Ok now tell all the people surveyed that it will cost more money for them to buy meat and see how they change their mind.
It’s easy to say “I don’t like this thing”, much harder to say “I don’t like this thing enough to pay more.” You see this in surveys about climate change all the time, as soon as they throw in paying more taxes to fix it the support drops off a cliff.
Zahpow on
It is completely bonkers to me that people choose to participate in this when they are against it and it is so obviously optional
stan-k on
Surprised to see that gas chambers are deemed the least unacceptable. I guess they have stiff competition…
But yeah, this clearly shows something needs to change here. Great depiction of it!
Veganeconow on
How could anyone find any of those actions acceptable ?
grailly on
I would be curious if they just put “animal killed”. Looking at some of these results, it feels like there would still be a pretty high percentage of people thinking it’s unacceptable.
srirachaninja on
But then they go to Costco and buy the $5 chicken. As much as I love Costco, I don’t know how people can eat this. I got it 3 times, and it always tested weird, like a meat sponge full of water.
girch7 on
I don’t understand the reason one would expect “pain relief” for a farm animal. I imagine the act of giving relief is likely more traumatic than not getting it.
I picture this thinking about my old dog. Who commonly jumps the fence and resprains his ankle. It obviously bothers him but he doesn’t let it slow him down or hardly even notice it.
hungry-freaks-daddy on
It’s a crime what we do to these creatures. I should really give up meat.
thedancingwireless on
There’s a reason slaughterhouses are out in the middle of nowhere.
There’s a reason it’s illegal to film what goes on inside of them.
There’s a reason we call it “beef” and “processing” and “agriculture” instead of “cow” and “slaughtering” and “enslavement”.
We have been conditioned to be against it in theory but okay with it in practice. We’ve been conditioned to believe that the problem will fix itself. We’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s out of our hands.
If you care about this, go vegan.
Lol3droflxp on
This is literally a bar chart with weird colours and badly drawn animals next to it. How is this data beautiful?
matteoarts on
What’s with the huge amount of vegan comments in here? You can want meat and still agree that these practices are horrible.
I’ll tell you what, I’m still gonna eat sushi and chicken and beef because I enjoy meat and don’t want to go vegan, but where can I help sign into law something that will ban these kinds of practices? Because I sure as hell don’t want torturous abuse being performed on animals, would rather respect the animal as kindly as possible if we’re going to gain sustenance from it. But I’m also not going to hop on the “never eating meat again” train.
hoffia21 on
cope and seethe at my bacon-and-egg cheeseburger
unski_ukuli on
Interesting data but not beautiful. Wtf are those colors!?
Helphaer on
I will still eat meat but this makes me want to vomit. also I want to know the 4th line.. People that think its unacceptable and will accept higher costs or less availability for safer standards.
MrLowell on
I’m glad I went vegan this is horrifying
fixminer on
Actions speak louder than words. If people keep buying factory farm products, they implicitly agree with all of this.
mattihase on
What purpose would removing a chicken’s beak do? You’re just gonna make it harder to feed then bozo.
Allu71 on
Ok so ban these practises
chubrak on
And this is exactly why I’m a hunter. I harvest an animal that lived a great life outdoors with minimal suffering and thank it for providing me and my family with food.
dim13 on
People with zero knowledge about agriculture having strong random opinions. Got it.
darkonark on
Animal castration is typically done with a rubber band, not the Spanish Inquisition Contraption you’re picturing in your mind.
modbroccoli on
> unacceptable
Except we all accepting it. Self-report is a difficult data source.
alphamalejackhammer on
I can’t even stomach reading these descriptions, this is awful and we’re monsters.
CG2028 on
People here ought to watch Earthlings
iClaudius13 on
Incredibly low effort data viz. What’s with the colors? It looks like 6.6-13.7% of responses came from cows.
It’s also inordinately annoying that the sample size is “~1,000”. To an advocacy group that might mean something very different than to a researcher. In the absence of other information, “Faunalytics” does not inspire confidence that the sample size is representative of US adults or even a non-biased sample.
Lastly, the questions aren’t designed in a way that the data is actionable. It just confirms what a lot of us believe already— Americans love animals and also love to eat them.
Fidel___Castro on
people that find this unacceptable are either vegan or hypocritical
Vegan_Zukunft on
People’s ‘morals’ end at their plates.
Prasiatko on
I alwqys find it funny how the shredding of male chicks is always the least acceptable to people when it’s almost aleays one of the more humane options on these polls.
migukau on
Im surprised about the first chickens one. I remember seeing my grandmother cutting chickens throats since a kid and its always been normal to me.
abougadaba on
I’d love to know who in their right minds would find all this “acceptable”. Even just 10% is like, 30+million people if you consider all the population of the U.S. Pretty damn sad guys.
tungsten_panda on
The way some of these are worded are very manipulative honestly.
toast_is_square on
I grew up on a pig farm, and I just want to say that I, personally, think the only way to improve conditions for these animals is to eat less meat.
People seem to forget that nature is cruel in its own right and has no sense of right or wrong. The gestation cages for pigs are used so that they don’t lay on their babies and suffocate them, which they are notorious for doing. I’m not saying that WE should not operate with a sense of right or wrong, but this stuff doesn’t exist for the sole intention of being cruel, which sometimes gets lost in these posts.
Eating less meat de-incentivizes factory farming, whose only goal is to produce as much as possible. Then put that money towards buying from local trust worthy farms. If quantity is the goal the quality of life for the stock will always suffer. Please please skip the Tyson at the grocery store and wait until you can run by your local farmers market or butcher shop to buy bacon.
_marimbae on
Veganism seems extreme until you realize who really pays the price of animal products. Plant-based diets are cheaper, healthier, and better for the environment. The time to change is now.
![Public Acceptability of Standard U.S. Animal Agriculture Practices [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ghgj3qhecidg1-1024x841.png "Public Acceptability of Standard U.S. Animal Agriculture Practices [OC]")
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Tool: Microsoft Excel
Source: [Faunalytics](https://faunalytics.org/public-acceptability-of-standard-u-s-animal-agriculture-practices/)
Ok now tell all the people surveyed that it will cost more money for them to buy meat and see how they change their mind.
It’s easy to say “I don’t like this thing”, much harder to say “I don’t like this thing enough to pay more.” You see this in surveys about climate change all the time, as soon as they throw in paying more taxes to fix it the support drops off a cliff.
It is completely bonkers to me that people choose to participate in this when they are against it and it is so obviously optional
Surprised to see that gas chambers are deemed the least unacceptable. I guess they have stiff competition…
But yeah, this clearly shows something needs to change here. Great depiction of it!
How could anyone find any of those actions acceptable ?
I would be curious if they just put “animal killed”. Looking at some of these results, it feels like there would still be a pretty high percentage of people thinking it’s unacceptable.
But then they go to Costco and buy the $5 chicken. As much as I love Costco, I don’t know how people can eat this. I got it 3 times, and it always tested weird, like a meat sponge full of water.
I don’t understand the reason one would expect “pain relief” for a farm animal. I imagine the act of giving relief is likely more traumatic than not getting it.
I picture this thinking about my old dog. Who commonly jumps the fence and resprains his ankle. It obviously bothers him but he doesn’t let it slow him down or hardly even notice it.
It’s a crime what we do to these creatures. I should really give up meat.
There’s a reason slaughterhouses are out in the middle of nowhere.
There’s a reason it’s illegal to film what goes on inside of them.
There’s a reason we call it “beef” and “processing” and “agriculture” instead of “cow” and “slaughtering” and “enslavement”.
We have been conditioned to be against it in theory but okay with it in practice. We’ve been conditioned to believe that the problem will fix itself. We’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s out of our hands.
If you care about this, go vegan.
This is literally a bar chart with weird colours and badly drawn animals next to it. How is this data beautiful?
What’s with the huge amount of vegan comments in here? You can want meat and still agree that these practices are horrible.
I’ll tell you what, I’m still gonna eat sushi and chicken and beef because I enjoy meat and don’t want to go vegan, but where can I help sign into law something that will ban these kinds of practices? Because I sure as hell don’t want torturous abuse being performed on animals, would rather respect the animal as kindly as possible if we’re going to gain sustenance from it. But I’m also not going to hop on the “never eating meat again” train.
cope and seethe at my bacon-and-egg cheeseburger
Interesting data but not beautiful. Wtf are those colors!?
I will still eat meat but this makes me want to vomit. also I want to know the 4th line.. People that think its unacceptable and will accept higher costs or less availability for safer standards.
I’m glad I went vegan this is horrifying
Actions speak louder than words. If people keep buying factory farm products, they implicitly agree with all of this.
What purpose would removing a chicken’s beak do? You’re just gonna make it harder to feed then bozo.
Ok so ban these practises
And this is exactly why I’m a hunter. I harvest an animal that lived a great life outdoors with minimal suffering and thank it for providing me and my family with food.
People with zero knowledge about agriculture having strong random opinions. Got it.
Animal castration is typically done with a rubber band, not the Spanish Inquisition Contraption you’re picturing in your mind.
> unacceptable
Except we all accepting it. Self-report is a difficult data source.
I can’t even stomach reading these descriptions, this is awful and we’re monsters.
People here ought to watch Earthlings
Incredibly low effort data viz. What’s with the colors? It looks like 6.6-13.7% of responses came from cows.
It’s also inordinately annoying that the sample size is “~1,000”. To an advocacy group that might mean something very different than to a researcher. In the absence of other information, “Faunalytics” does not inspire confidence that the sample size is representative of US adults or even a non-biased sample.
Lastly, the questions aren’t designed in a way that the data is actionable. It just confirms what a lot of us believe already— Americans love animals and also love to eat them.
people that find this unacceptable are either vegan or hypocritical
People’s ‘morals’ end at their plates.
I alwqys find it funny how the shredding of male chicks is always the least acceptable to people when it’s almost aleays one of the more humane options on these polls.
Im surprised about the first chickens one. I remember seeing my grandmother cutting chickens throats since a kid and its always been normal to me.
I’d love to know who in their right minds would find all this “acceptable”. Even just 10% is like, 30+million people if you consider all the population of the U.S. Pretty damn sad guys.
The way some of these are worded are very manipulative honestly.
I grew up on a pig farm, and I just want to say that I, personally, think the only way to improve conditions for these animals is to eat less meat.
People seem to forget that nature is cruel in its own right and has no sense of right or wrong. The gestation cages for pigs are used so that they don’t lay on their babies and suffocate them, which they are notorious for doing. I’m not saying that WE should not operate with a sense of right or wrong, but this stuff doesn’t exist for the sole intention of being cruel, which sometimes gets lost in these posts.
Eating less meat de-incentivizes factory farming, whose only goal is to produce as much as possible. Then put that money towards buying from local trust worthy farms. If quantity is the goal the quality of life for the stock will always suffer. Please please skip the Tyson at the grocery store and wait until you can run by your local farmers market or butcher shop to buy bacon.
Veganism seems extreme until you realize who really pays the price of animal products. Plant-based diets are cheaper, healthier, and better for the environment. The time to change is now.