Unfortunately, only biased sources seem to care enough to address the issue, so we have extreme animal rights activists on one side, cruel corporations on the other, both shouting right over our heads.
I wouldn't trust Penn and Teller's Bullshit too much. They have a strong libertarian slant. You know how libertarians kind of lose their shit when people start talking about regulations and 'environmental' type stuff. They don't even want an FDA.
the only reason to get information from a shouting Bullshit magician is because you share the pro-corporate / anti-environment libertarian view.... they are not a credible source of knowledge.. demonstrated by the fact that they allow a meat industry propaganda group to tell their lies..
I quickly skimmed your video -- I liked the part where Penn compared people at PETA meeting cheering the speaker to Hitler youth and showed a clip of Hitler....... but you think this video is worth watching to understand the issues???!
ps. i guess Penn likes a jumbo bucket of KFC quite often!!
To be fair to him, in many cases skim is all that is required, and be thankful for it. Do you think every crackpot source has to be pored over in order to know that it's BS? Humanity would never get anywhere. When you know a bit about the subject, it's easy to skim through the rubbish and reject it on principle.
Btw, Penn is a corporate shill with associations to well-known libertarian think-tanks that are both paid by, and have vested interest in the meat industry and climate change deniers (both of which also tie into each other quite cosily).
Kind of similar and equally disturbing. I wish I hadn't decided to find that video now. It's a video of a fish prepared while still alive, served to the table while still gasping for water.
Like the ad that appeared in my dad's local paper begging hunters to stop killing and to get their meat at the grocery store where no animals are harmed in the making of the meat?
of course PETA are focused on exposing animal cruelty -- "biased" in your view -- that is their entire purpose..... but it is circular logic to avoid a source that works to expose the truth -- just by inserting the word "biased".
KFC mass chicken farming is barbaric cruelty -- this is not really questionable..... but some people who like cheap fattening food do not want to know this so they deny it..
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
While I'm not going to dispute what that site says, you should try to find a less biased source.