“Absolutely not,” she replied, citing numerous assurances of animal welfare that would hardly raise an eyebrow when applied to chickens, cows and pigs. On the other hand, I tend to justify my vegetarianism as environmentally motivated, but neither does that argument bear much scrutiny. Likewise, decades of artifice and cultural conditioning mask the slaughter and the carbon emissions behind each clinical square of nondescript supermarket meat. Charlie Tebbutt is a third year PhD candidate in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. And here’s our email: [email protected].

Source: Daily Sun October 25, 2023 05:52 UTC