A clear majority of the U.S. public finds standard animal agriculture practices for pigs, cows, and chickens to be unacceptable, ranging from 71% to 85%, depending on the practice.

Now what percent of that 85% would be willing to pay more or stop eating meat to improve their living conditions?

I wonder how much about these standard practices the average American knows.

And I’m not sure if they understand the word “unacceptable”, because they clearly are buying and eating the meat that results from these practices.  If it were unacceptable, would they not buy that meat/find better sources for that meat?  I buy chicken from a local farmer.  It costs more, but I know how the birds are raised and handled, plus the quality of the meat is a lot better than what I can get in the grocery store.

This kind of reminds me of a woman I know. She loved to eat meat products, but would freak out if you tried to tell her how they were made.

That is to say, I think Americans are ignorant of agricultural practices in general, whether they’re large factory farms or mom and pop shops. Nobody wants to think about how the burger they’re eating used to have a face.

So, as someone who finds it unacceptable but who also eats a ton of meat, I understand I am a hypocrite.

Would I pay more if they went to practices i find acceptable, I would. But, even now, thats a hard thing to do where I live and my living space(I can’t go to a local farm and buy half a cow due to lack of storage space).

But, if the whole industry moved ro better practices, I would have no choice and id be fine with that

I don’t have issues with any of these practices unless they make the food worse to eat

I think a vast majority of Americans would find many mass production practices unacceptable. It’s not just how we get our meat, but also our clothes, electronics, jewelry, and other things that make up our lifestyle.

Thing is as written this is not true.

Likely it should read as:

When informed of what US standard animal agricultural practices are, a clear majority of a study group found them unacceptable.

I suspect that the majority are quite happy eating in ignorance.

Whew! Glad we got that cleared up. Now that the plutocrats know their abuses of these animals are unpopular, they’ll fix everything. Good thing that’s how the system works. Can you imagine if responding to a poll didn’t do anything about injustice?

Yeah that’s why I stopped buying meat from big box grocery stores

We have a local rancher who we buy from now, he will let us come out and watch his practice whenever we want to make sure there’s no cruelty or nefarious things involved and the meat just plain tastes way better

Expensive as shit though so I understand why others don’t do that

I can convince myself that the morality of meat production is insignificant enough for me to eat meat, especially considering that these are domesticated species that wouldn’t exist without human intervention. I have no excuse for the environmental impact though.

don’t like? then don’t eat meat or pay more

If US raises standards significantly, we know what consumers will do: switch to cheaper imports, complain about protective policies/greedy ranchers/capitalists and ignore the same problem too (aka outsourcing problems). Whoever answered survey just wanted to feel better about themselves anyway, essentially useless yet prevalent.

I work food safety, a lot of the “standard practices” exist to keep the food we eat safe. For instance, pigs nowadays are often raised on concrete slabs (covered in straw at least) to prevent them from rooting around in the dirt and picking up parasites like Trichina and worms. On the other side of things, there’ve been so many worries about antibiotics in our meats that now if a cow or other farm animal has an abscess, often it’s not treated because that might “taint” the meat; instead, they’re rushed to slaughter before it gets too much worse.

Still though, there’ve are businesses that try to be more “humane” to the animals, allowing them to roam and free-range. With those more holistic (“organic” even) practices come higher prices, and as we’ve seen people get mad-mad when the price of their meat goes up. And do NOT even get me started on standard chicken practices – there’s sadly a reason why that is so much cheaper than beef or pork, and it often has to do with how they’re raised/slaughtered as fast and “efficiently” as possible.

Get up in arms all you want, just know the public’s outcry for cheap meat is what leads to the kind of conditions you so often see in videos and stories. We do try to keep the really bad stuff from happening, but until people start fighting with their wallets and not memes/upvotes the industry won’t really change.

Who wants better conditions for animals?

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Who wants to pay the cost for better conditions for animals?

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The magic word is “veganism” but people would rather go on and on about how they’d be willing to “pay more for ‘ethical’ meat” even though they could be paying less for the most ethical food imaginable

“unacceptable” but they still gobble up the meat, not sure that a majority of the US public has intelligence.

A clear majority of the us public has no fucking idea what actually happens on a farm. Shit half think milk and beef just come from a store and don’t know how it gets there.

Translation: butchering is cruelty. only eat road kill.

Yet Republicans have taken to banning synthetic, lab grown meat in their states. Why? Because many of them own cattle farms.

People’s morals stop at their plate

71-85% of Americans feel they ought to say they find it unacceptable, while only 2% find it unacceptable, by which I mean they don’t pay to continue treating animals this way by buying eggs and bacon. With a little research, it’s easy to maintain an affordable and nutritionally complete diet without meat, as people have done for centuries. 

Tip: if you have a low tolerance for fiber but can’t afford to buy commercial vegan meats, you can buy pure wheat protein (vital wheat gluten) and make it in your own kitchen for much cheaper than beef or chicken. There are many good recipes online and I’m happy to share mine with anyone that wants.

There is no such thing as ethically killing an animal that wants to live. You can’t ethically separate animals from their families. You can’t ethically rape animals for their secretions. It’s all a marketing plot to make people feel better about doing terrible things. Kind of like “save the bees by breeding one type of bee and eating their honey” or “save the fish by using non-plastic straws, here’s some cod to eat though” the only ethical thing to do is leave them alone and stop breeding them.