Well I like meat. Sorry folks, I'm a carnivore; what can I say?
Fortunately, what meat I don't harvest myself I get from a local butcher who gets his product from local farms. So whether I'm dressing a deer or
fileting a bass, or the guy down the road slices my bacon and sells me eggs, I know that it is done as humanely as possible.
Watching the pork video made me cringe. That type of cruelty is wanton and unnecessary. I hope that it showed the worst of the worst and that this
type of thing isn't commonplace.
As far as the chicken grindage, I don't think there is any faster way to kill chickens. If there were, the industry would have picked up on it by now.
In this case what's good for the company is, ironically, good for the chicken as well. The faster the company can kill the chicks, the more profit it
can make; also, the faster the chicks are killed, the less they suffer. I'm pretty sure that the ground up chicks find their way into cat and dog food
too, so nothing is wasted.
The problem I have with the poultry industry is something the video didn't cover - how those chickens that are kept to lay eggs and eventually be sold
as breasts, strips, and nuggets live out their lives.
If the small farmer weren't nearly extinct, replaced by mega farming corporations, we wouldn't have these problems. There was a time when the majority
of Americans were farmers, or in some way associated with farming. We've turned the responsibility for feeding us over to these corporations, whose
only concern is their profit margin, and this is the price
we pay; substandard food raised under questionable circumstances.
Grow your own. You'll feel better, both physically and spiritually.
edit on 8/27/2011 by OldCorp because: (no reason given)