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PvK said:
Oh... right... never trust vegetarians... or people who care about the treatment of animals.
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Note I didn't say that vegetarians are untrustworthy, I said the
website was obviously biased. Big distinction.
I'd also like to point out that I absolutely resent the implication that I don't care about the well-being of animals. I have never once in my life mistreated an animal, no animal. We raise cattle here and they have never been subjected to any inhumane practices. Never. Being a vegetarian doesn't make you superior to us savages who eat meat. And just because people eat meat it doesn't mean they don't care about how animals are treated. It's really too bad typing doesn't allow for emphasis to be applied, or facial expression to be expressed. I think the look on my face and tone of my "voice" would say a lot...
As for what some PETA loving animal hugger from "Compassion over Killing" says, I really don't give a [censored]. In any industry there are bad apples. It doesn't make the entire industry cruel and unjust. And given the way "animal rights activists" act, I wouldn't doubt they did that to the chickens themselves.
Note the word "trimming" when referring to beaks, not burning as has been said. Think of it this way; we castrate animals. That could be said to be akin to "trimming". Yet it is painless and harmless. I can guarantee they aren't yanking the entire beak out of the chicken. It would stress the animal which would cause it to lose weight and not perform as well as it would otherwise.
I would also like to know the definition of "starve". I'd bet it means feeding them a certain diet, not refusing to feed them for days on end. Be reasonable.
As is probably evident, I get a little worked up about stuff like this. Let me tell you something:
Vegetarians are primarily people who have lived in cities all their life, and not been in touch with the real world, outside of cities.
Vegetarians have been raised watching Walt Disney movies, and think that all animals are harmless and nearly the equal to people. They're not, never will be.
Vegetarians would not stand a chance at survival if they were deprived of their "civilized" comforts. If you couldn't go to the grocery store and buy all your organic, non-meat products and you actually had to grow and kill what you eat rather than go buy it, you would eat meat. If you didn't, you'd die. You'd also see that animals are just that; animals. They are not on the same level as a person. That doesn't excuse mistreatment, don't for a minute think that I believe it does. However, death is part of life (bit of an oxymoron there, but hey...). Killing and eating animals does not make people 'evil'. They've lived their life, and don't know there's any other way to live. However they live, as long as they don't live in pain, that's what they're used to. They think it's natural. It is not cruel.