No one has ever made anything like this before.

My eyes have truly been opened.

I'm hungry.

So no one here has seen Food Inc.? I believe it's still on Netflix. Fucked me up real good too, was the the main motivating factor in my decision to go with organic, free range grass fed meats and dairy produced from these animals. Shit is expensive as hell but whatever, I would do it even if only for how much better it all tastes. Then there are all of the drugs used on the animals that we consume and of course how horrible the animals are treated.

I didn't actually watch the video because I don't have the stomach for seeing stuff like that, I only made it to 37 sec. Food Inc. is not graphic like that but the info. will most likely make you mad as hell. Good thing is you actually have a real choice not to support this shit.

We are overpopulating the world and there is a demand to produce meat in cheap quantity. It aint that great but its the most efficient way to produce what is demanded by modern society. No one can defend the sickos abusing the animals but some times force is needed to get the food to where we need it.

@toadslayer: Food Inc was a fun documentary, I tried grass fed beef(actually due to the documentary "Corn!") and it is shockingly different from regular beef, but I really dont like beef either way. I live off chicken breast but could never fit the bill on $5 a pound chicken versus my normal $2.

I think most if not everything shown in that video is illegal in Sweden. I hope it is.
I'm pretty sure though that many of the people in the video would go to jail or get fined if they did such things over here. It's hard to believe that such disgusting and cruel people exists. They need some serious help.

Having been on farms and ranches before, as well as slaughter houses, either things are done drastically different here in Alberta or this video is propaganda involving clips from the worst 0.1% of facilities ...

Personally, I'm betting on propaganda

I hear what you are saying about the price, I think that's the main stumbling block for most people, it's too bad.

Make no mistake....slaughter houses are a messy business. But this video has been confirmed as one of the more isolated cases of excessive animal cruelty. Suppliers like Costco actually dropped them for other companies.

In the end, these companies gotta mass produce these animals for millions of households. Don't like it, then either stop eating meat or kill these animals yourselves. Ya, thats what I thought.

Holy fuck. I was aware of the terrible living conditions for caged animals, but i was unaware of the surprisingly shoddy killing practices

Granted the question of natural life spans for any of these animals is irrelevant, given that their ultimate purpose is food, except for the male chicks. I mean, that's just plain wasteful, whether you have animal morality in mind or not, to have to kill ~50% of them right off the bat shows that you're doing something wrong

while yes, this is most certainly propaganda, this still happens.

though not as often as they would like us to believe.

any way, what we can do to solve this problem and eliminate it, is as consumers vote with your wallet.

if a practices actions that you disagree with, simply dont buy from there. these companies will self regulate, if people choose not to buy from them.

consumer reporters, and the consumers themselves is all we need.

edit: and by vote with you wallet, i dont mean choose a vegan diet like this hippy video said to do, i meant choose meat companies that dont do this stuff (read: most of them)