I love meat
I love meat
I love meat
Like seriously, I really do, me, RattixEmpire, the vegan.
I think meat tastes great, it is convenient and fills you up so easily. I can't describe how much I loved meat. I thought vegetarian was never going to happen, and even when contemplating it, I never committed. If you asked me what I thought of vegan food four months ago, I would say it was just plain weird.
For anyone looking into free range.
Things to look up before deciding wether your meat, dairy and poultry is free range. If you actually know the people, do it yourself or have inspected the places already, this doesn't apply to you.
Call up the free range facilities or go see them, this is an important check list. If they refuse to reply, take it that they don't want to have to answer.
For Poultry
Check what happens to mail chicks,
Check what happens to chickens no longer in their prime egg laying time.
Check wether the chickens still have their beaks.
For Dairy and Meat
Check what happens to cows once they are past their prime milking time.
Check wether these animals have been castrated, branded, dehorned, tail docked or had their teeth ground without anaesthetic.
For Everything
Check how much room the animals have inside and outside on the free range farms and the amount of land that one animal has.
Check that every single animal can comfortably fit in the outside enclosure at once and how much room they will have.
Check that they do have shelter were they can all fit comfortably and have clean bedding (for poultry check for perches.)
Check how many windows there are in the barns
Check how good ventilation is in the barns
Check wether they are fed antibiotics. If they are fed antibiotics find out exactly why and how much.
Make sure that the trips to the slaughter houses (if they do go to the slaughter houses) are humane, don't kill the animals and wether they spend the journey packed tight with hundreds of other animals in their own faces and urine. Many animals do die on the journey to the slaughter house, so be vigilant.
Make sure that the animals aren't conscious when they have their throats slit, because it is often the same slaughter house as the factory farmed animals, they may still be conscious when they are dismembered.
Remember, look up your countries laws about calling things free range and see how much the farms are monitored.
Remember to check the laws on how animals are to be killed (poultry is often missed out, I know it is in Australia)
Dig online to make sure that what you are told is correct and ask around.
If enough people band together and demand truly kind food, then the industry will cater for those demands. Slavery was abolished, women have been given voting rights, African Americans have been given human rights, if enough people band together, things do change. If people get noisy enough, democratic governments will, slowly and unhappily make changes. This isn't really related but there was a party in the Australian Government called the Australian Democrats, their main aim was to
"keep the bastards honest."
This does apply to this topic in relation to the farms and slaughter houses, we need to keep them honest. My signature also has relevance.
"We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task, the rest is the madness of art." Henry James
This sums up my thoughts entirely. Here are some other great quotes I found.
"Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?' ~Plutarch" He was a Greek historian and was born A.D 45 even the ancients thought meat eating was strange.
"A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: 'Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything.' ~Slaughterhouse 1997"
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein"
"Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? ~Anonymous"
That is it from me and I'm not going to even look at this topic anymore so... Please, if your going for the organic and free range, make sure it is what they say it is. If you aren't going to change, I hope I have made you question your food at the very least. See ya.
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We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, out doubt is our passion and our passion is our task, the rest is the madness of art. Henry james