If humans were meant to eat meat?!
....a quarter of a million perfectly healthy lambs to be incinerated, or used as bio-diesel......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7035...
Starve them to death, or incinerate them...what a shameful world we live in.
My question being......what part of "the meat industry treats animals well" is this ?
Answers: isn't it a shame they couldn't design a meat industry capable of making use of it
....a quarter of a million perfectly healthy lambs to be incinerated, or used as bio-diesel......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7035...
Starve them to death, or incinerate them...what a shameful world we live in.
My question being......what part of "the meat industry treats animals well" is this ?
This story made me depressed enough, but then I had to go and read some of the responses to your question...yikes!
There really are some ignorant people out there.
There is no excuse for this kind of thing happening. It always boils down to people, as a whole, being too gluttonous and selfish to do what our hearts and science tells us is "right".
What a waste. Oh, the humanity.
Jerry A: Please stop spewing information that is incorrect and misleading. We can get all the amino acids we need by eating plant food and then our bodies use those amino acids to make your "missing" amino acids. Those amino acids are in animal flesh because their bodies make them from the food they eat and OUR bodies make them from the food we eat. We do not need to consume those amino acids in animal flesh because our bodies MAKE them. And our teeth look nothing like true omnivores. We have two pointy, not sharp, but POINTY teeth to bite through tubers and through the rinds and skins of plant food. We cannot take raw animal flesh, with skin on it and straight off the animal and eat it with these teeth. We can barely even bite through raw meat let alone veins and skin. And can you please think for a second about this "hunter" thing? We don't run very fast, we don't have claws or sharp teeth, we are very vulnerable to attack. Can you imagine trying to take down a cow, even if there were several guys trying to do it? You'd be more likely to end up trambled or gored than you be to actually eat it. We stand upright with all our most important organs just below our soft flesh. Do you know how eay it would be for something with horns to gut us? Even trying to catch squirrels or rabbits is going to be tough because we're just slow! Do you people think about what you're saying before you spread this kind of nonsense? It doesn't seem like it. Consider what your reaction is when you see furry little animals. Do you start to salivate and have the urge to pounce on it and sink your teeth into it? When you see a cow does it make you hungry? Think about it and be honest with yourself. And for the last time, there is NO evidence that we must eat meat to be healthy. NONE. NADA. ZILCH! Quite the opposite is true. Studies show that meat is more harmful than it is good (it contributes to cancer and heart disease, our biggest killers, and fruits and veggies DO NOT). Sure, we CAN digest meat, but that does not mean that we should or that we are omnivores; we CAN digest cardboard, too. Nature has shown us time and time again that we should not eat animal products. When will some of you people get over your denial and start listening?
i don't think we are meant to eat meat. people say stuff like "it's just part of the cycle" blah blah blah. meat can be really bad for us and people just don't realize it. it doesn't even taste that great anyway, i've found a lot of good replacements. and all this slaughtering is so wrong, it just makes humans seem selfish and mean.
Obviously the meat industry is set up for sending animals to market. I can only imagine the increased cost if they had to try to plan for every single possible contingency, so obviously they weren't quite ready for 250,000 sheep not being allowed to market. From what I read they aren't starving yet, so there's at least an effort started to try to do something now. I guess the alternative would be to let them die of starvation since the fields can't support the population, then go scoop up the bodies. How humane is that? At the end of the day, there is no great answer to this one. 250,000 domesticated sheep on the Scottish countryside is just about as natural as the acreage planted to come up with 572,539,000 bushels of wheat in May 2007 in the US. Would you balk if the wheat crop caught a blight and all had to be destroyed? Isn't a plant a living thing we must kill to eat? Studies suggest that plants have feelings too. We don't see it so it doesn't exist right? That's why we like lethal injection on death row. It's more "humane." It makes us feel better because we don't see the person suffer since we've just paralyzed them before we stop their heart. Doesn't mean the feelings don't exist.
I have a friend who works for a large distributor of eggs in the U. S. During the Avian Flu scare the company actually put live chickens into a wood chipper because it was the most "humane" way to dispose of them...it was later found that they weren't even infected.
It's shameful and the meat industry's version of treating animals well is laughable.
i love the way meat eaters always say that there are only certain vitamins you get from meat but can never specify. its B12 people, BUT you can actually get that in any animal product (cheese, eggs, etc). and you can get cholesterol from avocados. not to mention there are only 8 amino acids the body can not create & you can still get that but you really have to vary your diet. a meat diet will have them in better proportion than a plant based diet but this is why it is important to vary the veg diet.
all of this is easy enough to do a search on the internet for this information why do we still need to hear that?
That's awful :[
Humans create these problems, and then we act like we are "all merciful" when we put an animal "out of it's misery". And we created the issue in the first place. They didn't ask to be born... (or killed). Since when did humans get the right to play "gOD"?!?
I'm looking at some of these answers... and thinking, "Can they be serious??"
Especially the one (misst or something) that was making a big fuss... because we care about animals...??
Sometimes I'm amazed that people can think that way...
It is true that humans are meant to eat meat, but we take it for granted, our kind kill millions of animals, and breed new ones just to die, this may sound very wrong to most vegans, like myself, but thing should be the way they once were, where man hunted for himself and his familly, because that is the way it is meant to be, and it's true just because your meant to doesn't mean you have to, and there are lots of substitutes for vegitarians. but the substitutes are meant to show that animals are being mistreated, its part of the life cycle for us to kill them, like a tiger kills a Zebra, but vegetarianism is meant as a protest against the inhumane treatement of animals. like how dear are killed because thaere are supposovly too many, but really we are just cuting into they're territory.
Wow. Just wow.
I don't even mean the link. I mean some of the responses to your question. Like Jerry and OMFG "Miss TT" she takes the cake for most ridiculous, childish response! Miss TT, you are a worthless b*tch.
Oh and KLM_78, let's leave out the religious/soul crap, ok? 'Your personal beliefs have nothing to do with anything.
Poor lambs...stupid meat eaters.
Oh yeah, and don't forget idiot Mrs. TT and other answerers who eat so much meat it affects their thinking and makes them idiots. What a shame.
Right we aren't suppose to eat meat. We are custodians of all creatures. In Genesis it says God says: I have given ye dominion of all the fowls and creatures of land and sea, remember ye art to look after thee. Thou shalt not partake of animal or any living creature for I have given ye every herb and fruit bearing seed to be thy meat! (meat eaters tend to ignore that passage.). Those that say animals are treated well never saw the inside of a slaughter house I bet! I've been on some farms where cows were crowded in stalls. They were pumped to produce more milk. I saw pigs dropped alive in to hot boiling water.. Once you hear their scream I bet you'd be a vegetarian if you weren't! I became vegetarian before I wound up on a farm. It was the cost of meat that caused me to be a vegetarian. Once around 1980 I went in to a store and discovered weiners were $2.49 for a pkg of 8 and they were the lowest priced brand. At that time I
said at least prices I'm not gonna eat meat anymore! Someone said Goodluck! they heard me! On the other side of the aisle there was pkgs beans, pkg. lentils, canned beans and some one rushing away with a loaded cart! She was either in a hurry or didn't want to see the meat! Becoming vegetarian was one of the smartest moves I ever made!
I know of one small farm where animals were treated ok and were free to run in roomy pens. They were shutdown because of the stink that came from the farm. Not fair is it?
Humans were ment to be omnivores. Both meat and vegetables. Not completely one or the other!!
look at our eyes...they are in the front of our heads. Our teeth consist of both molars and canine teeth. We we're made to be hunters. Our social groups and intelligence is what make hunters.
It's been proven that predators are smarter then prey. Any animal that hunts it's food has a higher IQ then the animal it typically hunts. If we were ment to eat just vegetables our teeth would all be molars. YET as human beings you can starve yourself if all you eat is meat.
Yes, you can get away with eating all vegetables but for the most part it IS unhealthy. You do NOT get the proper complete amino acids and you do not get proper complex proteins either. Certain vitamins are found only in meat and cannot be found in vegetable matter and the artifcial stuff that vegans take to supplement their diet is not nearly as good as the natural stuff.
Also humans need a certain amount of cholesterol to help the brain function. (Yes too much is bad but a certain level is good to have) and cholesterol is only produced in animal products.
Being a vegan is unnatural. Being a vegetarian is unnatural. Being mainly a meat eater is unnatural.
we're omnivores. we need both.
o BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! yall need to stop with that "LETS SAVE THE ANIMALS" CRAP!!!! You all talk about factories, and bad treatment of animlas and crap, but u dont realize it was not always like this. Us humans, who can actually think and solve problems, HAVE rank over animals. WE NEED TO SURVIVE. we neet protein and we need to satisfy our needs. Animals were put here for OUR survival. MMM I LOVE THE FLESH OF PIGS, COWS, AND CHICKENS. YUM YUM YUMMY!!!!!!
AND THEN, ALL OF YOU GO OUT AND BUY THESE OVER PIRCED "REPLACEMENTS".... HOW NATURAL IS THAT.
MMM, THAT SOUNDS GOOD!!! PIG, COW, AND CHICKEN FLESH. I LOVE MY CHOPS, STEAKS, AND WINGS. LIKE CAMPBELLS, ITS MMM MMM GOOD!!!
AND SO WHAT SHE IS A TOP CONTRIBUTER IN FASHION AND ACCESSORIES, SHE MADE A VALID POINT. YOU MUST HAVE NO ONE TO LOVE, SINCE YOU HAVE SO MUCH LOVE FOR A DAMN CHICKEN. AND .25 MILLION SHEEP WERE NOT SLAUGHTERED FOR NO REASON, THEY WERE SLAUGHTERED FOR HUMAN NEEDS. SO, WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO RAISE ANIMALS ON FARMS?? I GUESS THEY ARE BAD TOO.
INSTEAD OF WASTING YOUR TIME ARGUING ABOUT A STUPID LITTLE CHICKEN, YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SPELL. WHAT THE HECK IS "expensiver"? SORRY, NEVER HEARD OF IT.
OOO, IF I KNEW WHERE YOU LIVE, I WOULD NOT EGG YOU HOUSE, I WOULD "MEAT" YOUR HOUSE... I COULD SEE IT NOW, A HOUSE COVERED WITH PIG, CHICKEN, AND COW FLESH!!! OOO, SOUNDS EXCITING!!!
AND THE ANIMALS ARE NOT WORTHLESS, IF THEY WERE WE WOULD NOT EAT THEM.
who said the meat industry treats animals well?
that's like saying the Death Penalty Industry is treating people well.
but all that story does is make me hungry for mutton.
I love animals, but they are not human. Yes, they have nerve endings, instincts, and memories, but they don't have souls. (flame me for that, I'm okay with it) I respect people who are vegetarians and vegans, thats your choice rock it out. It's not my choice, though, sorry if that makes me cruel or stupid to you. I'm not going to comment on "industries" but in general the large majority of farmers treat their animals very well. They have to, you can't sell a sick animal or get other products from it.