Free Range Farming.?

Question

As a vegetarian/vegan would any of you support the idea of free range or organic farming as a way of lessening animal cruelty and also as a way of cutting down the supply of meat to the masses.

Please give logical, rational reasons.

Answer 1

Absolutely yes.

People are going to eat meat; we are naturally omnivores.  So meat should be produced with the least possible cruelty to the animals.  

My non-vegetarian family members don't eat beef; they keep the freezer filled with venison harvested from the wild.  I'm good with that, because the animal gets to live a natural, free life and the death is sudden.  I can't bear to think about how cattle are treated.

Answer 2

i feel terrible when i see and hear of the terrible conditions of caged hens,cows ect.all animals should be treated well,especially if we're going to cut their lifes short to eat them..but again people don't think of this when they're trying to feed a family on a low budget.it's very tricky.carry on the good work.

Answer 3

Yes I encourage it.  I live on a farm, and what a lot of people don't consider is that people in general are going to by meat and other animal products.  It is a fact of life.  If we discourage free range farming and organic farming, we are encouraging the masses to buy from larger companies.  If we encourage free range, we discourage from the larger companies.  I don't think that it would cut down on the "supply" of meat to the masses by any means.  They will go get it from the next guy.  If we provide them with a source where things are more humane before it gets to their hands, we are doing them, and the animals that would be treated wrongly, a favor.

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

I am a farmer by profession and here's the problem.

1.  Be prepared for massive deforestation of the earth.  How do you expect to produce the same amount of beef/meat required to feed the world when you suddenly change from a system where the animal requires say, 500 sqft of dedicated space, to a system where each animal requires 100,000 sqft of space?  The only way is to turn practically every open acre of land on earth into grazing land.  Say goodby to the Amazon.

2. You can't "cut down the supply of meat to the masses."  We live in a free society (at least as long as Obamination doesn't get elected) so you can't tell people that they can't have what they want to eat.  If I want a t-bone to throw on the grill tonight, there better d**n well be one at the store when I get there.  You also can't control the demand for meat through price because by the laws of capitalism, if the price goes up, supply will increase too until equilibrium is reached.  To bring the human nature aspect of this, it is well known buying organic all the time is the habit of people who typically live in urban environments and are wealthy, since they are the people with the resources and time to be concerned with such things.  For the rest of the real world, a trip to the grocery store means buying enough food to feed 5 people for a week with more than likely, a finite amount of money to spend.  For those people, a $22.95/lb Niman ranch, free grazed, grass fed, organic NY strip steak isn't an option.  They will always seek the more economical option and they far outnumber the affluent organic consumer, so they win.

You ideas are noble, but they are also a pipe dream.

Answer 6

I live in farm country, and the cows I drive past everyday are very happy, roaming cows. However, that makes me even more sad to think of one being on my plate!

My opinion on the "free range" matter is that if you have to eat meat, that's the way to do it. At least the animal had a happy life for a while. And really, that's the way things were in the beginning. You raised your own animals, then when the time came, you slaughtered them (eeeewwww). Or you hunted. And that's fine. Meat is important to most people. But my personal preference is to stop eating meat. Seeing a carcass next to my pasta just isn't appealing.

Answer 7

One reason I became a vegetarian because we don’t need meat.

It is possible to live without eating meat. It is also possible to live without watching films, without conversation, or without holidays. We don’t need to drink tea. This is a total non-argument, and when I hear this being used, I know that the person saying it has no idea why they really became a vegetarian. The idea that we should ban ourselves from doing anything which isn’t necessary is so stupid that this section can be very short.

Answer 8

Yes, but it has to be truly free range.  Plenty of farms claim that they are, but really are not.  You can claim to be "free range" and still horribly abuse animals.

Providing meat to the masses cannot be done without polluting the environment with animal f***s and other waste products of metabolism.  

People need to change their thinking about meat.  It does not need to be consumed every day or every meal.  It should be a rarity, a delicacy, and extremely expensive.

Answer 9

Yes I do support it. I live among free range farms and I've seen horrible images from inside battery farms and know how much animals suffered in the Victorian period for example, by being kept cramped together in the middle of unsanitary town centres.

The animals on the farms where I live get veterinary attention as soon as they need it and can roam free as and when they want and you can tell from the way they act that they're happy. Animals shouldn't be kept in cages and free range ensures that.

You can see how the animals around here are kept and what they're fed so you know when you buy eggs and milk off them that the farmers care for their animals and look after them properly. I think it's a brilliant idea and let's hope it catches on so much that battery farms become a thing of the past.

Answer 10

Why I should be vegetarian:

1.Vegetables are safe food.

2.Vegetables protein is even safer.

3.Excessive consuming of meat is never good for health where as little consuming may also pose risk to health after certain age. So, after 40 I prefer to consume only vegetables.

The reason being a vegetarian is safety for me not 'not being cruel' to the animals. They are considered as food too and they are just natural selection. Being a vegetarian I don't want to consume anything that risks my health. We must produce safe organic food to keep healthy supply of food and to fight the food crisis of the world but no JUNK.

Answer 11

Anything that lessens animal cruelty is good, just don't call it cruelty free.