macdonalds are no crueller to chickens than what the State allows them to be... I won't watch the video- I've just eaten my dinner...
i do not eat meat... yet, having just feasted on jelly sweets, containing pork gelatine, you can see that I am not a "pure/pious" veggie...
why do I not eat meat? because it tastes like turds, like actual excrement, so I don't bother with it.
Are there any ethical issues related to killing chickens? of course there is. If you are going to kill animals for food then ideally, you should kill them yourself, prepare them yourself, and eat them yourself. If you are too squeamish to do that, then you should not eat meat.
Beyond that, what can be ethical about eating meat? Lets' keep them in sunny fields, and corn fed by fair maidens, before we cut off their heads and boil them?
Am I a fan of PETA? no... I know little of them, but rate them as extremists and as I think extremism is extremism no matter how noble the cause appears I instinctively don't like them...
What if the Gov't required that we eat Tofu burgers? There would be mass riots, and after that, dogs and cats would begin to disappear off the streets, and succulent smells would waft over the wall from next doors illegal meat barbeque...
Why can't we all be vegans? I would riot and I would encourage others to do the same... I suspect that the majority of vegans have undiagnosed eating disorders, and science has also been thinking the same thing recently (am too lazy to look for evidence)
milk, icecream, chocolate, butter, eggs, all good, useful foods.
How anyone can be that anal about food is, I feel, obscene... I disagree with veganism. Chickens give eggs, and cows give milk, with or without the intervention of humans, and without the animals destruction. Milk is the best source of calcium available to humans, and eggs are full of amino acids which the body and brain needs for healthy development... I know ppl here don't agree with this, and will probably quote stats to prove otherwise, but I will ignore them... (lol)
if you are wealthy, then veganism is a piece of cake, albeit pretty tasteless cake... most of the poor white trash survive on cheap meat of dubious origins and if you take it away they will not eat lentils unless someone shows them a picture of what lentils actually look like...
for me, the debate is different... I feel the debate is really about how affluent, relatively well educated people wish to enforce their version of morality on others without providing these others with the money or tools they need to adopt the new moralities... I also think that society as a whole does not place much value on food, and are not prepared to pay what it really costs, and while they are part of the food chain they have become so far removed from the bloody processes involved that they no longer respect the lives they consume without consideration...
