Food. Besides, farmers don't torture the animal before they kill it, do
they?

You've never visited the killing floor at a slaughterhouse, I'm =
thinking. It's pretty horrible. Do you remember Clarice's soliloquy =
about slaughtering the lambs in "Silence of the Lambs"? That was an =
accurate portrayal. It's not nice and could be done much more humanely =
but that would not be cost effective.=20

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