TIL that cheese is the most stolen food in the world. 4% of global cheese supply is stolen every year

I’ll check it out now, thanks.

Here’s just a short blurb about how an entire plant can react to a wound or distress:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system

I’m not gonna argue for factory/commercial farming because that clearly is inhumane.

But raising chickens, in a safe area free from predators and providing them ample food and collecting their un-fertilized eggs? Or doing the same while raising cows and milking them and loving them? Or shearing sheep? Adopting a dog and petting it? Clearly none of these animals can “consent” to any of that—but whether we like it or not, because of man’s previous actions, millions of these animals have been domesticated or born dependent on humans and i don’t really see a better alternative in some cases.

Sheep naturally didn’t need to be sheared yearly. But hundreds of years of selectively breeding, their are millions that must be, or their wool will eventually prevent them from seeing, eating, or even moving.

Is it more humane to let that selectively bred version of sheep all die until it’s extinct?

Again, I think farming for profit or hunting for pleasure is terrible. But I also think that this is all not just a black and white, all or nothing issue.

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