The Issues with Free-Ranged Meat
James McWilliams, Associate Professor of history at Texas State
University, San Marcos, and author of "Just Food: Where Locavores
Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly", discusses the
false assumption that free-range meat is the way to go. While he
acknowledges that free-range animals do experience less miserable
lives than factory farmed animals, he exposes the ethical problems
of killing animals that we don't need for survival; especially,
killing healthy, young animals depriving them of their full
potential as living creatures.
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Why Free-Ranged Meat is not Much Better than
Factory-Farmed
Killing God's animals for the sake of profit and taste raises
serious ethical issues that are intimately woven with our Christian
faith. Certainly, killing an animal we don't really need for
survival is not an example of good stewardship but instead of a
hardened heart.