Meet Your Meat.. Caution

[wakefib]

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp

cried like a little girl with a scrapped knee watching this one.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=malish

 

[mkazzbmf]

At a Hebrew University huh........No comment.


Kaz

 

[ZKaudio]

I have done extensive research into a lot of the videos on peta's site... most of em are exceptions, and you can rest assured that once these vids surface, the operation is pretty much tamed... on the other hand, they are a large reason why I give up meat for a portion of the year. The video of the machine that kills and separates the cows is reason enough for any decent human to only buy meat from reputable ranches. Preferably organic feed, free range meat. Nieman ranch is one of the better places to get red meat, I buy my steaks almost exclusively from them.

 

[wakefib]

i can't believe some of the stuff on peta. i did not realize that farm animals were treated so bad. i am glad i watched it and will make sure i watch where i buy my meat from. it doesn't have to be like that.

 

[ZKaudio]

even buying at trader joes is a huge step, their buyers check up on nearly every product in the store before carrying it. Most of their meat comes from very good ranches and largely organic feed. Just nice to know you aren't eating forcedly cannibalized cows n pigs n such.

 

[heatherrae]

I grew up on a farm. The cows were killed pretty humanely, but the hogs had their throats slit. Pigs are VERY SMART and they know that you are trying to kill them and scream like children. It turned me off from meat for a long time.

 

[wakefib]

im not turned of from meat. just how they were treated. that is what bothers me the most. then it is the fact that they are feed so much hormones

 

[Y_lifter]

As a Butcher years ago, I've been to slaughter houses and spoken with lots of USDA inspectors.
99.9% of the time, the stress the cow feels is usually from the cattle
fences and enclosed area they herd them into prior to the kill. Not the kill

They walk into a closed fenced area, are clamped tight by a fence,
a 8" nail like spike is pnumatically driven into their skull/brain and
they drop. Dead. No flailing or screaming etc..

There are exceptions and usually is due to the person manning the nail gun missing the mark on the head. Bulls have been knocked out by the pin,
dropped into the Kill floor below thinking that they were dead, woke up when they hit and tore the place apart..