What Farming Features Do You Want Most?

"Nikkih;c-17810300" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17810091" wrote:
I think a lot of anti meat people are actually pescatarian because it's not the principle of eating meat itself (for some, that is indeed the case) but the torture of the animals that comes with the industry and they don't want to support it. Some people only eat free range meats.

Also, if we're going to be real about it, humans eat way more meat than they are supposed to, at least in the US. We're not supposed to be eating huge slabs every day, all year, certainly not multiple times a day. I used to see a nutritionist who was also a food scientist for over 20 years in the industry and she told me that the push for meat in "The Big 4" (food groups) was just to promote meat farmers who were struggling in the industry at that time and they needed people to buy more meat. It was just another marketing ploy from a corporation. She had some really eye opening information about the food industry.

I think I prefer a more idealistic or fantasy farming concept. Steampunk farming with giant, belching faux meat and cheese machines where you throw the ingredients in to get various results, and animals peacefully corralled outdoors for eggs, wool, milk, and social company, who also function as a family petting zoo. Call me a sissy but modern food farming is ugly.

Although I respect your comment, almost all animals kill for meat the difference is for humans in modern day is that we dont have to hunt for it anymore, farmers do that job for us, you could ask why should humans be any different?, humans have been eating meat way before farmers existed, we had speers and killed the animal ourselves and if we are eating too much meat perhaps that is a conversation for a farmer or fisherman, as a meat eater we are going to eat anything on the shelves, meat is good for you theres protein, nutrition and iron, it's good the immune system aswell, fish is good for the skin, hair and nail growth there is purpose for it, of course theres other options for to get that but do you know what I enjoy a real burger, a bacon roll and beef dinner ? its everyones own personal views and beliefs, at the end of day life is always going to be cruel, no matter how much we have evolved were still an animal and animals eating other animals is natural, some could also say a zoo is cruel unless the animal cant survive in the wild

I don't have a problem with people eating animals in general. I have a problem with the torturous conditions they are kept in on some of these "meat farms" for mass production. That's not nature "being cruel", it's a faction of the meat farming industry. Hunting or keeping livestock in natural outdoor conditions is reasonable. I think it would be more practical to use every part of the animal for full efficiency, though. I had a friend who used to go deer hunting and eat the meat. He would bring the carcass to a butcher who would prepare the steaks for him and in return would keep all the extra meat and good stewing bones and stuff for his shop. It was a very sensible practice and yes, I tried the venison.

I'm well aware that humans have eaten meat for a very long time. We are omnivores which is why our teeth have both sharp and blunt shapes. But very few societies have lived on huge amounts of meat alone. In the days before refrigeration, you couldn't just freeze the unused portions. It would get eaten at once and the remains dried and cured into shrunken bits to consume later. Historically, if people ate meat every day, they wouldn't have any farm animals left, lol. Often even the fat was saved for flavoring bread and bones for soups, so meat didn't need to be consumed on such a regular basis. And regarding hunting going way back; tracking, trapping, skinning, curing and cooking any wild animal is exhausting, dangerous and time consuming. So fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, roots and any other natural edible would have been far easier and more practical to eat on a regular basis. Meat, historically, was consumed in moderation most of the time. Meat doesn't actually contain any vitamins or health benefits that you can't get elsewhere and some meats can actually be more harmful to the diet in excess and without the right accompanying exercise, particularly in the modern era where people tend to be a lot less active.

Anyway, I wasn't judging anyone. I eat meat maybe once or twice a month myself, I was just joining the conversation about the farming and food industry and what the game should or shouldn't have.

Also, yes, many zoos are cruel as well. I wouldn't want that sort in my game either. But a wild safari or preservation land with wild animals could be fun.