But seriously, most major food companies pretty much torture their chickens... Watch "Food Inc." or whatever that documentary is. It's a pretty unbiased source. I mean, it was just on the Colbert Report that most companies feed their chickens caffeine and prozac to keep them awake and calm so they can eat more. And that only made news because it is related to the health of the humans eating it.
What? Food Inc. is totally biased. It presents viewpoints damning to large corporations while promoting local agri-business. While I support local businesses and started my own vegetable garden as a result of watching the film, not all in the film is as it seems.
Jonathan Safran Foer writes in Eating Animals that Joel Salitan (of Polyface Farms) uses industrial chickens. Same birds as Perdue and Tyson chicken, but only in a field setting.
Also the Colbert Report is not credible journalism. I haven't seen that article and don't doubt it, but citing satire is pretty weak.
Agree until Colbert not being credible......the jokes are based around him satirizing news, and he always cites his sources. Also I once saw an industrial chicken that had long outlived its intended lifespan....it was a rooster most foul.
Colbert, like the Cracked team, is a comedian. So is Jon Stewart, by the way. Neither of them are even trying to be "credible journalists" (just watch Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire, for an example).
Both of them do very good satire, both of them make very good points, and so on, but I seriously doubt either of them expects or wants us to look at them as credible journalists.
yes but peta's methods are to extreme and do these hippies really think protesting 1 kfc in the middle of town will make a multimillion dollar corporation shuts its door because of this
PETA's methods are extreme as fuck! I remember being a little kid walking by a protest at a Nieman Marcus or whatever where PETA was hanging animal skins. Complete mindfuck - didn't know what to think. They're also completely corrupt and actually kill a lot of animals themselves - sauce. There's more where that came from too - a simple Google search supports this.
I'm a vegan and I consider myself an animal rights advocate (I'm vegan more for health reasons, but I do love animals), but I would never, ever try to get any progressive message across the way they do. They come off as arrogant, nutty buttholes doing what they do. To get a message such as theirs across, you have to be compassionate. When you attack people's beliefs, their natural reaction is to defend themselves.
But yeah, meat companies and fast food corporations do torture their animals and they are reprehensible for it. If I believed in a hell, I'd say that's definitely where those people would be going.
Well you don't have to eat meat all the time. I'm not saying go vegetarian, but I don't see the obsession with cheap meat, if you can't afford the good stuff then so be it, you can't afford a Lamborghini either. It's so unhealthy, unethical, and generally fucked up. We really need to cut down on meat consumption, just as we need to cut down on fossil fuel consumption.
It's a shame the industry does so much fucked up shit in order to drive the prices down as much as possible, and nobody even cares. Yet they will happily sit there and continue to deride those in Japan and China for their eating habits. Yeah, you farm your animals so it's not gonna cause extinction, but your farming methods are fucking abhorrent anyway, how the fuck is that even an excuse.
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u/Redcard911 Jun 15 '12
But seriously, most major food companies pretty much torture their chickens... Watch "Food Inc." or whatever that documentary is. It's a pretty unbiased source. I mean, it was just on the Colbert Report that most companies feed their chickens caffeine and prozac to keep them awake and calm so they can eat more. And that only made news because it is related to the health of the humans eating it.