>
http://www.pagenews.info/
>
> Pete Gersten...
>
> "UNIMAGINABLE ANIMAL CRUELTY
>
> This video is not for the faint of heart - or stomach for
> that matter.
>
> So do you think that people who eat meat are co-conspirators
> in the murders of these animals?
>
> Whenever I read this type of article I am reminded of the
> cosmic rule "What goes around - comes around."
>
> ---
>
> Every day, hundreds of animals endured unimaginable cruelty
> at this
> AgriProcessors slaughterhouse. Maybe after seeing the fear
> and pain
> on the faces of the animals we captured on videotape, you
> will go
> vegetarian and persuade family and friends to join you."
>
>
http://www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/
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> AgriProcessors workers ignore the suffering of cattle who
> are still
> sensible to pain after having their throats slit by the
> ritual slaughterer.
> The animals stagger and slip in blood while their tracheas
> dangle from
> their necks.
>
> WATCH the five-minute video.
>
>
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=agri_short
>
> WATCH the full-length video.
>
>
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=agri_long
Watching meat being made is like watching an abortion. It's too disgusting and heartwrenching for words and sometimes we question ourselves on why we even allow it to happen.
I agree the way animals are raised and slaughtered desperately needs to change because it IS cruel enough to raise an animal for slaughter without giving it a hellish life while it's on this earth. These tiny stalls they're cooped up in is wrong. Cattle and pigs should have wide open "free range" spaces and as quick and painless a death as possible BEFORE butchering.
But you can't change some facts of life. People love to eat meat. The vegan/vegetarian market, which has tried to innovate meatless "meat" products (Tofurkey anyone?) tend to forget these products don't have the TASTE of meat. In fact, most have a CARDBOARD taste and texture of rubber padding (do these people even compare the taste of their products to the real thing BEFORE they put it out on the market?)
My wife and I tried the vegan life for a year until we just couldn't stand the way everything tasted anymore. It was so bland. I'm a big man that likes to eat big and the portions of this vegetarian food in proportion to taste and money spent just don't add up to value.
There are some Indian and Thai vegetarian dishes I LOVE. But I couldn't eat them ALL the time. I would go crazy without a nice juicy burger once in a while.
The reality is vegetarian/veganism is an accquired lifestyle. Humans are omnivores (can eat pretty much anything.) and no one can be MADE a vegetarian.
This post has all the effect of an anti-abortion poster with dismembered fetuses on it. It's gross and counterproductive and in the end, changes nothing.
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