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Video: chicks suffering farming cruelty







spence

spence

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Oct 15, 2014
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My god that is ****ing horrific. Why is this still happening in the 21st century.
 




Goldstone1976

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gregbrighton said:
It's solely for profit :mad::mad:
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another way of saying the same thing is: "it's because people want cheap food".

If you want food that is raised/grown in the way that most people idealistically and naively believe it is being raised/grown; if you want food produced like it was in your grandparents' generation, either produce it yourself (Dig for Victory style) or buy free range organic produce at double the price.

Factory farming is horrific. I believe hugely signifixant damage to human health has been and continues to be done by routine use of antibiotics, pesticides and growth hormone injections.

However, just removing the cheap products from the supermarket shelves isn't the answer. It's inevitable that. consumers will apply downward pressure on prices; but some (greater) controls are required, imo.
 






Triggaaar

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Goldstone1976 said:
another way of saying the same thing is: "it's because people want cheap food".

If you want food that is raised/grown in the way that most people idealistically and naively believe it is being raised/grown; if you want food produced like it was in your grandparents' generation, either produce it yourself (Dig for Victory style) or buy free range organic produce at double the price.

Factory farming is horrific. I believe hugely signifixant damage to human health has been and continues to be done by routine use of antibiotics, pesticides and growth hormone injections.

However, just removing the cheap products from the supermarket shelves isn't the answer. It's inevitable that. consumers will apply downward pressure on prices; but some (greater) controls are required, imo.
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IMO it should be down to government / EU laws. Consumers can't see the effect of their choices at the supermarket, and because factory farmed chickens are allowed, free range chickens are more expensive than they could be. Consumers can't (realistically) choose when they're eating out either. Animals should be treated better and that should be down to legislation.
 


Nibble

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One day we are going to look back on how we produce food and realise how daft it is to use POISONS to grow our FOOD. Or maybe we won't.
 


Nibble

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pastafarian said:
all i could think about was Madras,Chasseur and Southern Fried
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Thousands of living creatures die in this fashion every hour of every day. This type of farming is ruining the planet. If you can't contribute anything positive to a thread about death please just keep it to yourself. Show a bit of class, please.
 






BadFish

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Nibble said:
One day we are going to look back on how we produce food and realise how daft it is to use POISONS to grow our FOOD. Or maybe we won't.
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We will wipe ourselves and our planet out before we get to this level of understanding.
 


Nibble

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This type of food production will be our downfall. Be it disease that spreads through livestock due to the conditions they are reared in (we've skirted pretty close to this a few times) or the fact that using land in this fashion, huge livestock plantations, vast areas of countryside used for one-crop production, is really very bad for the planet. It wipes out bio-diversity across huge plains of land, reduces soil to dust and it produces poor quality foodstuffs.
 




Goldstone1976

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Nibble said:
This type of food production will be our downfall. Be it disease that spreads through livestock due to the conditions they are reared in (we've skirted pretty close to this a few times) or the fact that using land in this fashion, huge livestock plantations, vast areas of countryside used for one-crop production, is really very bad for the planet. It wipes out bio-diversity across huge plains of land, reduces soil to dust and it produces poor quality foodstuffs.
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There's not a lot that you and I agree on, I think. But we do on this topic! :thumbsup:
 


gregbrighton

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i'm just shocked by how coldly automated the process is. The bit where the chicks are hooked up by their heads on the machine so their beaks are removed by laser was just too upsetting. :(
 








Igzilla

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Sep 27, 2012
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I don't want to watch this video. I saw one filmed in France where day old male chicks were on a conveyor belt going to be fed alive into a grinder. A group broke in to stop it and were arrested. I've been veggie for 20 years, mainly because I don't like meat (taste, smell and texture turns my stomach). I cannot comprehend how any feeling, thinking human being could either:
a) conceive of such a process or
b) carry it out.
 


symyjym

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The mass production process doesn't look good but I don’t think there is a nice way for an animal to be killed. Didn’t watch the whole video but I would imagine that they die before any pain can register if being quickly minced. I rarely eat meat these days.
 


gregbrighton

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Watch the video and you will see the pan and cruelty.

I was led to this video by Louis Theroux who was talking about Cecil the Lion in the Independent.

Humans cam be utter *******s when it comes to animals, even though humans are an animal. :moo:
 


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