I used to be a vegan and veggie at different times and I did a lot of research beforehand.
That's where quite a lot of meat eaters go wrong as well, only you don't mean it in a cruel way. Just because the animal will end up dead doesn't mean anything. It's like if I ever mucked out a stable and left it for a week telling... See more the owner" it'll just get dirty again. What's the point?"
Humane eggs are from chickens who haven't been cooped up with no sunlight and no room to move. Humane chickens are chickens who live longer and live the way nature intended. With sun, corn, grass etc. I used to work on a meat site, I've been into abattoirs. There is a big difference between killing humanely and not. Most cases I've seen beforehand, and some I've stopped during much to the chargrain of my bosses.
In a way it is helping the environment like the cycle of life, the fox keeps down the rabbit population. We keep down the cows otherwise they will over populate fields thus overcrowding. Cows and other farm animals produce gases that harm the environment, also with no space to move they'll starve to death.
Only the people buying the products will sway the supermarkets to stock decent produce, not buying it may express your views on the topic but it won't change much. We need a high majority of the public to buy meat produced and slaughtered humanely. You're forgetting that supermarkets only think in terms of money.
I agree with the exploitation part though and I respect your choice to not eat animals. Few people who don't eat meat respect the choice of people who do. We are a race that thrives off using others for our own gain, good intentions or not. It's just human nature only backed up with the fact that we as a race are meant to eat meat, our ability to think for ourselves allows us the choice.
The people like Hugh Fearnley who actively produce animals in a humane way should be praised. We need more celebrities to back it. It is a pity not many people do. Farmers don't want to produce unhappy animals, the wellbeing of an animal matters very much to a carer. I know, I worked with horses and other animals since I was seven. Rule number one, the animal come first, then the customer, then sometimes the carer. The supermarkets have just confused what comes first and needs the public to set it straight.
Join Compassion World Farming, it's a site which is very useful and will show you what meat eaters do to ensure the meat we eat has had a good, long and natural life. There are also petitions on there so vegetarian's can help as well.
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That speaks volumes about an omnivore perpsective though doesn't it - it's OK to eat creatures as long as they're not cute, like cats, dogs, lambs (below a certain size) etc
Couldn't the same be said for "forcing" them to drink milk from a different species?
) because no one would even try to change anything. they usually shut up after this, but it still is very bad to hear that most people think that way.
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I've just been eating Lays chips because even the dark chocolate I've found contains milk ingredients 
I'm so happy I'm healthy!!!! Compared to some of my friends who will guarantee have heart disease and be overweight by the time they are 50! 
I don't see them searching up the pros and cons to eating meat. So do they actually believe you need meat to be healthy, or are they just trying to justify their sick diets?
But since going vegan, I realised how addicted I had been to sugar! When I eat heaps of sugar now, I get a tingley feeling and then just crave it more...
But I have stood firm and now resist the sugary temptations, except maybe once every two weeks...
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by Lierre Kieth. Her story parallels my own in many ways, even down to the encounter with Weston Price’s book. She laid out so beautifully how Vegetarianism is more than just destructive for our bodies, it is destructive to our eco-system. Farming is what turned the fertile cresent into a desert, what turned the Nile Valley into sand dunes… and remember, that was Organic Farming! They did not have the “Commercial” or “Industrial” farming practices that we do today!
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