Vegans are acceptable targets to mock these days but i've a challenge for all the meat eaters here: Watch and tell me it doesn't affect you.
[b][i][c=800000]"Most of us consider ourselves animal lovers"[/c][/i][/b] It's called Dominion and if you can't invest the 2 hours then just watch the first section on pigs. It's one thing to hear about the bad, mean things that humans do to poor livestock but it's quite another to witness the terror and the pain of the animals as they're suffering slow, horrific deaths. Tell me what you feel watching it. Does it compel you to make different choices? Does it at least make you [i]want[/i] to make different choices?
I don't have moral or physical compunctions about eating meat or others eating meat. My issue is with the treatment of sentient, feeling creatures as inanimate objects. The level of physical cruelty is astonishing and the waste of life is overwhelming. It's not good for the environment, for mankind or for the animals. I'm not saying don't enjoy bbq; but there are ways to reduce and ethically source the foods we eat. There's no reason to live as a parasite just because we can.
I don't know how i feel about the idea that any meat can be obtained totally ethically but i also don't think humans are ever going to stop eating animals so i agree that the biggest and most upsetting problem here is the violence with which these animals are bred, raised and slaughtered.
