sapphi_snake said:
Disgusting. Can you give details? What products should I avoid? |
Baisically all meat that you haven't shot yourself or know the growers really. Or meat specifically labeled "cruelty free" which is going to cost you a lot more, and even then is no gurantee. Always buy local if you can.
It's really hard to tell what is factory farmed and what isn't. Something like 60% of the world's meat is factory farmed, with the majority of that being the Western world.
Hence why in another post I was saying hunting isn't cruel compaired to farming though.
As for details, basically to save money, the butchered animal parts people can't eat are ground up into the feed and fed back to the surviving animals. Even in countries where it's been banned to put in animal meat like the UK, they still often feed them their own blood gelatin and fat.
Seems like your biggest issue factory farm wise is Smithfield, not only is it using inhumane and unsafe methods, it's putting Romanians out of buisness. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfield.html?_r=1&ref=dining&pagewanted=all
