To put &quot;humane&quot; slaughter in a good perspective.<p><i>&quot;My life experience has given me a better understanding of what is happening, and what a mistake it is to believe there is anything called &quot;humane&quot; slaughter. Animals have families and feelings, and to think that kindness before killing them is an answer is totally wrong. ...<p>There is always fear in their eyes. They know exactly what is going to happen. So for anyone to claim there is such a thing as humane slaughter, well, that&#x27;s the greatest oxymoron in the world.&quot;</i> - Howard Lyman, former rancher<p>I also like this story:<p><i>I meet a woman in a club, buy her drinks, make her laugh, dance with her, she&#x27;s having the time of her life, we go to my place, I make her favorite dish, she drinks the best wine, music is playing, she feels absolutely great, sitting on couch, watching her favorite movie, meanwhile, she&#x27;s sipping that drink, that has date rape drug in it. She passes out, I rape her. Humanely. Next morning she feels a bit drowsy, she thinks it&#x27;s the alcholol, she smiles, says she felt perfect although she can&#x27;t remember the rest of the evening. I was gentle, she doesn&#x27;t feel raped.</i> John Doe, humane rapist<p>It is absolutely irrational to call slaughter humane. This rationalizing to make things morally right is the common mistake people make. It is a mistake in deduction and reasoning.<p>Some philosophers would probably say I&#x27;m a deontologist, and they would say that consequences of a deed make a deed wrong not that the deed itself is wrong - which is my opinion. Are there no consequences to massive animal slaughter and flesh consumption? Is waste of tax-payer&#x27;s money a consequence big enough, maybe climate change, massive pollution?<p>Any rational process, any non-laughable branch of philosophy will say that slaughter is immoral and that there&#x27;s nothing humane about it - and that humane is an adjective that cannot stand by it.<p>I have no problem with people eating meat, but people who rationalize it through appeal to nature, through skewing morals, that&#x27;s what I have a problem with.