUST EAT LESS MEAT!
But people are so stubborn and rather fat and ill than wise.
It disgusts me. And I am no vegetarian... but to eat meat once or twice a week sure is enough. Trust me. You won't starve or die immediately. Maybe in 50 or 80 years from now
Unfortunately not everyone would choose or be able to stick to eating meat only once or twice a week so I think it would be a lot more effective to DEMAND CHANGE and improve standards to the point that there is less meat available, but that what is available is of an extremely high quality.
Better standards for animal feed so there's no animal products in it, applying animal cruelty laws to livestock so they can't just be beaten and killed by workers, mandating that each animal needs a certain amount of space, some time outside that resembles a natural life if possible (sans predators), and quick, painless deaths.
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
