Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’m curious to hear more about what you mean by “ethical farming practices” in the context of “without exploitation”. Or maybe more generally how you define “exploitation”?
To me, exploitation is exerting control over others to gain something or benefit in some way. Which would include things like taking milk from an animal who put in work of pregnancy (and motherhood) to produce it for her child. And often involves killing her child to free up the milk as a resource to be taken.
In this way, animal agriculture seems rooted in exploitation and we’re just left to decide in what ways we want to be a part of that.
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