Food inc "the kill floor" whats your thoughts?!

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I thought "Food, Inc." was a very well-done documentary.

I have had serious issues with the mass production of animal food items for years. While I find nothing inherently wrong with eating meat, I do feel that those animals destined for food deserve a healthy and contented lifestyle that provides all of their physical and psychological needs up until whatever "end" they are destined for. That also means a humane and pain and fear-free death. The way we produce animals for food now is utterly disgusting, and a testament to the cruelty of humans (and their willingness to look the other way).

This is not even to mention the human casualties and cruelty towards human life that takes place in this "big business" style of meat production (exploitation of workers, the physical and psychological dangers of the "kill floor", overworked and underpaid, etc. etc. etc.).

The meat industry is a prime example of Capitalism and big business run amuck... left without proper oversight, they have gotten to the point of torturing their "product" (which is a living creature, despite its intended end) and their workers... and are rewarded for it.

Vegan since age 10. Have no problem with responsible and humane hunting/animal farming methods.

Meh.

I never saw the movie, but I read the book it was (supposedly loosely) based upon.

I find it very difficult to believe that anyone truly does NOT know that to obtain meat, animals must be killed. Did you seriously think that hamburgers grew in gardens before you saw that movie?

I know how and where my food is made, and I agree that everyone should.

But if you feel bad about how meat is obtained, then no one is forcing you to eat it.

Its disgusting.

Meat eaters dont care how animals are treated and killed in the meat industry.

Edit: A meat diet kills more animals than any other diet thats why going vegetarian or vegan is a good thing.

http://www.animalvisuals.org/data/1mc/

http://www.adaptt.org/killcounter.html

Edit: Diggum Shobum - Lol, Daisy sure is stupid.

very interesting documentary, i am vegan because i hate the fact of eating something with feelings and that died in pain.
but i suggest you watch Earthlings, its another great documentary that i think everyone should watch!

I am a vegetarian I think animals should be treated humanly. I agree with your friend.

The way livestock is treat in most places is completely inhumane.

I absolutely agree with Emily.

Everyone should know, and take into serious consideration, where their food comes from and what happens to it before it reaches their plate. This goes for any type of food, not just animal products. I'm just sick of people who eat meat while claiming they feel bad for the animals that get killed for food. If they feel so bad they should stop whining and just stop eating the meat, or at least make an effort to buy humanely raised meat from local producers. There is an alarming number of people in the world who like to keep meat and animals as two separate things. So many people are just lazy and don't want to think about it... I'd love to see how much bacon they'd be eating if they had to catch, kill, skin, decapitate, disembowel, butcher and cook the pig all on their own.

Anyway, if you are upset about this, I would advise you to just go vegan, or at least stop eating meat. You don't need it. It's obviously your choice but if you feel so bad why would want to continue eating meat anyway? :)

Lol.. I find it almost "cute" when people, especially kids or adults leading very sheltered lives are "shocked" when they find out how their food gets to the table. Slaughterhouses are not love motels where animals are read bedtime stories at night. They are there so animals can be killed as efficiently as possible (efficient for humans not necessarily for the animals). You cannot kill without blood pouring out. That's the nature of the business. The only reason why it's shocking to you is that you have lived a life full of comforts and devoid of realities that as soon as you see one, you are offended. For those of us who have to put food on the table, food that we ourselves produce, actually raise or plant ourselves, such realities are not hidden and therefore not shocking. It's a fact of life as much as any "dirty (but necessary) job" that Mike Rowe has ever been involved with.
Fact is there are many "industries" whose realities are hidden from most of the people but are necessary in order for the society to continue to exist. For those who are aware of them, they are not shocking nor offensive. To the ignorant ones they often are.

"4 seconds later they came out dead" does not sound like a lot of suffering was involved..
"Also horses and shot in the head sometimes they do not die and are continuously shot..: - would you prefer that they left to bleed to death?.. By the way, horse slaughterhouses are no longer allowed in the US suggesting that either that was shot outside the US (but implied as it was in order to deliberately mislead the viewer and obviously in your case successfully so)
"kfc throws the chickens in boiling water alive.." FYI - KFC does not process any live chickens. It does not even own a farm nor does it operate a slaughterhouse.
"s this how you want your food or animals to me treated??".. NO and most farmers do not treat their animals horribly. On the contrary, most responsible farmers treat their animals very well. Stressed animals do not lay eggs or produce milk. Thin, sickly animals will not be bought or won't fetch a good price. Think about it, thin animals weigh less and far animals are sold by weight. Less weight means less money so farmers need to have well fed animals if they want to make money. I don't know abut you none of them went into business in order to lose money don't you think?

The video you saw was specifically designed to elicit the very reaction you are showing. That is it's intention therefore a lot of other truths about it were "edited out". the video shows the sentiments of the producers not necessarily what is true. If I show you a 90 minute video of New Yorkers mugging and robbing people in the streets, will you now think that ALL New Yorkers are muggers and thieves? And that anyone who isn't shocked you automatically call heartless and perhaps "criminal". as well? If I show you a 90 minute video of thin anorexic vegetarians, will you assume then that all vegetarians are sickly and anorexic? Even you would think that is ridiculous won't you? so why make the distinction?

i saw it and i was mortified. that movie justified me becoming a vegetarian even more...and that pig part was just awful. thats the main part i remember about the docuementary. the pigs screaming...ew! and the chickens that have their beaks and feet chopped up and then they're hung upside down still alive! and then the small little baby chickens that are literally smacked on this machine, and they're skulls crack or something...soooo horrible. the conditions they put them in are horrible.
i'm a vegetarian though i totally respect people that DO eat meat, because the industry will never stop, and its clear that to pack and ship off meat to stores, the animal is killed...but there are more "humane" ways to kill the animals instead of purposely kicking them or electrocuting them and chopping their heads off while they're still alive and just putting them in piles and selling them when they're diseased and all sick and nasty...now THATS when i don't understand why people would eat that...that doesn't really sound appetizing.

So you think people don't know where meat comes from? People don't know animals die for meat? People think killing animals is pretty? EVERYONE knows how they get their meat and most people are fine with it including me. I hunt, kill, butcher, and eat animals. I am fine with it.

If its alright for wolves to eat their prey while still alive, its alright for me to eat animals that are already dead.

Yes that's right Eric, you know so much! You blocked me because my answers made you look ignorant.

Why am I heartless? You said you are not vegetarian! The only difference between you and me is I kill my own meat, you have someone else do it for you.

Its grotesque.

Contrary to what Deer Hunter (Troll) says, people don't realize how bad it is. Paul of the Beatles said that if slaughterhouses had glass wall everyone would be a vegetarian. Well, I guess everyone except Deer Hunter who loves to roll around in animal blood.

Don't listen to Daisy either (troll). She is quick to show that even typical vegans can't avoid killing some animals. However, she completely fails to mention that large animals eat tons of plant food, all of which has to be grown and plowed and harvested just like the plant foods vegans eat. So, actually, those that inhumanely kill larger animals are actually killing those larger animals, plus the ones in the fields.

She also fails to realize, or atleast seems to, that vegans do the most for the animals, their own health, and the environment. Doing the best you can is much better than whatever she does, or doesn't do.

Vegan

I've never watched Food Inc.

"No hateful remarks"! Give me a break. You put this unsourced, vegan propaganda out here as if it were the truth and say "no hateful remarks!" OK, I won't make a hateful remark. I'll just say ANIMALS DIE IN THE FIELDS FOR YOUR VEGAN DIET. Shocked? It's the truth. Are you a speciest? Are the lives of the bunny rabbits, mice, ground nesting birds, fawns that die when big farming equipment runs over them (or their nest) to produce your diet less important than the lives of those hogs or chickens?

From the link: "Animals of the field are killed by several factors, including:

1. Tractors and farm implements run over them.
2. Plows and cultivators destroy underground burrows and kill animals.
3. Removal of the crops (harvest) removes ground cover allowing animals on the surface to be killed by predators.
4. Application of pesticides.

So, every time the tractor goes through the field to plow, disc, cultivate, apply fertilizer and/or pesticide, harvest, etc., animals are killed. And, intensive agriculture such as corn and soybeans (products central to a vegan diet) kills far more animals of the field than would extensive agriculture like forage production, particularly if the forage was harvested by ruminant animals instead of machines. So perhaps fewer animals would be killed by producing beef, lamb, and dairy products for humans to eat instead of the vegan diet envisioned by Regan."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/9…