Little pieces of information dropped in articles like this one really put a dent in the idea that consumers are just ignorant about how awful animal agriculture is. This is not about welfare at all, it’s just farmers complaining about how expensive mass slaughter of sentient beings for profit is becoming, but just a small selection of the casually offered facts:
This farm is Red Tractor certified (the highest U.K. standard), they raise 1.5 million birds per year packed into a massive warehouse and poultry sheds, looked after by only three full time employees. The chickens are taken for slaughter between 32 and 39 days old, transported in crates. They are usually gassed.
None of this makes people think twice about the idea that the mass farming of animals for food, even by the best farms, is somehow ‘humane?’ How can anyone put any stock in animal welfare assurances from these people? Ask yourself honestly, do you really believe that any of this is is ethical, for a product most of us don’t even need?
Somebody might have pointed this out before, but how exactly did Aang & Co. get back to the fire nation with a defeated Ozai in tow?
Awkward bison ride in the saddle listening to him rant about ethnic genocide? Did they strap him to one of Appa’s legs? Dangle him from a basket? Leave him on a cliff for somebody else to come collect??
The bison was already at the Fire Nation! Katara and Zuko flew to the Capital City on Appa. The only option for the gaang to get out of that giant rock pillar forest was for Sokka and Toph to repair any damage to the airship Suki commandeered and fly back.
They probably just let Ozai sit on a chair in the employee lounge for the ride back. Probably didn’t even bother to tie him up, since, as Sokka loudly pointed out, he wasn’t a threat to anyone anymore.
Would Ozai’s introduction to metalbending be when Toph causually reconstructs a fallen airship in front of him while shit talking Sokka and/or Ozai?
Because talk about a terrifying thing to encounter on the heels of losing your bending. Four children just took down you and your entire fleet and as far as you can tell two of them are borderline gods.
(I think Toph would need to be talked out of enthusiastically mounting him on the front of the airship like a figurehead on a boat. She would appreciate the symbolism, and the screaming.)
Yes, Ozai’s introduction to this half of the Gaang would be watching a fifteen-year-old walk a lap around and then figure out how to repair the ship that took dozens of his best minds to design, instructing a twelve-year-old how to reshape massive swaths of metal with her bare hands as casually as Ozai would instruct his tailors to lower the hem of his sleeve. The other girl keeps playing with a steel fan in front of him. Is she trying to intimidate him? He’s already intimidated enough. Where did she even get that fan, though?
Okay but Sokka’s leg is super duper broken at this point, right? So he isn’t walkinga lap around the airship and then figuring out how to repair it at a glance – The Avatar is like, floating him around on a throne of stone, or airbending him regally around so that his feet never need to touch the ground.
And then this little gremlin of a human, who is displaying the greatest bending prowess Ozai has ever seen outside if another twelve-year-old handing him his own ass a little bit ago, is listening to what this random Water Tribe kid has to say.
Queue the existential crisis of Ozai’s life over whothis all-powerful teen must be, and whatkind of bending prowess he has to have that the Avataris serving him as a palanquin bearer
The airship is more reasonable, but consider the crack/humor potential of the Gaang road-tripping to the nearest village or landmark, dragging Ozai along behind them, fixing the landscape damage from the final battle in between insulting him and generally making him regret existing.
Like, World’s Worst Father over here has next to no experience with a) children, b) low social status/losing a fight, or c) camping, and now we’re going to make him deal with all three for at least a few days before everyone else recovers and comes to pick them up on Appa. They would absolutely crank the bickering and side trips and petty bullshit to the maximum, specifically to fuck with him, and it would be glorious.
