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I have seen it.. YIKES!
I couldn't make it through the whole thing. But yikes is right!
I have seen it.. YIKES!
When I was a child, we used to clean the viscera of the animals we farmed/slaughtered or hunted. Until we got older, then we'd pack it up for the freezer or prepare it for the smoke house. I don't think I saw the inside of a grocery store until I was 5, and also thought that family ranching/farming/hunting was how here everyone got their meat products.When I was a child my stepfather used to take my brother and I to a farm to look at cows and figure out which one he was going to buy and have butchered and wrapped for our family. Until I was in college I thought that's how everyone bought meat!
So long, and thanks for all the fish!!
Well during the onslaught of PETA I went out and bought a full length mink coat ( I want to go on record by saying I never really wanted a fur coat, but I bought it to piss the PETA people off), and was in Aspen at the time that they changed the smoking laws in restaurants (at the time you could only smoke at the bar) So to make a long story short, one night out I ordered Veal and the waiter was so disgusted with my coat, my cigarettes and my order, (he was not able to hide contempt as well as most do here) At the end of the meal he asked me how I could own such a coat and eat veal with no remorse? I said " How are you going to be able to spend the tip I'm giving you without remorse?
I'm pretty sure that Anna Wintour and I are not the only two people wearing fur and eating veal!ok. little stories like that give tremendous insight. my dad had grown up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, after
the cows passed their prime, they were sent out for slaughter. (unless it was a prize
cow, in which case she was retired to "pasture" for breeding). so he came out to Los Angeles to visit at christmas a number of years back. we passed a PETA protest on rodeo drive in beverly hills. he made a remark to the effect "what do they think they're going to accomplish with that little rally of theirs?" well, very soon after that "little rally" the fur trade was effectively driven (by guilt, embarrassment, and the illusion of "political correctness") out of the wardrobes of most film stars in hollywood. PETA was right on target. protests work to change consciousness.
at least my dad's anti PETA stance was rooted in a farmboy innocence and the "laws of nature" as they had been handed down.
btw my dad actually loved animals, having grown up around them.
I'm pretty sure that Anna Wintour and I are not the only two people wearing fur and eating veal!
just shows how old and out of touch you are with contemporary society. or i suppose you just march to your own drummer.
i'm not very young anymore myself.
The beauty of living in a free country is we all have a choice. In what we eat and what we wear, I respect the choices that others make and would not dream of convincing them otherwise and expect the same respect in return.
Am I reading correctly? nudeyorker wore a mink coat and smoked cigarettes in a restaurant to - what? -prove a point? To be coyly decadent? To express first admendment rights?
This is arrogant, misplaced rebelliousness. You sure showed those damned PETA people! Why not smoke a cigar & slit the throat of a cat at the restaurant just to hammer the "point" home?
Great torso by the way nudeyorker.
I bet I can fricassee that torso, use olive oil, fresh mint & white wine, garnish the plate, and have you tasting just like veal.
That's a pretty harrowing video.
Under UK law, the treatment of cattle, sheep and pigs are monitored under the Animal Welfare Act. As for the farmed bird species, they still get a raw deal and are still allowed to be battery farmed. The British consumer has backlashed against this, you'll find many free range and organic eggs on the shelves, the demand for these is outgrowing the demand for battery.
(The Independent a few years back....)
Animal Welfare Act: Cattle
Animal Welfare Act: Pigs
Animal Welfare Act: Sheep
The video that was posted above....does this truly show the general state of animal farming in the US?
"Slowly the deer would approach, step by step, until it was almost nuzzling him, whereupon Ford Prefect would reach out to it and break its neck. "Pheromone control ... you just have to know how to generate the right smell."
Reminds me of ... http://www.lpsg.org/114260-eau-du-whopper-burgers-belief.html?highlight=burger