"Ditching meat isn't the answer", "Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out", by someone who runs "a small, family-operated pig farm", and writes about how "beneficial and rewarding" sustainable farming can be. I'm not sure if they notice they make their living killing pigs.
Another point: in the sentence
>Commercial meat production got to be the monster it is because corporate interests monopolized the market and began seeing animal life as a commodity — something to be produced and traded at the lowest cost possible, at the expense of the environment, animal welfare and working conditions for farmhands.
it seemed very odd—grotesque, even—to include "working conditions for farmhands" in the 3 main costs of seeing animals as just commodities, in a purportedly enlightened article. And animal welfare seems to come a distant second to the effect on the environment—by which I think they mean, having horrible factory farms everywhere etc.
Another point: in the sentence
>Commercial meat production got to be the monster it is because corporate interests monopolized the market and began seeing animal life as a commodity — something to be produced and traded at the lowest cost possible, at the expense of the environment, animal welfare and working conditions for farmhands.
it seemed very odd—grotesque, even—to include "working conditions for farmhands" in the 3 main costs of seeing animals as just commodities, in a purportedly enlightened article. And animal welfare seems to come a distant second to the effect on the environment—by which I think they mean, having horrible factory farms everywhere etc.