Thanks for your thread... I became a vegatarian three weeks ago and don't miss or crave meat at all, it is hard to have such limited choices in what to eat though. Today I was picking out some Lean Cuisines and 85% of them have meat. Really, I feel fine though.

Won't be watching the video though! I believe it without having to see it but, I appreciate you're courage and Thank You for reinforcing things for me- my determination to not eat meat is now stronger than ever.

This is one of those videos that I wont watch. We should revere the animals we consume for food more than the ones we marvel at in the zoo by making sure they run around and enjoy their life in a proper natural environment and are killed in the proper manor.

I just hope the corruption stops with the people that inspect these places.

Damn, i got to 50 minutes and just could not longer watch this. I am at a lose as to how to explain this. I am a meat eater as well, and this has seriously sickened me. Would i eat meat if I myself had to kill it? yes, as i would do it more humanly and would allow the animal a better standard of living. But i cant do this. I cant raise cattle out my back door. This is truely shocking, i have never thought of becoming vegatarian, but honestly, this makes you wonder why we are not.

Hopefully we can do something about this one day, but i seriously doubt we will. People only care about one thing in this life, money. If it saves money then they will do it. Free range and all that is good, but again its money that plays the part in that too. And who knows how the animal gets slaughtered anyway? It might live all rght then be brutally killed like the rest. Unfortunately i don not see this ever changing, most, not all though, dont care, and as i said they are more interested in money and not the animals welfare

I didn't watch the video, I am an animal lover and it would screw me up totally.

That being said, here at my home we have chickens and pigs. I care about all my critters and there are a few that I love, they are pets and we don't eat them. We take the pigs to a local slaughter house and have it done right. We buy our beef from a family that raises the cows and has them slaughtered humanely and what we pay helps them purchase more cows. Right now in my area beef runs $3.00/lb. Seems expensive until you consider you are getting steaks and roasts and the very best lean burger.
The eggs you buy in the store are months old. The eggs my girls lay are absolutely the best, plus they look pretty in my fridge....
Edited to add pics of some of my babies. This is Mojo,Gris Gris, and Bunny. Thought people might like to see happy cared for animals after that video...

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