Vegetarians

[Axtech]

[happening fish]

[sandsleeper]

[Joey]

[Joey]

[happening fish]

[Joey]

[superboots]

[starseed_10]

[Joey]

It's not about necessarily 'saving animals' .. it's about personal taste and personal morals .. not everyone feels comfortable with eating something that was abused and slaughtered and tortured. That's how I see it anyway .. it's disgusting to me.

[sandsleeper]

[Johnny]

[Sufjan Stevens]

[Joey]

[sandsleeper]

you know, i believe there are some places called "free range" hen houses or something where the hens are not kept in such cages and have a slightly better life. not sure which egg companies do this though, it would be a good thing to look into...

[sandsleeper]

hmm.. never mind, i just did some reading about free-range hens and that doesn't look so hot either...


hmm... maybe i should look into getting some pet chickens...

[Joey]

I'm probably getting annoying with all my quotes and stuff but yeah, been doing a lot of research.

"Consumers believe "free-range" hens and cows live happily and peacefully until they are slaughtered. But no laws or standards regulate the use of terms like "free-range" and "free-roaming." In fact, common cruel industry practices used in factory farms, such as debeaking, forced molting, and literally throwing away male chicks at birth, also take place at many "free-range" farms. Of course all the animals are slaughtered whenever it is deemed most profitable. According to The Washington Post Magazine, the term "free-range," especially in the case of birds, "doesn’t really tell you anything about the [animal’s] quality of life, nor does it even assure that the animal actually goes outdoors." From the "free-range" hen who smells fresh air for the first time on the way to the slaughterhouse to the "humanely raised" dairy cow whose male baby is taken away from her at birth and sold to veal farmers, all animals raised for food suffer and are exploited. Even small, family-run dairy farms often have no choice but to send their older cows to slaughter and their newborn males to veal farms."

[starseed_10]

how is it doing any justice though by not eating these animals? Just because of some corporate bastards, why deny yourself the gift of being able to eat meat?

[sandsleeper]

the point is not that you're doing justice.

if you feel comfortable eating meat whilst knowing all this then fine.

however some people do feel uncomfortable about it, and have different degrees of this uncomfortableness, so they choose to avoid eating these products.

[Joey]