I suspect the family separation border policy will have had a very dark effect on the communities from which the detention centers draw their employees. There are consequences to submerging people in hierarchies where empathy is shattered against authority as a matter of routine
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There was one instance where I really felt I had to kill a baby chicken that had been suffering and declining over ~24 hours, and not only was it very distressing for me but I suspect that someone who had no attachment to the poor thing would have done it slightly more quickly
In any case, I grew up in Texas & met some very animal welfare-oriented ranchers — they seem to see the premature death as necessary for the quite nice life that precedes it. Whether that's convincing or not, it's miles from "I torture animals so my employer can cut costs"
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Thanks for replying! Awesome and interesting answer which I broadly agree with... ...except I wonder if it’s true that you have to break something in yourself to kill for food. (And I wonder about this as someone who also really struggles with this, like you described)
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Essentially, to what extent do we naturally hate to see things suffer and die (which I think we naturally do), and what extent is it a post-processed-food era conceit that we might struggle emotionally with, for example, hunting for food?
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