The problem is perhaps much more fundamental than the market value of meat as a commodity. I think the present society does little to educate a child on the moral and humane aspects of life and society. Our major goal today is to make sure that our children grow up to be rich and famous. Throughout history, people have been given gruesome accounts of slaughter in our art, music and literature. It appears that they only served as entertainment, since the carnage of human atrocity keeps raging in every continent on one scale or another, on every terrestrial species, often in the name of religion, national interest, supremacy, or sports.
Humans are indeed master killers.
The need for protein can be largely, if not completely, met by non-animal sources. Sailen Barik, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of South Alabama College of Medicine 307 University Blvd. Inc. All rights reserved. We welcome your opinion.