{"id":9356,"date":"2022-11-21T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:42:46","slug":"what-is-an-animals-life-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"What is an animal\u2019s life worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“While the comparison between a pig and an inanimate object like a dented can may be heartless, it may not be far off from actual consumer behavior; we tend to implicitly treat farmed animals\u2019 lives as if they\u2019re as disposable as a dented can of beans or tomato sauce. Just look at our food waste crisis: The meat, dairy, and eggs from over 35 billion land and sea animals<\/a> are thrown away each year in the US, and over one-third<\/a> of that happens in our homes.”
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“Reducing the suffering of billions of factory-farmed animals is so hard in large part because overcoming human nature is so hard; most people, when given the choice<\/a>, will choose cheap, conventional meat over the more expensive organic variety (or plant-based versions, for that matter). That\u2019s true even if they\u2019re opposed to factory farming and have the means to spend more on food. Yet that meat isn\u2019t magically cheap; animals pay for it with their suffering.”   
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“We want to believe that the animals we eat are treated \u201chumanely\u201d (a relative, subjective concept), but we don\u2019t want to have to think about it too much or change our own behavior, in the form of spending more on meat or buying less of it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2022\/10\/25\/23412945\/farm-animal-welfare-humane-meat-eggs-vote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“While the comparison between a pig and an inanimate object like a dented can may be heartless, it may not be far off from actual consumer behavior; we tend to implicitly treat farmed animals\u2019 lives as if they\u2019re as disposable as a dented can of beans or tomato sauce. Just look at our food waste crisis: The meat, dairy, and eggs from over 35 billion land and sea animals are thrown away each year in the US, and over one-third of that happens in our homes.”<\/p>\n

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“Reducing the suffering of billions of factory-farmed animals is so hard in large part because overcoming human nature is so hard; most people, when given the choice, will choose cheap, conventional meat over the more expensive organic variety (or plant-based versions, for that matter). That\u2019s true even if they\u2019re opposed to factory farming and have the means to spend more on food. Yet that meat isn\u2019t magically cheap; animals pay for it with their suffering.” <\/p>\n

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“We want to believe that the animals we eat are treated \u201chumanely\u201d (a relative, subjective concept), but we don\u2019t want to have to think about it too much or change our own behavior, in the form of spending more on meat or buying less of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1017,1016,607],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-animal-rights","tag-animals","tag-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}