Vegitarian/Vegan
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Thread Topic: Vegitarian/Vegan
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I am a vegetarian, and I'm going to try being a Vegan because of the cruel facts that have been educated to me. I'm not telling you to read this, I'm not telling you once you read this that you must become a vegan. Just please, educate yourself about what you are really eating.
TO start out with, animals are being raised in cruel and unnatural ways. They are being 'buttered up' fattened, being held in small cages then being sent to the slaughter house to die. Chickens are developing bone deformities and can barely stand on their own. They just sit there and wait to die.
Chickens and other birds are treated horribly. Because of the small crowded areas they are forced into, they de-beak them so they don't peck each other. Some die from this because they can't eat, and it causes serious pain. The amount of waste they live in causes them painful burns from ammonia to their eyes, skin, and lungs. Chicken and hens who are too weak to carry on at a young age are thrown into the trash and left to die.
Dairy cows are impregnated, by a machine, just after they give birth and the milk is being sucked from them by more machines. If a dairy cow has more than the necessary udders, than they chop it off, no pain killers, no cauterizing, just cut it right off. Their babies are taken from them and most of the time if they are male they will send them to the slaughter house immediately or keep them for about 15 weeks then sell them for 'special veal'.
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Im not a vegetarian but i think that animals shouldn't be kept in inhumane conditions. I always buy cage free eggs, especially from the Amish since we live in PA and I see lots of roam free chickens :D . As for killing them i think it should be done as quickly and painlessly as possible! We're omnivores which means we can eat meat (not in excess), plus meat taste good.(I know might seem like a flimsy reason but my mouth is watering dammit!)
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Without humans cows aren't likely to survive on their own.
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same with chickens (not saying thats a valid reason for torturing them but its true, a chicken cant defend itself in the wild like other animals can)
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But that's only because they've been grown and raised under our reign. But what would be better, feeding cows things that make them have e.coli and have them be free and actually start to have a life of their own.
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Here in PA the cows get to roam around in the field before being taken back to the barn (security reasons)
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Well that is good, but make sure it's not only just a few short minutes before they make hem go back inside. That's what they market as "free range", I'm not saying that over there you don't, but there might be a possibility that they do this.
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Here the cows are out aaaaaalll day, in the mean time their barns are cleaned out and other maintenance to keep them safe and healthy, same thing with chickens. Pennsylvania where I live is a very farmy place.
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That is the way they should be raised, not in cages never seeing the light. Go Pennsylvania!
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It's the same here in Maine. We have a lot of farmers and the animals seem to be doing nicely. In the spring, summer and autumn seasons they go out in the sun, go about the fields and seem happy. In the winter they are protected from the cold and well taken care of. I think most people up here value the lives of the animals and wouldn't stand for cruelty.
Also, I agree completely about veal. I'll never eat it, considering the cruel, inhumane ways the animal is treated. :I
So basically I'm not against eating meat; it's nature, part of the food chain. But I am not for cruelty or hurting the animals. That's just sick. -
Not every meat has been tortured.
Also whining about how awful nonvegetarians are for eating meat isn't helping your cause. That's like a vegan getting pissed at you for not being vegan. Because in some way you're still supporting animal byproducts. -
Teresa, I'm not whining. I'm trying to educate people. My friends are completely ignorant on these facts and refuse to even listen to me, so I thought I would put down accessible information for anyone who is willing to read.
Ana, that is how I think of this. I'm not against it, it just makes me sick thinking of what they do to those poor animals. -
I do not agree with vegetarians. You are risking your health to keep a cow alive? Seriously, Can you give me one goal or targer in a cow's life? It only eats and poops and dies after 4 years. It's only goal is to grow big and healthy so we can eat it. There are alot of things in meats that your body needs, which you can not find anywhere else but in the meats. I hate it when people toture animals, But the farmers who grow those animals never do that. They kill them with knowledge. They kill the animals with the best ways they can so they won't "torture" them.
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Most of these animal tortures as you call them are very extreme.
We are made omnivorous. Not herbivorous. And meat is healthy. -
SQ, now-a-days they have protein supplements as well as all the necessary things in meat, in vitamins. Looking past all of humanities knowledge and civilization, deep down we are just animals with laws to keep us from turning back. We were once like those cows, and we weren't raised just to die for someone else just to eat. We never had a goal in life just to get fat and die to be eaten, just like how they aren't.
Geek, brand names use these methods. Tyson is a big offender of this. We are omnivores, but we were mainly orientated towards a plant based diet. Our jaws move side to side like cows, better for chewing plants, as well as our appendix which it's main function to do is break down sugars found in plants.
*Anyone who wants to get a basis of what I'm talking about and see my side of this watch Food Inc. You can find it on Netflix and on DVD's. Not saying you have to watch it, I'm just giving the option
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