Disturbing Bit About Industry Meat

[Destroit]

I knew that feedlot meat was bad...but I had no idea it was this disturbing. If you seriously can watch this whole video and still walk into your grocery store and eat industry meat (which SEVERELY impacting the health of you and your children with harmful and unnatural antibiotics and hormones anyway) then that's horribly disgusting and imo you should be ashamed. Really, only the people living in destitute poverty have an excuse for that, imo.

http://www.goveg.com/f_vote_veg_video.asp

After seeing this, I buy farm raised everything from now on. On farms animals at least can have some dignity and happiness before they're slaughtered just for meat we hardly need (since the average American consumes massive unnecessary amounts per day), they can run in the sun and actually MOVE more than two inches on each side. I'm not trying to push anyone to be vegetarian or vegan or anything like that, I personally think that's rather extremist and unhealthy. I can understand why some people do it and I guess I respect them for that, but I'm definately not vegetarian, but I am definately for the ethical treatment of animals. I understand eating them means death and pain, death and pain is a big part of life, but why go OUT OF YOUR WAY to intensify their misery and suffering, especially when they're innocent beings? ESPECIALLY...for money and greed. The people in charge of these industries should be shot, imo, publicly.

I can't understand how humans think we're so advanced . Something needs to change and it's up to the consumer, if we can treat animals THAT horribly, who hurt, fear, cry, have pain, and can't rationalize it like we can (makes it all the more tragic) than this country isn't worth a piece of shit IMO. We're supposed to be leaders and be better than that.

Watch the entire thing for the truth. I put this in current events by the way, because well, it kinda is. People are now becoming more aware than ever how corrupted and appalling the USDA and feedlot farms are and now it's the time to do something about this, it's gone on far too long.

[Pandora]

Watched the video, am disgusted. I rarely eat meat, but if I do in the future I'll be buying mine from Whole Foods, which demands free range everything. Also Trader Joes. Switching back to soy milk as well.

I have zero problem eating animals, they are a necessary food source for a good portion of the world, but I'd much rather eat them with far less violence and a quality of life higher than what was shown in the video.

Good post.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I ate a ham sandwhich while I watched it.

[Steven]

Watched the video, am disgusted. I rarely eat meat, but if I do in the future I'll be buying mine from Whole Foods, which demands free range everything. Also Trader Joes. Switching back to soy milk as well.

Whole Foods? you must be rich

(said in jest - but dont miss the point......vatos is broke these days and will have to cut corners)

[Rev.Reverence]

Whole Foods? you must be rich

(said in jest - but dont miss the point......vatos is broke these days and will have to cut corners)

OOO...

I concur whole heartedly, I can not afford the 'proper' diet.

So, I compromise...

Also, I don't DO fast food, except in 'emergency situations'... (I don't like fainting).

[Destroit]

I ate a ham sandwhich while I watched it.

Nice comment, Gaf

Also, Pandora, thanks for the word "range", I couldn't remeber the term for it.

[Sybil]

Cher, I clicked on the link ... it didnt work?

:(

[Destroit]

Cher, I clicked on the link ... it didnt work?

:(

Crap...I'll have to look into that when I'm at home and not on a work computer.

It's something anyone who consumes meat needs to see, at least know what you're doing those innocent beings, ya know?

If you want to look it up before I post a new link, you can find it at www.peta.org and the movie is called "Meet your meat". It's a video of a PETA activist who posed as being a non activist and went into slaughter houses with a hidden camera.

You would be shocked and appalled to see it. It's horribly dispicable what unneccesary pain and torture those animals have to go through including beatings with a metal rod (for no reason sometimes, just fun by the workers), castration/branding/and pulling out of horns on cows with no pain reliever, boiling pigs alive to get the hair off, hanging them upside down by their feet which has claws digging into their ankles as they're passed along an assembly line for hours, transportation where they fit like 500 pigs in one truck where many are frozen to death, have broken limbs from the weight of other pigs, or die from shock. Also, all egg laying chickens have their beaks SEARED OFF of their face by a hot blade. Lemme give you an idea of what that would be like: See your fingers? Heat up a butcher knife and chop them off slowly.

Those are just a FEW things that happen...which are STANDARD (and happen to EVERY animal that goes through a feedlot slaughterhouse...everytime you've ever eaten a burger, pork chop, or chicken wing YOU the consumer are directly responsible for the suffering of that being and you probably don't even realize it).

Like I said, I understand we need meat, but not at that cost, I'm sorry. I refuse to be a disgusting and selfish individual. I know that humans are inclined to be such but we need to try and move PAST our selfish egos, not cater to them...I believe that humans can do better than that.

[jadnifer]

The link is still not working. I am interested in seeing this video.

[Destroit]

Crap, sorry guys, it's on one of my sticky notes on my "Big Wall of things I need to do expressed in Post-It form".

I'll do it tonight, since I'm FREEEEEEEEEE!

[jadnifer]

Girl, I love ya, but it's still not fixed.

[jynxxxedangel]

I have the system beat-- my freezer is full of things I shot out in the woods (yep, Bambi and Thumper, and a few of their feathered friends are in there).. All natural and free-range, baybay!

I think MORE people would harvest their own wild game, if they knew what they were eating out of those nice, shiny packages from the butcher shop. I KNOW where MY meat came from!