Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser to gain more insight into massive livestock operations and the push for profit at the unfortunate cost to the workers, consumers, and animals themselves. At least I am confident that I have not eaten any of the contaminated meat, as I do not buy Hallmark/Westland meat.
Don't forget celery, cabbage, carrots, apples, etc. Plants are living things too. The idea is respect. Respect the food you eat and the ability for us as humans to enjoy the fruit of the earth. Sure, I would love to have farm-raised animals and plants to cultivate and eat, but that just isn't realistic right now. So I try to minimize my support of inhumane and disrespectful companies and processes - but that is just me. I don't do it to feel superior to other people who don't think like me, I do it for my (and the animal's) health and well-being.CommieChipmunk wrote:
I figure as long as there's shit like that going on, no matter how isolated and how far between the incidents are, there's no way in hell I'll give cattle farmers/slaughters a cent of my money, because honestly, I don't care how low something is on the food chain. An organism is an organism and should be treated as such. The point at which we start treating living beings: cows, pigs, chickens, dolphins (etc...) as "things" or as "food" and disregard the fact that they are alive simply because we don't consider them "sapient" and they lack the higher cognitive thinking that we've evolved is truly saddening to say the least.
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