Meet your Meat.

If everyone turned into vegetarians, wouldn't many food businesses such as Burger king, McDonalds, etc. fall?

No they would adapt and serve veggie burgers.

 

[Rawr]

If they're being sent to a slaughter house anyway, I don't see a problem in being "cruel" to an animal if it increases productivity and profit.

I just find it completely disturbing beating an animal to near death, then having it hung in a slaughter house having it's throat slit and bleed to death. And, if you've seen how the animals are surrounded by feces, other dead animals, and diseases; why would you want such things to go into your body? I'd rather have a nature creature that lived a good life, in my stomach then one, that looks like they did in the video.

I think animals deserve rights to some extent, and that realistically avoidable cruelty should be... avoided. Animals have emotions and their own social institutions.

Finally, someone realistic has come to semi-agree with me.

Anyway; I think that this is only completely fair. Animals like Sharks and Bulls attack and kill humans all the time. Don't tell me you've never heard of an animal going on a rampage and killing someone?

Most animals like that are wild, and haven't had proper surroundings to go off of. Sharks only attack because we enter their territory and expect to be welcomed when they can only live off meat. I've never to to see a vegetarian Shark. If you have, please show. And Bulls harm people because we torture them for entertainment, etc. These habits are in their nature and would be expected. Do we really need to treat the food we it with such little respect? Give them a decent life so they have something to live for.

 

[Infernal Dave]

No they would adapt and serve veggie burgers.

But the taste counts. If they tasted the same, or possibly even better than regular meat burgers, then the companies would switch to them.

 

[Rawr]

But the taste counts. If they tasted the same, or possibly even better than regular meat burgers, then the companies would switch to them.

Taste would count, but I don't think everyone would go vegetarian. I think simply everyone would protest how how animals are treated and would want the ways of the animals life-style changed. Like free-roaming animals for example, and if the industries didn't respond with a positive result. Then people would go vegetarian causing the meat industries to crash, then they may change their minds.

 

[Feren Silver]

Hey everyone, just thought I'd show you how your meat is prepared.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4

It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. I mean, how can you treat animals so cruelly when there living creatures just like us. This shows why vegitarians don't eat meat.

Give your thoughts on this. Hope you think twice before you eat meat.

I don't eat meat, but that doesn't mean that it's because animals are abused... Your comment seems like a bit of a stereotype. :huh:

I just find it completely disturbing beating an animal to near death, then having it hung in a slaughter house having it's throat slit and bleed to death. And, if you've seen how the animals are surrounded by feces, other dead animals, and diseases; why would you want such things to go into your body? I'd rather have a nature creature that lived a good life, in my stomach then one, that looks like they did in the video.

Face it, people want meat for as cheap as possible. The reason companies like McDonald's are so popular is the fact that they sell cheap food, meat in particular. Would people eat there if they charged way more because they treated the animals well?

 

[Rahul]

If humans aren't gonna rip them up to eat, then the lions will!

 

[Shredderbeam]

I think animals deserve rights to some extent, and that realistically avoidable cruelty should be... avoided. Animals have emotions and their own social institutions. Humans have merely evolved some capacities which these other animals lack.

Rationality is necessary to have any rights at all. Sensibility is merely the enabler.

 

[The Fat Controller]

Rationality is necessary to have any rights at all. Sensibility is merely the enabler.

Why is rationality necessary to have any rights at all?

 

[thequestionmark]

Meh, I wouldn't mind if this were fish, but most mammals have the capacity to understand pain...

Meat tastes way too good to give up, but despite Shredderbeam's argument, for me, the treatment is fucked up.

 

[Rawr]

Meh, I wouldn't mind if this were fish, but most mammals have the capacity to understand pain...

Meat tastes way too good to give up, but despite Shredderbeam's argument, for me, the treatment is fucked up.

I don't think they should completely get rid of meat products, they should just rationalize in how they treat the animals.

 

[LegitNamesCo]

This makes me hungry

 

[Shredderbeam]

Why is rationality necessary to have any rights at all?

All rights essentially spring from the principle of self-ownership, which itself comes from the ability of man to use reason to survive.

 

[soundgarden]

because their here for us to eat...i don't think u should hunt just have have a nice deer head next to the family picture and the clock, but if u need food who says u cant treat an animal badly(kill it) for food

 

[LegitNamesCo]

because their here for us to eat...i don't think u should hunt just have have a nice deer head next to the family picture and the clock, but if u need food who says u cant treat an animal badly(kill it) for food

I like hunting, but not trophy hunting.

Fuckkk that.

 

[varrasbelve]

Watching this video will realistically not make me stop eating meat, but I do not approve of the torture they put these animals through.

This may sound bad, but instead of letting them bleed out, why not just cut their head completely off? It would save time and suffering.

"100,000 pigs die before they even reach the slaughter house", Do you think if they improved the living conditions of those animals they would actually make a profit?

I also think there is no need to slaughter that many animals just for the sake of feeding people. The number of wasted lives in the process of feeding a few familys is unimaginable.

Well, at least those are my opinions.

 

[FireTorso]

This is gross...

But I love my burgers and hot dogs. Kill the animals!

 

[Rawr]

This may sound bad, but instead of letting them bleed out, why not just cut their head completely off? It would save time and suffering.

That's still sad, but at least they wouldn't have to suffer. I guess I could agree with this method.

 

[Deskull]

Would you kick a coyote which is going to attack a deer?

Depends, If I was going to attack the deer myself and eat it. Hell Yes. Otherwise, if I need not kill anything for food. Then eat up ote.

 

[The Fat Controller]

All rights essentially spring from the principle of self-ownership, which itself comes from the ability of man to use reason to survive.

Then why can't there be a distinction between moral agency and eligibility for moral consideration?

 

[Shredderbeam]

Then why can't there be a distinction between moral agency and eligibility for moral consideration?

Well to be eligible for moral consideration you must have rights, and to have rights you must have reason.

Unless you simply wish to treat animals nicely, in which case, you're welcome to.