tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27715653.post2669502510461018156..comments2023-06-18T03:28:09.058-07:00Comments on fresh eggs: the sustainable foodie: dodging the issue: is it worthwhile to challenge factory-farming practices behind fast-food?jordan1.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/05108280493939263337noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27715653.post-50398332244019771092007-10-19T12:56:00.000-07:002007-10-19T12:56:00.000-07:00I love your blog. In response to this post, I do ...I love your blog.<BR/> In response to this post, I do think that making people more aware of how animals suffer does some good. While it may not change the whole world's eating habits overnight..or even in the next century.. for me saving the life of even one animal is worth it. And minimizing their suffering is as well. I became vegetarian because of a friend and because I read about factory farming. Now one of my friends is going veg as well. I have also influenced some family members to choose free range meat for thanksgiving turkey dinner instead of your conventional butterball cruelty plant! I think little things like this are always worth it .. "no one made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." ~Edmund Burke~naturebunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849418162422968294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27715653.post-36209493744989092142007-05-20T01:09:00.000-07:002007-05-20T01:09:00.000-07:00Absolutely. Incremental change is better than no ...Absolutely. Incremental change is better than no change at all. As you rightly point out, changing an entire nation’s eating habits overnight is not going to happen. Nor is dramatic and wide-scale reform of an industry that seems to exist in a moral vacuum – in which anything goes, as long as it results in profits at the end of the line. <BR/><BR/>Bringing factory farming methods into the public realm for discussion and debate is vital. But it’s normally a difficult subject to get raised in the mainstream media - it touches a raw nerve. Many meat-eaters express a vague uneasiness about the way that factory-farmed meat is produced, but find it more palatable to just not think about it, than to have to confront their consciences and question their moral choices. For this reason, the secretive veil that exists over the actions of the meat industry seems to be happily condoned. <BR/><BR/>If this lawsuit helps to raise these issues in the media, then surely it can only be a good thing. Pushing for more humane methods of intensive animal-rearing doesn’t have to mean that we condone factory farming, it just means that we’re tackling the problem realistically and incrementally…Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com