8/21/2003: Huge pig sacrificed

[quzah]

Originally posted by evansk7
On the other hand, I don't consider - for example - free range eggs to be "mistreatment".. the little hens run round in the sunshine, with their beaks and claws still attached. They lay their little eggs on the ground, and someone comes and picks them up.

Ignorance is bliss. Prepare to be enlightened...

Here.

Loose federal guidelines do exist. If chicken producers claim their birds are "free-range," they must be able to document that the chickens do not consume antibiotics or growth enhancers and that the chickens have access to an "outdoor yard". An outdoor yard may be as small as an opening in the sidewall of a standard chicken house. But chickens naturally flock and are territorial. If a side wall is created in a standard chicken house, a few may walk out and take a look. Most will stay in their own territory inside the house.

Here's more info.
And well, if you're really bored...

Like I said, I don't care what you eat. I'd try and put the wool back over your eyes, but I don't use wool either so you're out of luck with me around.

Originally posted by evansk7
I won't accept that they be tortured to death for the purposes of feeding me, and I won't accept that they be shoved in little cages and shipped the length and breadth of the country (which is why I don't eat veal)

Sadly, there are all kinds of cruel shit for just about any kind of animal "product" you can think of. I'll stop searching now, you can do that if you want to further depress yourself.

If you really care, you'll do something about it. Otherwise you'll do whatever you like to feel better about yourself. Like I've said in the past, people can justify anything.

I justify being an asshole because, well I am one.

Quzah.