Of course, animals are NEVER mistreated in non-halal farms and abattoirs across the UK. No, that would never happen
For me, it is more about time, if you know what I mean ... it wasn't very long ago our butchering processes were less humane than they are now, a matter of a few decades I would guess. Just because some people have changed their ways and decided that this is best, why should we expect everybody else to just follow what we do? Maybe they will in decades to come, "kids" generally drive these things, and we can see how outspoken they are at the moment.
But maybe they won't. We spent
millennia butchering animals any way we could, and in the past, probably treated them better while they were alive than we do today, and wasted almost nothing. What's to say that our method of rearing and butchering animals is "best"? From both animal welfare and sustainability, our farming methods are bad. Add that to the hugely wasteful meat packaging industry (mostly plastic now) and refrigeration (energy and more waste) we really are not doing too well.
Maybe we should go back to a simpler method? I often think that if we could go back to buy meat on the day you want to cook it, from a butcher that butchered it that morning, many of today's problems in the food supply chain would be solved. But how do we get there? Certainly not by criticising people who do no follow our methods.
It wasn't long ago there was a livestock market in town, when it meant farmers taking their cows etc into town to sell to butchers. Change is not always progress.
- I was thinking about this the other day, when I thought to myself, "do we really need a fridge?". I decided the answer was yes, as sometimes I need a cold beer.