Welcome to The Change Underground System Ethical Considerations Page!

To fully understand this section, we have to comprehend the current dominant food production methods in the western world. While here in Australia, most beef and lamb is still paddock raised and finished, there is a growing trend towards feedlotting. Once we add in the factory farming of chickens and pigs, major ethical questions arise. Is it right to consume meat from animals that have been raised in such conditions? How does the eating of such flesh affect us in a physical way? How does it affect us in a metaphysical way?

Such meat is produced by trucking large amounts of grain to the stock, using chemically based fertilizer to grow the grain and then the beasts are trucked to abattoirs and then the meat is trucked to butchers or supermarkets. The greenhouse foot print of each kilo of meat is frightening.

By using The Change Underground System we immediately remove the transporting and fertilizer costs from the ethical equation. Now some people will not be able to slaughter or will  choose not the slaughter animals in their care, for ethical reasons. This does not preclude them from using the system. Rabbits, goats and sheep can be kept for fleeces or purely for companionship. This being the case they still provide the necessary manures. I have no ethical qualms when it comes to slaughtering animals for food. Especially when The System allows then to exhibit their natural behaviours. They live full satisfying lives, expressing their chicken-ness, goat-ness or whatever particular "ness" applies to their species. And this is critical. Happy, expressive animals produce better and healthier food. They are stress free and a joy to be around. By keeping animals this way, we are better people for doing so.

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