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Slow Food
If you thought the film about industrial farming was a downer, imagine the day to day life of those pigs. Obviously, farmed pigs are suffering - both mentally and physically. If a dog was treated like a pig in a factory farm it would be a felony. Perhaps your slow food hosts thought that a group of people who cared about food might also care to know what the vast majority of farm animals endure on their way to the plate. If you can't even bear to watch it then you maybe you shouldn't eat it.— September 23, 2011 4:45 p.m.
Mister A's
Naomi: I believe that most people who eat meat want the animals they consume to have been raised and killed humanely. Perhaps this is the case in that small village in France, but this is not the case with large-scale factory farming in the United States. Those who make the choice to eat meat should look at the reality, not an idealized vision they hold in their heads. To image that all animals that make it to the plate have had a good life and painless death is delusional. Short of visiting a factory farm, an animal auction house, a slaughter house, and meat-packing plant, at least check out: http://www.hfa.org/about/index.html. There's nothing wrong with caring about the suffering of others, whether they are people or animals. > >— January 29, 2009 4:20 p.m.