Raw can be delicious. If ever deployed to Lebanon, try Kibbeh Nayyeh made from goat or lamb on fresh Syrian bread, with olive oil and a slice of onion.
When I was at kid, I use to eat raw hamburger meat, and I still do from time to time, and I'm 64. I haven't been sick from eating raw hamburger meat so far.
I love that people put in the hard work and efforts to provide clean, nutricious food for comsumption! We need to come back to this as a society for the betterment of all. One question I have is how much gummint interferrence(FDA) to you as a farmer experience? I've heard stories of them destroying folks' lives because they want to control what they're producing.
@@thenorthidahoexperience Pigs are so similar to dogs. They are the highly intelligent beings, even more so than a dog or cat. Pigs are actually the 4th most intelligent animal on Earth. Pigs love belly rubs! Have you ever seen a dog fall on their back, just begging for a tummy rub? Well - pigs do the same! Pigs love having playtime, much like you may have seen your canine companions do! Considering pigs have a social disposition and intelligence, it’s only logical they have playful hearts also. They also love sunbathing, learning tricks and new adventures. Just like dogs, they get bored and depressed being in enclosed areas their entire lives. People who take the time to really learn about pigs realize that they are living, breathing, and feeling beings who want to live their lives out free from suffering, just like dogs and cats do. The biggest difference between pigs and dogs is the way we treat them! Despite the fact that pigs are highly intelligent, sentient beings who feel stress, fear and pain every bit as much as we do, they are regarded in terms of being a food product.
A few things I want to say - First of all, what part of killing is humane? There are quicker ways of killing but killing is not humane. Secondly, Animals don't give their lives. We take their lives from them forcibly, violently while the animal struggles to not be killed just like a dog would or any person would for that matter. Seth, I can hear the compassionate part of you trying get through but then you are afraid let that compassion come out because cruelty to animals is the norm in our society and you probably don't want to be different from your friends and family. Kindness and compassion is a natural instinct for all of us but we are taught to suppress those instincts because cruelty to animals has been normalized in our culture. People have been desensitized to animal suffering and brainwashed into thinking that it's ok to harm and kill animals. Do the right thing. Don't be afraid to be kind and compassionate towards animals.
Read the Holy Bible. Animals were given to us by our creator to be sustinence for our survival. Dispatching them for processing is not cruel on any level.
@@PB-jk8bl If you are going to discuss an issue other than religion, you should leave religion out of the conversation as not everyone is the same religion but if you must go there, then you should watch a documentary called Christspiracy. There is also a theory that the Bible actually wants humans to be stewards over animals. To look after them and protect them not to do anything that we want to them. And we don't need to eat animal products to survive and in fact eating animal products contributes to many diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease. I haven't eaten meat in 41 years and I haven't eaten eggs or dairy in 34 years and I'm very healthy. If one is given the choice to contribute to animal cruelty or not contribute to animal cruelty but still live either way why would one choose to be cruel to animals. And dispatch is just a A euphemism for kill. It's meant to make people feel ok about the horrible things they do.
What you are saying is a fallacy of unwarranted assumption. First, these farmed animals would never have been born in the wild; they are artificially bred into existence specifically to be exploited on farms. Animal agriculture is not some heroic intervention into “tooth and claw” nature whereby farmed animals are rescued from a horrible death that would have been far worse than the pseudo-benevolent slaughter they experience at human hands. These animals are not being rescued or saved or “protected from predators”; they are bred by humans to be killed by humans without a fighting chance. Another variation of this argument goes: “Factory farming is wrong, but “pastured,” “free range,” “humanely raised” (etc.) animals on small farms have a much better life than they would in nature. Therefore we are justified in eating them.” But again the same point applies that animals on small farms have been forcibly bred into existence and would not otherwise exist “in the wild.” The hypothetical nature scenario is a false premise and does not justify our needless breeding, exploitation and killing of animals for food. Secondly, many of the worst cruelties inflicted on animals in factory farms are also routine practices on small, so-called humane farms, including castration, horn removal and ear cutting, all without painkiller or anesthesia; sexual violation and forced impregnation; destruction of families and separation of babies from their mothers; and a long, miserable transport in all temperature extremes to a painful and terrifying slaughter. Even in the best case scenarios, farmed animals are denied their liberty, their bodily and reproductive autonomy, and many of their most basic natural instincts and preferences. Even on small, so-called humane farms, animals have no control over the most important aspects of their lives. Consider that the following is true for all animals on all farms: “Humans decide where they will live; if they will ever know their mothers; if, and how long, they will nurse their babies; when, and if, they will be permitted to see or be with their families and friends; when, where, or if they will be allowed to socialize with members of their own species; when, how, and if, they are going to reproduce; what, when, and how much they will eat; how much space they will have, if any; if, and how far, they will be allowed to roam; what mutilations they will be subjected to; what, if any, veterinary care they will receive; and when, where, and how they are going to die.” (Lucas, Joanna) If these indignities formed the circumstance of your brief and unfree life, at the end of which you would be forcefully restrained, attacked and slaughtered against your will, at only a fraction of your natural lifespan, and all for completely unnecessary reasons - would you maintain that you had been humanely treated? The affirmation and protection of other’s dignity is a core principle of what we understand as ethical treatment of others. The “better off than in nature” argument, then, fails as a moral justification for farming animals not only because it begins with a false premise, but also because it fails to acknowledge the many existential dignities that animals who are farmed are robbed of as compared to free-living animals.
