1. Not all animals are treated like that.

2. But this is a reality.

3. No food is safe... there is horror in the produce industry too about unclean, unsanitary food.

4. If you are concerned about this, research and buy meat which is produced in more ethical ways.

5. To the girl in the blog: Or don't eat meat at all, and become a back-seat vegan, where one occasionally posts on a messageboard or blog about their outrage at practices which are common knowledge by now without really doing anything proactive to fix the problem.

6. I watched, and now I crave some chicken McNuggets.

What exactly can a person do other than not buy meat or dairy products?

I've been a semi-vegetarian (I still eat fish) since before most of you were born. I am for a few reasons:

1. Morality -- I don't like causing pain to any creature that can feel it, especially when I don't need to cause it ... (I'm a semi-hypocrite because I think that fish are low enough on the evolutionary scale that it doesn't matter as much)

2. Protest -- By not buying or eating meat, I am boycotting places that mistreat the animals this poorly. They're not getting any of my money if I can help it.

3. Health -- Almost every doctor will tell you that cutting meat out of your diet as much as possible is healthier for you. Our bodies are closer to primarily vegetarian animals and can't digest meat as well.

Do what John Robbins did. When Diet for a New America came out, meat consumption in the US dropped by 18%. He was responsible for much of it.

The problem with PETA, and many activists, is that they try to get people to give up meat altogether, and they're not very nice about it. Of course this backfires, and people get defensive and cling to meat even more. There is a saying that if you get 100 people to eat 1% less meat, it's the same as converting one person to vegetarianism. The activists should focus their efforts around this philosophy.

I know I cant make a difference, are even hurt those awful companies that treat their animals like that...

But I feel morally responsible to give up meat....

Whether or not those companies are affected by descisions like this, I dont know, but I do know I'll feel better and healthier knowing that I may have saved a poor little chickens life.

If you're gonna go vegetarian, be smart about it.

Meat is a very important part of our diet, and if you're giving it up, better consult books and/or nutritionists on how to eat properly. Otherwise you might cause some severe problems for yourself.

What about the poor vegetables? Can a potato uproot itself and try to get away? No. Can a head of lettuce or a mushroom bite the farmer who tries to harvest it? No.

Everyday vegetables are stripped of their leaves, have their roots dismembered, and are separated and graded, like ... well, like tomatoes.

How many carrots have their lives ended prematurely just so you can have those "baby" carrots you like snacking on so much?

Save the defenseless garden vegetables. Just because they don't have eyes (except the potatoes, of course) to shed tears or mouths to cry out, they have feelings, too!

No meat, no vegetables. We should all just stop eating all together! We will survive without food. We can live on "feeling good" about ourselves.

#-o

I'm thinking of giving up meat for lent, but I'm not sure. I'm already giving up pop, which I drink way to much of, so it couldn't hurt to. I don't have a problem eating it, but I don't want to know where it came from, if that makes sense. I'll probably end up not giving it up (except for Friday's) because I like it too much. Some things I can go without, but I can't see myself not having a hot dog, hamburger or sausage for 40 days.

If you're gonna go vegetarian, be smart about it.

Meat is a very important part of our diet, and if you're giving it up, better consult books and/or nutritionists on how to eat properly. Otherwise you might cause some severe problems for yourself.

What about the poor vegetables? Can a potato uproot itself and try to get away? No. Can a head of lettuce or a mushroom bite the farmer who tries to harvest it? No.

Everyday vegetables are stripped of their leaves, have their roots dismembered, and are separated and graded, like ... well, like tomatoes.

How many carrots have their lives ended prematurely just so you can have those "baby" carrots you like snacking on so much?

Save the defenseless garden vegetables. Just because they don't have eyes (except the potatoes, of course) to shed tears or mouths to cry out, they have feelings, too!

No meat, no vegetables. We should all just stop eating all together! We will survive without food. We can live on "feeling good" about ourselves.

#-o

Are you catholic?