Meet Your Meat: WARNING - Extremely Graphic Animal Cruelty

DriftingByTheStorm
DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
I'm not joking.
I stumbled upon the following... sadly, i was actually googling "phil spector hair" to see his new hairdo ... the blog that contained the write up had this link on the sidebar:

meat.org - the website the meat industry doesn't want you to see
WARNING: The Video is EXTREMELY Graphic

You have been warned.
Seriously.
If you have ANY desire to keep eating meat without getting sick, or if you have chicken in the oven, i'd NOT click the link.
It will FUCK you UP!

I am no hippy.
I was a vegetarian for a year, about ten years ago.

After watching this, i just very well may start again.
Until i can raise my own animals.
Blech!

BLECH BLECH BLECH!

*narrated by alec baldwin, not that it maters
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    This is worse

    http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=fff4f07a-f27f-4c5d-a6e4-4f678a083f5e
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    That first video was pretty horrendous...

    I HATE eggs! Probably because when I was a kid, my dad used to take me to "egg farms" to pick up our weekly dozen eggs, and we'd have to go right into these huge barns crammed with chickens...I hated it. Fortunately all the egg farms have long since closed and we live in an agricultural community...so we have access to free-range everything...and we can see where most of our food comes from...

    Not a whole lot of people are as fortunate...and that's a damn shame...

    I didn't watch the dog video...Accidently saw some of that once and bawled my eyes out for days....
    be philanthropic
  • MahoganySouls
    MahoganySouls Posts: 357
    This is what happens once people adopt the mindset that they are "just" animals.

    Respect life, in any form.
    "When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    http://www.eatwild.com/references.html

    Rankins, D. L., Jr. "The Importance of by-Products to the U.S. Beef Industry." Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract 18, no. 2 (2002): 207-11, v. "The use of by-products as nutrient sources for beef cattle will continue to be driven by economics. As landfill prices continue to escalate, more by-product will become economically viable as cattle feed. These considerations will be counter-balanced by safety concerns. American consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with the production aspects of their food. The environmental concerns associated with additional landfills will have to be balanced against which by-products consumers will accept in the production of the beef that they consume. These will most assuredly heighten over the coming years."
    Johnson, J. C., Jr., and W. C. McCormick. "Ensiled Diet Containing Processed Municipal Garbage and Sorghum Forage for Heifers." J Dairy Sci 58, no. 11 (1975): 1672-6.
    Johnson, J. C., Jr. "Aerobic Digested Municipal Garbage as a Feedstuff for Cattle." J of Animal Science 41, no. 5 (1975): 1487-95.

    that's just part of it.
  • New Orleans Dude
    New Orleans Dude Posts: 61
    and this shit is hardly ever on the news....

    i couldnt watch the whole thing, it just pisses me off and gets me sad.
    makes me wanna go to one of those farms, get a crow bar and just beat the living shit out of one of those cruel farmers
    im awesome
  • ADogNamedPilate
    ADogNamedPilate Texas, USA Posts: 291
    "Rock And Roll McDonalds"
    Austin City Limits - Oct 04, 2009
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Developing humans are largely sheltered from the reality of life.

    Ironically, most people don't believe that animals are conscious, they believe that humans are not animals and consciousness is what separates us. I do believe animals are conscious, probably most of them are, including chickens. But damn I love chicken and the way in which they are slaughtered is barely provoking. I've been well aware of this reality for a long time.

    Just do me a favor, if you choose to go vegan, don't deprive your newborn child of the proteins and fatty acids they need to survive for your own ideological agenda.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • MahoganySouls
    MahoganySouls Posts: 357
    I can't stop thinking about this video. I even had a hard time grocery shopping this week.

    We live about an hour from Amish community. We have discussed ordering our meat from them since they do not engage in such practices. They respect life and are kind gentle people.
    "When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
  • MahoganySouls
    MahoganySouls Posts: 357
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Developing humans are largely sheltered from the reality of life.

    Ironically, most people don't believe that animals are conscious, they believe that humans are not animals and consciousness is what separates us. I do believe animals are conscious, probably most of them are, including chickens. But damn I love chicken and the way in which they are slaughtered is barely provoking. I've been well aware of this reality for a long time.

    Just do me a favor, if you choose to go vegan, don't deprive your newborn child of the proteins and fatty acids they need to survive for your own ideological agenda.
    Proteins and fatty acids can come from other sources besides flesh.
    "When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    MahoganySouls wrote:
    Proteins and fatty acids can come from other sources besides flesh.

    Tofu isn't a very good source and it's hard for a baby to swallow. Mom's Milk is the best.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • MahoganySouls
    MahoganySouls Posts: 357
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Tofu isn't a very good source and it's hard for a baby to swallow. Mom's Milk is the best.
    LOL I agree with you there that breastfeeding is best, but what does this have to do with animal abuse?
    "When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    MahoganySouls wrote:
    LOL I agree with you there that breastfeeding is best, but what does this have to do with animal abuse?

    It was sort of an off-the-cuff remark about veganism. Not related I suppose.

    I personally think animals are treated fairly well, relatively speaking. What would reduce the cruelty and create a more humane approach to animal slaughter would be a broader education of the public on the fact that humans are also animals and aside from one tiny part of the brain are virtually identical, cognitively. This means that beating up a chicken is just as bad as beating up a human. Unless you apply more value to humans in some other respect. I'm sure everyone does. Even the staunchest vegetarians and PETA members.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I was gonna eat my left over fettucine with chicken, but now I have a craving for chicken fingers or a big crunch chicken sandwich, maybe some chicken nuggets or fried chicken pieces or popcorn chicken from kentucky fried chicken.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I was gonna eat my left over fettucine with chicken, but now I have a craving for chicken fingers or a big crunch chicken sandwich, maybe some chicken nuggets or fried chicken pieces or popcorn chicken from kentucky fried chicken.

    :D Seriously with the shitty diet you have, I'm surprised that your brain works as well as it does love! ;)
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    bump
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Seriously with the shitty diet you have, I'm surprised that your brain works as well as it does love! ;)

    I take Centrum ;)
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Whew that was tough to take and now I'll just have some broccoli and rice. Has anyone ever heard of the book by John Robbins....Diet for a New America???
    This well-documented expose of America's "factory farms" should prompt even die-hard meat-and-potatoes lovers to reevaluate their diets. Asserting that "we are ingesting nightmares for breakfast, lunch and dinner," Robbins, who is medical director of the California Institute for Health and Healing, details how livestock is raised under increasingly industrialized conditions by "agribusiness oligopolies." Grazing and foraging have given way to debeaking, tail-docking, dehorning and castration, and treatment with pesticides, hormones, growth and appetite stimulants, tranquilizers and antibioticswhich, in turn, are assimilated by humans. The author correlates our "protein obsessed" society with a higher incidence of arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, cancer and other degenerative diseases, as well as freakish occurrences like premature puberty from estrogen contamination. As Robbins debunks nutritional myths perpetuated by the powerful meat and dairy industries (indicting as well his family's Baskin-Robbins ice-cream empire), this is sure to prove controversial. Photos not seen by PW.
    Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc

    It made a huge difference in my life after reading this book.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I take Centrum ;)

    :D Gotta love those vitamin tablets! :p



    Drifting sorry, but I'll not be watching the video, I've seen way too many of them.

    What I would like to say is that we need to move forward assuming that some people will continue to consume meat and provide the best possible practice for the care of those animals and best practice in their slaughter.
    Regardless of whether you are a carnivore, vegetarian or vegan, we all need to eat to survive and what we do need to see is more effort put into sustainable food production that doesn't rape and pillage the planet just for the sake of the almighty dollar.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,632
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Developing humans are largely sheltered from the reality of life.

    Ironically, most people don't believe that animals are conscious, they believe that humans are not animals and consciousness is what separates us. I do believe animals are conscious, probably most of them are, including chickens. But damn I love chicken and the way in which they are slaughtered is barely provoking. I've been well aware of this reality for a long time.

    Just do me a favor, if you choose to go vegan, don't deprive your newborn child of the proteins and fatty acids they need to survive for your own ideological agenda.


    Its really not about going vegan, so much as it is finding ways to make more human methods of meat processing.

    There is no way that it has to be like that.
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,632
    MahoganySouls wrote:
    Proteins and fatty acids can come from other sources besides flesh.

    Not complete proteins. Clearly, the human body was designed to use meat as a food source, and needs it. Especially in developing children.

    However, we can certainly treat animals humanely, stop giving them hormones and antiboitics, and CERTAINLY sut down on our American proportions.

    But most people dont care. Even the ones that do, they might send this to a few friends, and a week later forget about it.
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission

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