Why I don't eat grocery store or fast-food meats

[nightlola]

When I read this a few years ago I stopped eating chicken. Because, ewwwwwwwwwww. This is an excerpt:

In January 2003 Butler made a public statement describing workers pulling chickens apart, stomping on them, beating them, running over them on purpose with a fork-lift truck, and even blowing them up with dry ice “bombs”. Tyson dismissed the statement as the “outrageous” inventions of a disgruntled worker who had lost his job.

It’s true that Butler has a conviction for burglary, and has had other problems with the law. But eighteen months after Butler made these supposedly “outrageous” claims, a videotape secretly filmed at another KFC- supplying slaughterhouse, in Moorfield, West Virginia, made his claims a lot more credible.

The slaughterhouse had won KFC’s “Supplier of the Year” Award, and was operated by Pilgrim’s Pride, the second largest chicken producer in the nation.

The tape, taken by an undercover investigator working for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, showed slaughterhouse workers behaving in ways quite similar to those described by Butler: slamming live chickens into walls, jumping up and down on them, and drop-kicking them as if they were footballs. The undercover investigator said that, beyond what he had been able to catch on camera, he had witnessed "hundreds" of acts of cruelty.

Workers had ripped off a bird’s head to write graffiti in blood, plucked feathers off live chickens to "make it snow," suffocated a chicken by tying a latex glove over its head, and squeezed birds like water balloons to spray feces over other birds. The investigator thought that the workers did this because they were bored or needed to vent their frustrations at the nature of the work.

Excerpt from "Enter the Chicken Shed" in The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, By Peter Singer, Jim Mason


I'd already stopped eating most meat before that, because I didn't know who to trust when it comes to the "humanely slaughtered" label. I just couldn't justify the cruelty since I have other options.

 

[Debbie]

KFC is gross.

 

[JudasIscariot]

I don't eat meat at all.

 

[CandiCame]

Just Google "Factory Farming".

 

[lovetoread]

KFC is gross.

You hurt my heart.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

If you're hungry enough, you'll eat about anything.

 

[Debbie]

You hurt my heart.

I'm sorry. But I you.

 

[JudasIscariot]

If you're hungry enough, you'll eat about anything.

No, that's a lie

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

No, that's a lie

Spoken like a fat & sassy.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Spoken like a fat & sassy.

Not really, just pointing out your factual bullshit

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Not really, just pointing out your factual bullshit

I would love to watch you slowly and agonizingly die of starvation while eating buttered popcorn.

 

[JudasIscariot]

I would love to watch you slowly and agonizingly die of starvation while eating buttered popcorn.

Good for you, keep on living the dream

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Good for you, keep on living the dream

Keep on pooping the green.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Keep on pooping the green.

Whatever you say shit breath

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Whatever you say shit breath

Whatever you say leaf eater.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Whatever you say leaf eater.

You keep storing the bacon fat grease face

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

You keep storing the bacon fat grease face

Now you're just flirting with me.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Now you're just flirting with me.

Well the best way to lure in a fatty is using bacon

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Well the best way to lure in a fatty is using bacon

You're getting me all hot and squishy.

 

[JudasIscariot]

You're getting me all hot and squishy.

Wipe yourself off with some bread and you'll be fine

 

[nightlola]

Are we quite through?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Are we quite through?

Are you edible?

 

[Fata Morgana]

I'm never mopping egg up with fried bread again after reading this.

 

[bronzeage]

No, that's a lie

No problem.

You are the survivor of a plane crash. Rescue is uncertain, probably weeks at the least. You have plenty of water but no food. You find a box which contains something edible, digestible and nutritious, but you can't bring yourself to eat it.

What is it?

 

[slave_]

Jonathan Safran Foer who wrote "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" wrote a very well researched book on factory farming called "Eating Animals".

http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animal...qid=1383421701&sr=1-1&keywords=eating+animals