The Charmed Life of Esther the Wonder Pig
I have huge respect for people who do this kind of work.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d be able to do it - go to these factory farms and see all the suffering and only be able to rescue a few animals. I can&#x27;t even watch Earthlings[0] - just one clip is enough and it paralyses me for days.<p>I just can&#x27;t understand why we continue to support the large scale meat industry (not talking about hunting or raising and killing your own animals).<p>Not only are factory farmed products not healthy for us, but it&#x27;s destroying the environment, creates unncessary suffering and even if you don&#x27;t care about animals, it&#x27;s also harmful to people working in that industry. Would you want to work in a slaughterhouse 8 hours a day - killing, gutting and hearing the screams of other sentient beings? What does that do to one&#x27;s psyche?<p>We (engineers, designers, etc) are problem solvers - so our community should better understand that supporting the large scale meat industry just doesn&#x27;t make sense anymore and instead we&#x27;d look to support alternative food sources[1] that are less desstructive on so many levels. Ethan Brown&#x27;s approach is great - he&#x27;s right, we won&#x27;t be able to change culture where meat consumption is totally ingrained - it&#x27;s better to offer an alternative that is as good or better as meat, but that doesn&#x27;t require us to continue these destructive ways.<p>I think people in the future[2] will look back at this time and just shake their head at how we could continue supporting an industry that kills 80Billion animals &#x2F; year just so we can have some short lived pleasure in our mouth (only real reason I can think of why we continue to eat meat - please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong) - the same way we shake our head at slavery, which was accepted by society in the past.<p>Holocaust survivor and founder of Farm - Dr Alex Hershaft[3] - compares how Nazis treated other ethnic groups to how we treat other species. To animals we are the Nazis.<p>Ultimately the question is, when it&#x27;s not necessary for survival - how do you humanely kill a sentient being that doesn&#x27;t want to be killed?<p>Just hope how we currently value other sentient beings won&#x27;t be an example for our future AI overlords of how to behave towards us.<p>[0] Earthlings
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;209647801" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;209647801</a><p>[1]Beyond Meat
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacity.ca&#x2F;video&#x2F;ethan-brown-beyond-meat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ideacity.ca&#x2F;video&#x2F;ethan-brown-beyond-meat&#x2F;</a><p>[2] Star Trek - &#x27;We no longer enslave animals for food purposes&#x27;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sS7NRtEJBcA?t=31s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;sS7NRtEJBcA?t=31s</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nonprofitchronicles.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;alex-hershaft-holocast-survivor-animal-advocate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nonprofitchronicles.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;05&#x2F;alex-hershaft-hol...</a><p>Edit: typos