Eating Animals

As upon reading the Omnivores Dilemma something struck me I love eating animals odd to say it that way I know but in Pollans book he discusses about how people don't actually know what they are eating and how it got to their plates but I think most people know that on their plate is a piece of some kind of animal.

He also discusses how pita changes countless people a year to become vegetarians due to the things that they do and images they show. I don't hate people i just think they are misleading, they convince people that animal cruelty happens in every industry in the meat chain. This is a huge false it just does not happen the way they portray it. They make it seem like every animal that is on your plate has lived some horrible life and been hurt by the system in some way in truth it only happens in some cases but on the other hand animal happiness is a different story with a well oiled system built for production you just wont get beautiful paddocks filled with animals that have free roam it wont happen because we have to much demand for not enough land.

You may ask well if we shouldn't look at this system as a animal destroyer then what should we see it as? The answer is a producer the system is built to produce enough for the demand and it gets meat on my plate so it much be working. People have become to sensitive and don't simply understand that if you want meat on your plate we have to have a production intensive system.

In general our system provides us the meat we demand with as little animal cruelty as possible.

Could you argue that the reason most of the domesticated animals on the planet are alive because of agriculture and without it would be extinct.