The Tradition in Food Preparation

Making food isn't really associated with animal cruelty, volunteering, or ARF.  However, it poses a much more broad question that needs to be tackled with a logical point of view.

 Many cultures have certain traditions in the way they prepare food. Many cultures have unethical ways of preparing certain foods, whether it's by accident, or it's an ancient tradition.  The problem is that many culture prepare their food in violent and inhumane ways.  Making sushi for example is, in many cases, bad.  They kill the animal right when it is ready to be cooked, and they do this in ways to keep the animal alive as long as possible.  That means they don't give it a quick death, and it has to suffer.  The argument is that as humans, we have an obligation to be as humane as possibly when we kill animals for food.  Other animals prey on food and kill it brutally, but as humans we have the knowledge to do this in a better fashion.  There is nothing wrong with culture, however, it is not the best way to prepare food.  It tortures the animal to an unnecessary degree.  The same is true for Westernized countries like America.  We don't have a traditional way of preparing animals.  However, our industrialized process inflicts harm on an animal.  Animals should be killed in a fashion that garuntees no harm.  Products like veal are another question that is simply unanswerable, despite the cruelty that is involved simply for our benefit.