Australian Animal Cruelty has stopped me wanting to eat meat - COMPLETELY.

GrassCity Sucks

GrassCity Sucks

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RainbowBrite86 said:
I find it hard to believe we weren't meant to eat animals since they're made up almost entirely of meat. (That's a joke.)

Anyway, in my neck of the woods there are quite a few Hmong families. My next door neighbors are Hmong. They have meat chickens in their yard in a tiny itty bitty little cage that they never come out of. When the family is ready to eat one, they just come outside and kill it. Every once in a while they kill a pig back there. One Hmong friend of mine said she accidently killed her dad's rooster because he ate something he shouldn't have so she slit his throat to get it out. I'm guessing she wasn't trained in chicken heimlech manuevers. I'm all for the humane treatment of animals, regardless of what they're used for. Just because you plan on killing them for food doesn't mean you have to be cruel.

But saying a cow's life is more valuable than a human's is ridiculous. Or that the Chinese people who eat dogs should be killed mercilessly. Wth. Part of being at the top of the food chain is getting to decide who is your food. How we decide who is our pet is completely arbitrary. Who decides a dog is cuter than a cow? So the dog is too cute to eat for Americans. Fine. Personally, the guinea pig is a little too cute for me to eat, but I'm not going to fly across the world and tell people to stop eating things I think are cute. Nobody gets to decide the value of anything's life. But, as part of nature, we're going to obtain our food as long as we can. being human just means we can do that while inflicting as little pain as possible.
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If I had people next door with livestock that are suffering, I'd report them in a heartbeat.
 
GrassCity Sucks

GrassCity Sucks

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RainbowBrite86 said:
They already have been. Apparently it's their religious right. So the city won't do anything about it.
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Politically Correct Bureaucratic Passivity strikes again :(

I'd have thought the RSPCA (or the equivalent in your country) wouldn't listen to any garbage about religious rights.

You can do a hidden camera job, or even just photos, and simply email the footage to the Animal Welfare League and RSPCA. Course, it's easy for me to say that: I don't know anything about them, or any possible 'retribution' from them, at you.

Sad thing too, is that many cultures around the would - historically - used to worship animals. Till Capitalism came along, and made money God :(
 
RainbowBrite86

RainbowBrite86

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Well. I'm really not into worshipping chickens. But since our town has such a large population of Hmong families, there isn't much the city can do without causing a huge uproar.
 
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xKuroiTaimax

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A happy animal is a tasty animal. I guess if you're going to slaughter an animal for food the least you can do is raise it with love or have them running about semi wild. But there isn't enough room for everyone to have backyard sheep (not in cages)... I love working on a farm. I just wish I could have my own or communes had their local family farms and things. I would probably miss processed food to an extent but I enjoy farm life. I promise I don't chase the chickens too much...

Hey, eat dog and I'll eat you
*GROWL*
 
RainbowBrite86

RainbowBrite86

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My mom has chickens. But they're egg laying hens and they're free range. They're very happy lil buggers. I don't care what any of them eat, though, i'm not slitting their throat to get food out.
 
Urca

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I dont care. At all. Well, at least about the way they are killed, I have much much more of a problem with what they do to baby chickens and baby pigs. But will that stop me from eating the meat? No. Humans evolved to eat meat, it gives valuable protein, iron, and it helps keep a person full. Seriously, you think back in the day people could have just abstained from meat and yet worked and worked to exhaustion? Not really.

I think we should be more humane, but at the same time I understand the nessacity of having cheap, fast meat sources. But ill admit it breaks my heart to see what they do to baby animals, however, its a thing I have to ignore.

In a perfect, less developed world (where suburbia doesnt take over the best places to grow crops and raise animals), we'd have lovely, happy, free range meat thats stringy, but as long as they are happy [/sarcasm.]
These animals are born to die, they serve no purpose other than food. A pig, a cow, a chicken, are all food. They dont do any jobs like horses, bulls, oxen, dogs, cats, etc do.


Shit, even the animals that DO serve a purpose in society are eaten in other countries, and who are we to say in our snobbishness that they are wrong for eating something that has been eaten in that area for long beyond living memory?
 
RainbowBrite86

RainbowBrite86

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xKuroiTaimax said:
A happy animal is a tasty animal. I guess if you're going to slaughter an animal for food the least you can do is raise it with love or have them running about semi wild. But there isn't enough room for everyone to have backyard sheep (not in cages)... I love working on a farm. I just wish I could have my own or communes had their local family farms and things. I would probably miss processed food to an extent but I enjoy farm life. I promise I don't chase the chickens too much...

Hey, eat dog and I'll eat you
*GROWL*
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You know what, I think that's true too. There's a dairy farm out here that will let you take a tour of their machinery and how they do things. They actually have this huge rotating...circle...thingy. The cows just walk right up onto it and they get back massages by a machine while they're milked lol. The people who own it say that the happier the cows are, the more productive they are and the better their milk is.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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The fly in the ointment of happy = tasty has to be foie gras. Ohhh, you can taste the suffering. ~drool~

But for indirect food animals (dairy cows, laying hens) I can totally see that happy = tasty. I miss my chickens.

Finally there's Kobe beef ... happy, tasty but so pricy.
"happy, tasty, cheap ... you can have any two." cn
 
RainbowBrite86

RainbowBrite86

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I think they killed more than their share. Just sayin. And I would think that having cows that could actually walk around would make them less fat and more muscle...I would prefer lean meat over fat....
 
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xKuroiTaimax

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As much as I express (and repress) urges to kill small animals, that's kind of immature... I don't want to start believing that banner of yours. I won't even quote the message to duplicate the image and have it fill more of the page...

Foie gras. I have never tried it and vowed years ago to never ever touch it. When you a 100% guarantee of horrible horrible suffering for the animal, rather than even 90% chance or so that one is eating a factory farmed animal or battery hen.

Kobe beef... So good... Thank god for restaurant promotions.

While I was helping out on a farm in Normandy, when we ate away from the chateaux, we could distinctly taste the difference. Our cuddled, brushed and happy little piggies etc running around were alot tastier.
 
dirtsurfr

dirtsurfr

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Theres only 1 kind of meat that really matters to me if it's "happy" and you won't find it packaged in the market!
 
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xKuroiTaimax

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I think he's talking about pussy. I hope he's talking about pussy. In any case, I much prefer pussy without packaging in the way
 
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