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- Dec 29, 2013
The average person consumes meat and dairy that is produced in especially disgusting and cruel ways. Not just on principle, but certain practices have direct and long term effect on human health - hormones, antibiotics, and disease are significant causes of impact on the average person.
Some say something edgy like "the torment makes it taste better". Torturing the animals doesn't make the meat better, but it sure is indicative of brutal and disgusting farming practices, as mentioned.
You may refuse to eat the bugs, but you already eating the meat, you already cracking the eggs, and you are already pouring the milk.
Eggs? Yeah. Until relatively recently, it was impossible to obtain eggs that were not grown in cruel, dirty factory farm environments. Horrific and cruel practices, such as beak trimming (prying or chopping the beak off of a chicken to keep it from pecking itself to death), battery cages (where a chicken spends it's whole life in a foot by foot cage), and chick shredders (live, concious male chicks are useless and basically tossed straight into a meat grinder) dominated the industry in an effort to shave pennies of margin off of eggs. Of course, not every farm is this cruel; however, many large factory farms are, and if you live in America and eat eggs, you've certainly eaten products from some of the ones that use these cruel practices. And, I said relatively recently - if you're still eating the $5 a carton eggs, you're still consuming eggs laid in these conditions.
If you can afford it, not only should you be eating less meat, but also spending much more on it. Anyways, the next time you're faced with a menu choice at a restaurant, quickly run through your head if you can identify where that meat came from. If you can't, consider the vegetarian option (even the bean burrito at taco bell), and figure it out when you go home.
Some say something edgy like "the torment makes it taste better". Torturing the animals doesn't make the meat better, but it sure is indicative of brutal and disgusting farming practices, as mentioned.
You may refuse to eat the bugs, but you already eating the meat, you already cracking the eggs, and you are already pouring the milk.
Eggs? Yeah. Until relatively recently, it was impossible to obtain eggs that were not grown in cruel, dirty factory farm environments. Horrific and cruel practices, such as beak trimming (prying or chopping the beak off of a chicken to keep it from pecking itself to death), battery cages (where a chicken spends it's whole life in a foot by foot cage), and chick shredders (live, concious male chicks are useless and basically tossed straight into a meat grinder) dominated the industry in an effort to shave pennies of margin off of eggs. Of course, not every farm is this cruel; however, many large factory farms are, and if you live in America and eat eggs, you've certainly eaten products from some of the ones that use these cruel practices. And, I said relatively recently - if you're still eating the $5 a carton eggs, you're still consuming eggs laid in these conditions.
If you can afford it, not only should you be eating less meat, but also spending much more on it. Anyways, the next time you're faced with a menu choice at a restaurant, quickly run through your head if you can identify where that meat came from. If you can't, consider the vegetarian option (even the bean burrito at taco bell), and figure it out when you go home.
