That is exactly why we started raising livestock in the first place. when the economy tanks and meat costs $20 a pound (if it's even in the store) I'll know that we have the ability to care for ourselves. Plus I like knowing that the meat I am eating, and more importantly, feeding my child was raised and killed humanely. Our animals eat naturally, without antibiotics and hormones. they run and play and lounge in the sunshine and do what animals are supposed to do.
I realize that not everyone is in a place where they can do that. I realize that there are people who don't want to slaughter animals for the simple fact that they just DON"T WANT TO. that is fine. What I have a problem with is people who don't have the foggiest idea about where their food comes from. They pat themselves on the back for buying "free range" and "grass fed" meat, eggs and dairy at walmart, not knowing that those terms mean absolutely nothing to the animals' well-being in the industrial food complex. They don't know how an animal is killed or processed. I'd wager that when most people eat meat they couldn't even tell you what part of the animal it came off of.
How are we, as a people, supposed to be able to give thanks when we don't know where our food came from or how it got there?
More importantly, I have to wonder why people are so paranoid about food safety once the food is in their own kitchen, but they don't care about anything that happened to it before that. They don't care that their roast beef was once standing knee deep in manure, or that it traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to get to them, or that it was handled by dozens of people before they got it. Those are all things that scare the crap out of me.