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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

captain queeg

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8. I worked in a slaughterhouse for years

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2019, 02:05 PM

Jun 2019

I’d agree with your assessment. It’s pretty rough work that most people would avoid at all costs. That being said commercial slaughter is fairly humane. What really sickens me is the way many animals are raised. I’m thinking specifically of chickens because I’ve seen that. Certainly cattle’s lives are usually better than that, at least they can move around.

I guess I’d rather be shot in the head than live a long drawn out painful and sick death like many humans and animals. Speaking for myself.

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If everyone had to slaughter critters for their meat, there would be a lot more vegetarians. [View all] Tobin S. Jun 2019 OP

really you could say the same of growing plants Kali Jun 2019 #1

If people had to make that choice, I'd think most of them would go with a garden. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #6

I doubt it. I think most people would resort to stealing whatever they could Kali Jun 2019 #11

You're assuming uncivilized conditions. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #13

actually, no I am not Kali Jun 2019 #14

My grandfather raised beef cattle. I've seen it all and I hate it. I'd raise dairy cows, but never hlthe2b Jun 2019 #2

Native Americans HONORED their kills..... ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #3

That's probably true radical noodle Jun 2019 #4

I'm not vegetarian or vegan moose65 Jun 2019 #5

True. So what? matt819 Jun 2019 #7

The point is that I think most people would be naturally inclined to eating a vegetarian diet. Tobin S. Jun 2019 #9

that is debateble but I see this is in a "protected" forum Kali Jun 2019 #10

Any sociologists or anthropologists here? matt819 Jun 2019 #12

I worked in a slaughterhouse for years captain queeg Jun 2019 #8

Yet in a way, raising and slaughtering your own is so much more humane. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #15

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #16

Once I acknowledged the animal cruelty involved, I could no longer eat meat... MLAA Jun 2019 #17

Isn't human physiology geared towards consuming plants? I thought our teeth were Karadeniz Jun 2019 #18

I was raised in a hunting family Codeine Jun 2019 #19