Would a boycott be in order for McDonalds?

[Misty]

If I had to kill my own meat, I would be a vegetarian.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

If I had to kill my own meat, I would be a vegetarian.

You do know that vegetarians kill vegetables.

 

[saveliberty]

Worms kiss vegetables. Flies puke on them. Aphids have sex on them.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

If I had to kill my own meat, I would be a vegetarian.

That's my motto. I won't eat anything I couldn't kill myself. I will eat fish but nothing else. I don't like the texture of flesh, especially the toxic biohazard they sell in the grocery store.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I am not trying to promote PETA I just found it sickening the way those chickens were being slaughtered.

You were expecting wholesale animal slaughter to be pretty?

I have two questions out of sheer curiosity. One, if you're not a big PETA freak, why were you on their website? Two, did you bother to try to find out WHY the methods you object to are being used? In other words, did you look for the other side of the argument, or did you just take PETA's word for everything?

I was on a web site that had an advertisement of Jena Jameson, I was really more interested in seeing a necked picture of the porn star then I was of peta. and for your second question if you would do the same and read futher you would see that any question you have for me will have been answered,

Read WHAT further? The PETA website? I asked what research YOU did, not them. The thread? Did that, haven't seen an answer, so kindly pick your uppity little wedgie out of your crack and answer the question, now that I'm being forced to ask it a second time. Believe it or not, it's completely legitimate for me to question a newbie as to why I should trust anything he posts.

 

[Cecilie1200]

No, but back on the farm we killed are chicken as painless as possible and they were dead before they were defeathered.

And exactly how many chickens were you killing at a time "back on the farm"?

Two or three a week

So do you think that maybe killing millions a day might have requirements just a TAD different from killing two or three a week? Did you consider at ALL that your cherished "back on the farm" methods might not be practical or feasible on a mass production scale?

 

[Cecilie1200]

I'm not sure PETA is the most impartial judge here. I see chickens being treated inhumanely...but nothing that says they're destined to be McNuggets.

I'm curious, though...why can't the chickens just be decapitated?

I'm not sure how one decapitates live chickens on a mass scale. I'm thinking they move a lot.

Can't be any more difficult than slitting their throats.

It can't? How do you know?

 

[Cecilie1200]

I have killed both chickens and turkeys. The best, and what appeared to be a humane method is to truss the bird upside down by it's legs. It totally relaxes when you do this. You truss it up on a tree or rafters of a shed. Then you take a very sharp knife and slit its throat. The bird will bleed out. It doesn't struggle at all, it just quickly goes unconscious. It's an excellent way to drain the blood from the bird's body, since the heart is still beating if you do it right.

And that's probably why the processors slit the throat instead of decapitating the bird.

Well, I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to guess that the slaughterhouses choose their methods based on efficiency and not because the owners and employees are all sadists, giggling with maniacal glee at the thought of suffering chickens.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I called it!

Apparently you were aware of the same route. Just saying.

Of course. Personally, though, I don't find her attractive. But wouldn't the world be boring if we all thought and felt the same?

Not to mention some porn sites would be clogged, while others would be empty.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I understand that the majority of Americans eat animals As a matter of fact I am a meat eater myself. But I think animals should be treated a little better then this even if they are for eating purposes.

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2631&c=mcgtba0810&s_src=padba

No boycott from me as I dont eat there too often and I dont get their chicken products.

 

[daveman]

I'm not sure how one decapitates live chickens on a mass scale. I'm thinking they move a lot.

Can't be any more difficult than slitting their throats.

It can't? How do you know?

Same target, but with slitting, you have to be more precise in depth of cut and power behind the blade so you don't go through the spine. Decapitation would be easier because all you have to hit is the target. You don't have to limit the power behind the blade nor the depth of the cut.

 

[daveman]

I have killed both chickens and turkeys. The best, and what appeared to be a humane method is to truss the bird upside down by it's legs. It totally relaxes when you do this. You truss it up on a tree or rafters of a shed. Then you take a very sharp knife and slit its throat. The bird will bleed out. It doesn't struggle at all, it just quickly goes unconscious. It's an excellent way to drain the blood from the bird's body, since the heart is still beating if you do it right.

And that's probably why the processors slit the throat instead of decapitating the bird.

Well, I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to guess that the slaughterhouses choose their methods based on efficiency and not because the owners and employees are all sadists, giggling with maniacal glee at the thought of suffering chickens.

I agree. Efficiency = profit.

 

[daveman]

Apparently you were aware of the same route. Just saying.

Of course. Personally, though, I don't find her attractive. But wouldn't the world be boring if we all thought and felt the same?

Not to mention some porn sites would be clogged, while others would be empty.

Please...won't someone think of the tentacle porn actresses?

 

[saveliberty]

And that's probably why the processors slit the throat instead of decapitating the bird.

Well, I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to guess that the slaughterhouses choose their methods based on efficiency and not because the owners and employees are all sadists, giggling with maniacal glee at the thought of suffering chickens.

I agree. Efficiency = profit.

We have a Bob Evans processing plant in town. They give the pigs a nice ride in a tractor trailer before the big event. Usually the pigs are squelling as they go by. Seem pretty happy. Efficiency and tolerable for the employees who have to go through this daily.

 

[daveman]

Well, I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to guess that the slaughterhouses choose their methods based on efficiency and not because the owners and employees are all sadists, giggling with maniacal glee at the thought of suffering chickens.

I agree. Efficiency = profit.

We have a Bob Evans processing plant in town. They give the pigs a nice ride in a tractor trailer before the big event. Usually the pigs are squelling as they go by. Seem pretty happy. Efficiency and tolerable for the employees who have to go through this daily.

I figure, if they don't like it, they can evolve and be on top of the food chain.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

You were expecting wholesale animal slaughter to be pretty?

I have two questions out of sheer curiosity. One, if you're not a big PETA freak, why were you on their website? Two, did you bother to try to find out WHY the methods you object to are being used? In other words, did you look for the other side of the argument, or did you just take PETA's word for everything?

I was on a web site that had an advertisement of Jena Jameson, I was really more interested in seeing a necked picture of the porn star then I was of peta. and for your second question if you would do the same and read futher you would see that any question you have for me will have been answered,

Read WHAT further? The PETA website? I asked what research YOU did, not them. The thread? Did that, haven't seen an answer, so kindly pick your uppity little wedgie out of your crack and answer the question, now that I'm being forced to ask it a second time. Believe it or not, it's completely legitimate for me to question a newbie as to why I should trust anything he posts.

OH the newbie thing? well you can kiss my newbie arse I don't owe you a damn thing. IT WAS THE VIDEO i WAS MORE INTRESTED IN THEN THE PETA CRAP

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Don't you just love how the meat industry has it rigged so it doesn't have to tell you exactly where they shipped their biohazard? I will never eat big agra meat. Ever. I'm not into what the meat industry considers "efficiency". "Yes, we may kill you, but we're making a tidy profit for our CEO's and shareholders, so all is good..."

1 million pounds of ground beef recalled – Paging Dr. Gupta - CNN.com Blogs

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Don't you just love how the meat industry has it rigged so it doesn't have to tell you exactly where they shipped their biohazard? I will never eat big agra meat. Ever. I'm not into what the meat industry considers "efficiency". "Yes, we may kill you, but we're making a tidy profit for our CEO's and shareholders, so all is good..."

1 million pounds of ground beef recalled – Paging Dr. Gupta - CNN.com Blogs

I agree

 

[saveliberty]

Get a grip. You want to boycott McDonalds for how the food's treated? What about how it is processed, what is added or its nutritional value? Make sure Chicken Little doesn't suffer, but let Johnny get obese.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Get a grip. You want to boycott McDonalds for how the food's treated? What about how it is processed, what is added or its nutritional value? Make sure Chicken Little doesn't suffer, but let Johnny get obese.

To each his own. Animals are only food when they have been prepared for that purpose. The mistreatment of animals for what ever purpose is uncalled for. Humans are the tenants of earth should we try to show some compassion even to those animals that you call food? The Native Americans showed respect to the animals they hunted, some tribes called them their brother.