I may be wrong and if I am I am sorry about that.
Small farms have an easier time keeping animals in clean, well spaced conditions and have an easier time killing the animals humanely due to the fact that they don't have to process hundreds of animals in a single day. The exception to that may be the killing of small animals such as chickens on a small farm.
Factory farms are massive operations that raise, contain and butcher hundreds if not thousands of animals every day. To do that they need to be able to process the animals quickly and efficiently and with efficiency comes short cuts. Speed and product turn out has caused many companies to cut corners and endanger lives for the sake of better production.
Not all large farms will cut corners so much as to be sending still thrashing cows down the line to be processed, but some will if the demand is there and the profit is good.
So smaller farms, if given the right light, can make a bit of better business for themselves by offering humanely treated meats.
One big fact that needs to be accepted is that in order to eat meat, an animal has to die.
Death will always incur some amount of pain even if it is a fraction of a second. The process of dying from most humane methods of slaughter involve muscle spasms and a disarray of brain firings. What may look like a living and feeling animal may not always be that. The animal's body may just be reacting to uncontrolled synapses and it really is unconscious and unfeeling. When people were beheaded their bodies would flail after their head removed and with the guillotine doctors even noted that the heads would blink and even appear to speak after being removed. Disconnecting the brain from the body suddenly is considered the most humane death and notoriously causes the shocking reaction many people see and believe to be a live animal.
Small farms have an easier time keeping animals in clean, well spaced conditions and have an easier time killing the animals humanely due to the fact that they don't have to process hundreds of animals in a single day. The exception to that may be the killing of small animals such as chickens on a small farm.
Factory farms are massive operations that raise, contain and butcher hundreds if not thousands of animals every day. To do that they need to be able to process the animals quickly and efficiently and with efficiency comes short cuts. Speed and product turn out has caused many companies to cut corners and endanger lives for the sake of better production.
Not all large farms will cut corners so much as to be sending still thrashing cows down the line to be processed, but some will if the demand is there and the profit is good.
So smaller farms, if given the right light, can make a bit of better business for themselves by offering humanely treated meats.
One big fact that needs to be accepted is that in order to eat meat, an animal has to die.
Death will always incur some amount of pain even if it is a fraction of a second. The process of dying from most humane methods of slaughter involve muscle spasms and a disarray of brain firings. What may look like a living and feeling animal may not always be that. The animal's body may just be reacting to uncontrolled synapses and it really is unconscious and unfeeling. When people were beheaded their bodies would flail after their head removed and with the guillotine doctors even noted that the heads would blink and even appear to speak after being removed. Disconnecting the brain from the body suddenly is considered the most humane death and notoriously causes the shocking reaction many people see and believe to be a live animal.
