How can people allow this?

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How can people allow this?

 

Warning please do not play this video if you are faint at heart and do not wish to see something vile. It is at the extreme end of cruel imo, the title is puting it nicely.

Yes this is a peta video, well the peta video is 40 minutes to long, this is just a clip of it from youtube. Please ignore who it is from and just think about it. I'm not here to advocate you turn vegetarian like peta does, but I do ask that you look where your meat comes from. With crops I cannot just say organic is the way, but with animals I must say factory farming should be illegal (please note these are just extreme acts of animal abuse, it isn't this bad in all factory farms but even so most are appalling imo). We do not need to eat meat everyday to survive so i can't rationalize the need to factory farm. Especially not when it can produce results like these. 

Also there is an award winning animation on Factory Farming called 'the meatrix', there are 3 episodes, I really recommend you watch them, they are not so much a pull at your heart strings as this clip is, it should be easy to find on YouTube or you can watch It at their site.

http://www.themeatrix.com/

 

Quite a lot of this factory farming meat goes to the fast food industry, but is not exclusive to it. So all I want to know is can you rationalize this?

 

 

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.


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Thomathy wrote:Tapey, Will,

Thomathy wrote:

Tapey, Will, I know.  I know.  I can see the waste and the need for change.  The problems are apparent.  I'm sure you both know that I happen to agree with you, largely.  The problem is that there is a problem.  I'd very much like for it to be solved and much like Will, I do what I can to minimize my impact, but that is not helping.  I mean, sure, if everyone lived like Will or myself or even one-uped us, it'd be better.  If we could legislate our current lifestyle out of existence, we'd probably be better off.  I'd really like that.

I do think this isn't something you can just legislate away, it has to come from consciousness rising..... It goes to far into what we do for us just to ban it. If change comes from a ban it causes all sorts of problems, for all sorts of related industries as well as agribusiness, has to come from people first.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.


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Well, even if it did start

Well, even if it did start with people, legislation would have to follow.  I don't really want to belabour the point, anyhow; we agree there needs to be a substantive change that must affect all aspects our our lifestyle.  Want grassroots or political?  Well, who can tell the difference anymore?

BigUniverse wrote,

"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."