Thank you for your comment, Irwin. You have given voice to feelings that are shared by many. Here's my response:
1) Substack (or rather, Gmail's ability to accommodate email articles) limits the length of my writing, and even breaking this series into three articles, I’m at the limit. My primary focus is nutrition, though I do understand the far-reaching complexities of this issue. I cannot address everything. My third article will mention this concern.
2) Pasture-raised and hunted animals live natural lives until the moment of death, and are killed humanely. Here is a podcast in which this is described in detail by a regenerative bison farmer. They take the utmost care in attending to their animals. https://drhyman.com/blog/2023/07/12/podcast-ep748/
3) There’s increasing evidence that plants and fungi do feel pain, and that they put out distress signals in the form of sound waves that our ears cannot hear, but special machines can. They also communicate via mycelial networks, issuing warning signals when under attack by insects, etc. This is a fascinating new field of inquiry.
4) Animals are killed by habitat destruction, cars, planes, pollution, agriculture, soil degradation, and so much more. Millions of birds are killed by airplanes every year, and air travel also contributes far more to carbon emissions than livestock farming — yet there is no cry for people to stop flying.
5) Dairy and egg farming does not kill animals.
6) If everyone ate meat judiciously, factory farming could practically be eliminated.
I have great respect and compassion for animals, and for the suffering of all beings.
No mention of the pain of animals killed. Fellow living creatures. Plants are different.
Thank you for your comment, Irwin. You have given voice to feelings that are shared by many. Here's my response:
1) Substack (or rather, Gmail's ability to accommodate email articles) limits the length of my writing, and even breaking this series into three articles, I’m at the limit. My primary focus is nutrition, though I do understand the far-reaching complexities of this issue. I cannot address everything. My third article will mention this concern.
2) Pasture-raised and hunted animals live natural lives until the moment of death, and are killed humanely. Here is a podcast in which this is described in detail by a regenerative bison farmer. They take the utmost care in attending to their animals. https://drhyman.com/blog/2023/07/12/podcast-ep748/
3) There’s increasing evidence that plants and fungi do feel pain, and that they put out distress signals in the form of sound waves that our ears cannot hear, but special machines can. They also communicate via mycelial networks, issuing warning signals when under attack by insects, etc. This is a fascinating new field of inquiry.
4) Animals are killed by habitat destruction, cars, planes, pollution, agriculture, soil degradation, and so much more. Millions of birds are killed by airplanes every year, and air travel also contributes far more to carbon emissions than livestock farming — yet there is no cry for people to stop flying.
5) Dairy and egg farming does not kill animals.
6) If everyone ate meat judiciously, factory farming could practically be eliminated.
I have great respect and compassion for animals, and for the suffering of all beings.
Yael