I&#x27;ll take the way I&#x27;ve seen pigs and cows slaughtered when it comes time for me.  Getting fed out of a nice trough of grain and never seeing the sledgehammer coming down is far more humane than getting your veins pumped full of nitrogen mustard and getting zapped with radiation for months.<p>Chemotherapy for terminal cancers should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.<p>Meat is tasty.  It&#x27;s a pain in the ass to raise and deal with those damn animals, and we wouldn&#x27;t bother with them if they weren&#x27;t good to eat or produced milk or eggs that are useful.  The evolutionary forebears of the horse and the cow are extinct or well on the way there in the wild.<p>Maybe more people should have the experience of slaughtering a pig or steer, dressing it out, hanging it, then cutting it up.  It&#x27;s a great biology lesson, you&#x27;ll learn which cuts of meat come from where, and you&#x27;ll become very suspicious of supermarket meat (hint - real hamburger is not bright red like that).