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Today's episode is on humane meat, dairy, and eggs.

I hear a lot of people say, I eat humane meat. I eat humane

raised meat. I eat humane dairy, humane eggs. It's better for me, better for the

animals, better for the earth. I know I said that when I was eating meat, dairy and eggs because none of us want to believe that we're contributing to harm against animals, against ourselves, against the earth.

I have yet to meet a non-vegan who doesn't care about the treatment of animals

bred and killed for human consumption. Nobody wants to support cruelty and

nobody wants to believe they're part of it. Even people who eat meat, obviously, we're all aware on some level that the

experience is unpleasant for the animals, will say they object to unnecessary abuse and

cruelty as if there's ever necessary. unnecessary abuse and cruelty. Instead most of us declare that we buy humane

meat, free-range eggs, organic milk perceiving ourselves as ethical consumers and these products as the

final frontier in the fight against animal cruelty. I was once one of those people. But though we kill over 10 billion land animals every year just to please our

pallets, rather than questioning the absurdity and the inherent cruelty of bringing animals into this world

only to kill them. Instead, we try to absolve ourselves by making what we think are guilt-free choices, failing to recognize the paradoxical

impossibility of humane slaughter, and never really knowing what the whole experience is for an animal from cradle, domestication, to grave our bodies.

Though modern animal factories look nothing like what is idealized in children's books and advertisements or in our imaginations.

There are also many misconceptions about the practices and principles of a humane operation.

The unappetizing process of turning live animals into isolated body parts

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