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America is a factory. A money factory. Workers are exploited in virtually every industry to churn out as much product as possible as quickly as possible so that the bosses can increase profit margins and talk about productivity to the shareholders.
Just cogs in rich people's machines and machinations.
I thought the internet would help us overthrow our corporate masters but instead it's just shit posting and racist social media.
Are you sure this isn't just a way of distracting yourself from an atrocity against animals that you are participating in that you do not have to? Your choices are not inevitable.
Yes, I'm sure that American late-stage capitalism is not a way of distracting myself from animals being slaughtered for food.
What a silly question.
But you understand that American late-stage capitalism does not prevent you from conducting yourself in a way that is not cruel and violent towards farmed animals, right? It really seems like you are trying to make yourself think about a different subject so that you can avoid thoughts and emotions that you are unwilling to process. You would hardly be unique in that respect, you can witness people doing it every day.
To be clear, there is a moral imperative not to treat sentient creatures as property.
You're right. I'm not talking about the thing you want to talk about.
The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.
Louder for the speciesists in the back!
That’s why I eat beef instead of cow
That's why I eat as many children as cows
The china trade war destroyed small soybean farmers.
Large soybeans > small soybeans anyway.
factory farming is far more economically viable - real, in person/family farming is really hard work. most people cant do it unless they're born into a farming family & many choose not to continue. tractors, combines, etc are not cheap, and a bad year might ruin you financially. it's far simpler and easier for everyone (in the supply chain) to get a corporation to do the farming.
The choice isn't between multinational argocorp factory farms and suburban/urban neighborhoods each creating their own co-op and raising animals for food.
But setting that aside, your view of what's economically viable completely skips over the significant negative health impacts on society that American factory farming practices produce, and how those costs are borne in other areas of the economy.
And this is all just health and economic concerns, we haven't even touched the morality of the horrific conditions the animals are raised in, but frankly that just makes me really depressed so I'll leave that alone.
"Factory farming" refers specifically to industrial scale animal agriculture. Animal agriculture does not produce calories, it consumes them. It is a way of refining safe, cheap, sustainable plant products into harmful, expensive, addictive luxury products. Factory farming is not necessary to feed the country, it is a way of exploiting humans and non-human animals more effectively to grow capital.
then what terminology is used to refer to industrial scale agriculture in general? I've always used "factory farming" for corpo owned farms.
Yeah, well, your opinion clearly isn't informed by much. But you're awfully fucking confident about it, even think it is "cold hard truth". Lurk moar.