Suffolk Downs Anti-slaughter Policy a Joke

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

And I think a lot of these animal lovers aren't really willing to put in the time and effort to work for a solution that would actually be in the best interests of the horses. How many anti-horse slaughter people do I know who eat factory-raised beef, poultry or pork? They're against horse cruelty, but, while they feel kind of bad about the fact that the chicken they're eating spent its short miserable life in an 8X10 cage with six other birds (with their beaks cut off), actually doing something about that would require inconveniencing themselves (spending more money on humanely raised meat, or limiting their meat intake) so they don't bother. And yet they expect people in the racing industry to be better human beings than they are because horses are prettier than chickens?

What about farm raised catfish?

People have got to establish what pain and suffering is
and in which species it matters.

Animals vary widely in
the type of nervous systems they have and clearly do not
feel pain the same way as mammals do. We try to make
this an easy issue but it is not.

Your chicken example of course led to the fish example.
Which could then lead to farm raised bivalves (mussels)
and on down the line. In all of these cases the animals
must be healthy in some way to yield the most meat
and to attempt to prevent disease.
Overcrowding... pain and suffering, its not that easy.

Better just stick with the mammals and watch it with
the birds, fish, amphibians (frogs), bivlaves ,echinoderms (sea cucumbers).
If you do go with the birds, I am going to have to insist
you also look closely into fish and mollusk torture.