Not eating meat, a human rights issue

[Catherine]

This is all part of a bigger picture of how humans treat each other and animals and the planet.

Your friend, a nice person became something different when he worked with animals under certain conditions.

How often in history have human behaved badly towards other humans. (genocides, residential schools in Canada)

How often do humans do terrible things to the planet. (environmental disasters like the tar sands)

Tobi, you were wise to turn down the job. It put you at risk. You would either have been at odds with the job or you would have had to conform. It wouldn't have worked.

The workers in slaughterhouses conform and it damages them as people.

We need to fix the whole system. No one should be required to do a job that involves abusing others.
No system should be set up so that there is abuse.

 The whole factory farming system treats the animals as objects to be used. The workers are expected to use them and ultimately abuse them. The system drains the environment and the waste material causes serious pollution of the environment. Everything about the system is wrong.

At this point it doesn't matter how it happened. We just need to stop it. Rejecting the products of factory farming takes us out of the destructive loop.

If the cell multiplication meat can help more people walk away from factory farmed products then it is a good idea.

Is there a healthier farm system we can use? I don't know. What would that healthier system look like?