| Recently I watched a very disturbing video on | | | | ok to treat these farm animals so inhumanely? I can't |
| YouTube called "Meet Your Meat". This video is a | | | | even fathom it. I suppose, though, that's it's easiest |
| graphic documentary about the animals that we | | | | to turn a blind eye. Especially those of us who eat |
| derive our meat from and how they are treated | | | | meat-(yes, myself included). No one wants to think |
| before slaughter. What I saw sickened me! Hundreds | | | | that the hamburger we are cooking tonight has come |
| and hundreds of cows, chickens, and pigs that never | | | | from a cow that has been grossly and inhumanely |
| got to see the outside of a barn as they are raised | | | | mistreated from its birth to its death! |
| in tiny stalls filled with their own excrement for the | | | | I watched this video almost two months ago, and I |
| whole of their lives. Newborn calves being ripped | | | | still cannot get the images out of my mind. Watching |
| away from their mothers just after birth so that the | | | | it has in fact caused me to begin to re-evaluate |
| industry could take her milk from her--for our | | | | some of my eating choices. While I cannot say I've |
| consumption. Cows strung up by their back legs and | | | | become a total vegetarian as yet, I have begun |
| their throats slit open so that they they can 'bleed | | | | looking for local farms that sell 'Certified Organic' |
| out'--while they are still alive! I couldn't believe my | | | | meats. At least by purchasing these products I know |
| eyes, honestly, and seeing this haunting video made | | | | that the animals I and my family are dining on are |
| me resolve to change my ways as much as I could. | | | | treated in a humane way. |
| In our society today where even animals have the | | | | If you are interested in eating organic meats and |
| right to humane treatment I wondered, how are we | | | | wonder where you can purchase them, type |
| letting this happen? Is it just because the word is not | | | | "Certified Organic" into google along with your |
| out yet? I mean, we would be disgusted and angry if | | | | location. I did the same and found several farms in |
| we ever heard of a dog or cat treated this way. And | | | | my area that sell these products. You must look for |
| nowadays there are organizations working in our | | | | 'Certified Organic', though. If it says only 'Organic' you |
| society that are specifically set up to protect animals | | | | cannot be certain that the animals are up to the |
| all across North America. How, then, do we make it | | | | highest standards. |