‘Animal Activists’ are such Hypocrites…
Infact, most of the world’s population are hypocrites. If you eat meat, why do you feel better about it if you think (not know, mind you) that the animal you are eating was treated nicely?
I used to work in a chicken factory. I saw past-date meat being re-labelled as fresh, I saw battery chicken being re-labelled as ‘free range’ and a whole host of other illegal practices. All these things were done by management staff (one in particular, usually) and for all the inspectors and visits made, nobody spotted a thing. Guess why? Because every time there was an inspection, they told the factory first. Sometimes we actually produced no product for an hour or so in the morning because we all had to work for an hour making sure the factory made it past an inspection that was going to happen a couple of hours later. I saw all these things, very regularly, and I didn’t even work directly with the meat, I worked in the dispatch department, I shipped it out, yet on the few occasions I was inside the factory, I saw the law being broken. Did I think about reporting it? Yes. Did I? No, because like all vegetarians who think they can save an animal by not eating it, it wouldn’t have made a difference.
If you really cared what you were eating, you wouldn’t eat it. No matter what label it has, you have NO idea. Even ‘free range’ would seem cruel to some of you if you ever saw it for yourselves rather than imagining a 2-acre field with a couple of chickens in it… I respect Vegetarians (although I believe they have no effect), they believe in something and they stand by it, but often those who stand up for Animal Welfare remind me of Greenpeace…
I once was a member of Greenpeace because I do support a lot of their opinions… I cancelled my support after speaking to another member once and found that he thought we shouldn’t be burning coal, shouldn’t be using oil, shouldn’t be putting up wind farms, shouldn’t be building dams and should definitely not use Nuclear power - yet he could not tell me one single source of power he supported. So, this reminds me of those who fight for Animal Welfare because in most cases they don’t know what to do to fix a problem, they just have a problem with the problem. (Sigh).
Now, what motivated this post?
I saw this article where a TV show in the UK had found that some farmers are paid as little as 3-pence for a chicken, I saw this other article where a supermarket lowered the price of it’s chickens (probably in response to the TV show) down to £1.99. Now, forgive me but, why is that supermarket being attacked? Come on people, like you now give a crap about these animals? I’d wager the farmer is still being paid the same amount, so why do you think that this supermarket lowering prices (from a huge profit, to a slightly smaller one) has any effect on the welfare of these animals?
Because the Press said so? Oh well, they must be right… *rolls eyes*
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Eating Meat, Farming, Press