I'm not sure why you would refer to that as human like. Animals have been around before humans did in this world. Shouldn't it be referred to as animal's survival instinct like reaction when people carry bear spray when go hiking in the wild?
You could be right that most people are disconnected as regards where their meat comes from and how it is raised and slaughtered. Perhaps the ignorance, for whatever reason, is a generational and/or urban thing. A more widespread knowledge can only be a good thing and hopefully bring about a change for the better.
Regards the video, I see idiots behaving idiotically and cruelly whilst being film by idiots.
Regards the video, I see idiots behaving idiotically and cruelly whilst being film by idiots.
scottjoplin,
I suspect the disconnect started to occur during the Industrial Revolution when we were switching from a mostly agrarian society to an industrial one which isolated people from farm life. The finale was the Big-Box grocery store with prepackaged meat. (Mom, where does meat come from? Silly child, it comes from the grocery store. )
I grew up in a time when my family would slaughter it's own meat. My mother's side of the family was farmers in GA, and they raised hogs and chickens. I was taught to process a chicken, and watched hogs slaughtered and processed. I have never seen a cow slaughtered but I expect the procedure to be the same.
In my fathers family, my Grandfather was a butcher, back in the day when a small town butcher had his own meat locker.
By the time I was 3, I was taught how to fish, and clean the fish. By the time I was 8 I was given a shotgun and taught how to hunt.
I have no qualms about what I eat. I do have problems with "Trophy Hunters" and Poachers.
I suspect the disconnect started to occur during the Industrial Revolution when we were switching from a mostly agrarian society to an industrial one which isolated people from farm life. The finale was the Big-Box grocery store with prepackaged meat. (Mom, where does meat come from? Silly child, it comes from the grocery store.
)I grew up in a time when my family would slaughter it's own meat. My mother's side of the family was farmers in GA, and they raised hogs and chickens. I was taught to process a chicken, and watched hogs slaughtered and processed. I have never seen a cow slaughtered but I expect the procedure to be the same.
In my fathers family, my Grandfather was a butcher, back in the day when a small town butcher had his own meat locker.
By the time I was 3, I was taught how to fish, and clean the fish. By the time I was 8 I was given a shotgun and taught how to hunt.
I have no qualms about what I eat. I do have problems with "Trophy Hunters" and Poachers.
since pain and cognitive ability are associated with a nervous system and plants lack nervous systems, how can they have feelings?
Yes, I missed them. I do not come to this forum to have people select a zillion youtubes for me to watch. I can find plenty on my own.
But that avoids the issue. Plants have feelings too.
They just do not express themselves in a way that is easily recognizable by people.
Hook the plant up to an EEG and you can see their response, or use an fMRI.
You can also see them move away from you if you use a time lapse photography.
That would be them moving towards the light. We could do with some light relief
A problem here is that we are more likely to project our feelings into animals which we perceive as more like us, thus, potentially feeding into a speciesist narrative.
I was asking about your post if there is a difference between "urge" and "day-to-day urge".
Health and safety, hygiene, has put a stop to that now?
Found this Schools abandon dissection in Biology lessons over health and safety fears - Telegraph
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