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Farm To Fridge-The Real Truth youtube video. R animals in ireland treated the same

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  • #2
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    phonejacker wrote: »
    this is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxHl6kZROQw

    Some chickens and pigs are treated in this way in Ireland. But as a consumer, it is up to you to choose if you want to buy the cheap meat that is produced in this way or if you are willing to pay the extra to the farmers that it costs to feed and produce these animals in a much less intensive way.

    I think the cattle section goes too far. Certainly, our cows are almost treated like humans. Surgical proceedures are done with anesthetic. The majority of farmers that I know, do the same. The video is propoganda - some of it is true. But a lot of it is sensationalised. How would you cut a cow's throath to slaughter her??? You'd be killed. Humane slaughter has been practiced in this country for at least the last 30 years.

    There is a reality in the video though. In order to produce meat, we have to have slaughter houses. The animals have to be killed, there's no other way.

    However, as I said before, there are rules and regulations that farmers work and live by. 999 out of 1000 follow these rukes and regulations to a T. However, there is always a video camera present when the other 1 guy (out of 1000) breaks the law.

    If the video wanted to present a fair argument about meat, why did it not show grass fed animals, free range pigs and chickens, regulated and comfortable transport vehicles and meat factories using proper slaughter techniques???? In other words, the video makers have an agenda which is to show gruesome images from across the globe in order to persuade people not to eat meat - no matter how or where the meat that they can access is produced.


  • #3
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Firstly can't open the link at the moment.

    But I can imagine the video content and can agree with what Reilig is saying.

    We have reached a stage where the vast majority of humans in the developed world have become too detached from the reality of where their food comes from.

    It's no longer necessary to go out and hunt or forage for your food, it's literally 'their on a plate' ( or a cheap plastic ready meal container at least :rolleyes:)

    Get 'real' people ..... to eat meat an animal has to be killed..... Humanely (but even that word doesn't sound right.... their animals :rolleyes:


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