Would a vegetarian support this type of campaign?!


Question: http://www.handlewithcare.tv/uk/

The camapaign is targetting unnecessary transport of live animals by asking that the animals are slaughtered before transport.

I'm asking if veggies would support it, because it would reduce animal cruelty but still result in the death of animals

Would you approve on animal welfare grounds, or would you wash your hands of the campaign because the end result is still a dead animal ?

Please note, this is not PETA propaganda or anit-meat-eating campaign as was suggested to me yesterday. Neither PETA nor any vegetarian group are sponsors.

I know a veggie who is sponsoring this campaign and I'm wondering what you think. Has he sold out, or is he being realistic and recognising that slaughter happens.

Is he right to try to improve the last moments of the animals life, or is he putting himself too close to the slaughter planning.


Answers: http://www.handlewithcare.tv/uk/

The camapaign is targetting unnecessary transport of live animals by asking that the animals are slaughtered before transport.

I'm asking if veggies would support it, because it would reduce animal cruelty but still result in the death of animals

Would you approve on animal welfare grounds, or would you wash your hands of the campaign because the end result is still a dead animal ?

Please note, this is not PETA propaganda or anit-meat-eating campaign as was suggested to me yesterday. Neither PETA nor any vegetarian group are sponsors.

I know a veggie who is sponsoring this campaign and I'm wondering what you think. Has he sold out, or is he being realistic and recognising that slaughter happens.

Is he right to try to improve the last moments of the animals life, or is he putting himself too close to the slaughter planning.

washing your hands of the campaign is selling out

your friend is being realistic, and perhaps he thinks that by making small improvements they will snowball into something bigger
you will not stop the slaughter, but you can make a difference
baby steps, continually making improvements and making progress

Surely we are supporting you, and others in one way to another. For instance you start to outcry seeing the reality happens around you.

For modern animal agriculture, the less the consumer knows about what’s happening before the meat hits the plate, the better. If true, is this an ethical situation? Should we be reluctant to let people know what really goes on, because we’re not really proud of it and concerned that it might turn them to vegetarianism?

If the public knew more about the way in which agricultural and animal production infringes on animal welfare, the outcry would be louder. In my opinion, if most urban meat eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to see how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being ‘harvested’ and then being ‘processed’ in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them— without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret.

It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

When nonvegetarians say that ‘human problems come first’ I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

Let your parents to visit the nearby factory farm and slaughterhouse, or at least watch this…MEET YOUR MEAT…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...





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