I'm glad meat is becoming unaffordable.

Well Iowa is a shithole and a backwater. It’s basically Missouri.

Since learning about Peter Singer's ideas admittedly late (this year) I cannot find any moral justification to eat meat. We all probably should have switched to vegetarianism a long time ago. If not on ethical grounds, at the very least for the sake of our planet. After all why kill and torture things that can feel pain and have sentience if we could live just as well on plants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer

Non Imgur image?

What is it now?

I see we're being pretty liberal with the word "factory farm" here.

A decent chunk of the animals represented here are cows in pastures. If you ever drive through Iowa you'll see dozens of them sun bathing on a hillside several times per mile.

Turns out if you don't let them chill comfortably they get pretty pissy, and at roughly 1000 pounds, one pissy cow is a problem. Half again more so for a bull. Imagine a herd of pissed off 1000 pound animals in a barn, and you'll see why "factory farms" are generally just large pastures of lots of cows. Kinda the same for the pigs.

A lot of these though are chickens, which, I mean yeah it's as bad as it sounds when we're talking about chickens.