The truth about meat products?

Question

i know there are plenty of vegans out there that are pissed off at the way the meat and animal product industries treat their victims. I hear alot of bad things but i am not sure what is rumor or what is true- could you inform me? because if half of the things i hear are true, i want to go vegan also.

Answer 1

In the words of Ron White...

"What are you doing to help the enviroment Ron?"

"I'm eating the cow."

Answer 2

Well i am a veggie but not a Vegan because whats the problem with eating cheese and milk its just a cow being milked nothings done to harm it like meat. Its better for your bones not to become vegan but its okaii to be a veggie but nothings wrong if you are worried by the free range stuff thats treated extra nice for more info www.peta2.com . there are yum recipes for veggies but vegans cant eat much :( Hope this helped hun but go vegan if yoo want xx

Answer 3

www.meat.org <<< this is the truth ...

Answer 4

unfortunately i think that the few bad companies who treat their animals poorly get most of the media attention, which makes it seem that abuse happens more than it actually does. i think most of the meat industry tries their best to care for and euthanize the animals humanely.

peta tends to blow things out of proportion or twist words to make things seem worse than they actually are. for example, they did a report that a professor at my college was the worst offender in the country of abuse of the cats in his research study. peta's article completely twisted his words around and made it seem like he was removing the cats' eyes while they were still awake, which was completely false! the professor removed an eye while the cat was under anesthesia and the cats were acting like normal, happy, healthy cats afterward.

i think the humane society of america's reports are a lot more trustworthy than peta's.

Answer 5

The truth about meat is........ That its delicious!

Answer 6

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...

Answer 7

The truth about meat is that it is a completely sustainable product and provides nutrients that our bodies need..

AS far as the proselytizing about

"Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle" (as quoted by the poster above...)

it's a lie...

there is no cruelty free in the life of a field animal..

many are killed brutally with the use of harvesters and combines in the cutlivation of veggies...others are intentionally poisoned around grain elevators..for YOU and for ME....

Rabbits, birds, moles, voles, frogs, squirrels, rats, mice (and more)

ALL are sacrificial animals, expendable, in the production of veggies...

"cruelty free" is a bold lie told by completely dishonest people...

I welcome your thumbs down..  ( =

Answer 8

death is never pretty but is a fact of life

Answer 9

go to goveg.com and click on "meet your meat" on the left hand side.

it made me turn vegetarian over a year ago.

Answer 10

yes!!!!!!  peta  look up the site,

Answer 11

Mightypower7 gives a completely sane answer and gets thumb-downed to death.  Glad I clicked on "show me".

Well, may as well join her.  Since all the previously listed websites are completely biased, I should try to balance the scales.  That's what liberals like, right?  Balanced discussions?  Hah.  Sure.

www.beef.org

Answer 12

the truth about meat products is, is that  they are bread to use for us to eat meat, if no one ate meat the farmers would be out of business, like sheep, pigs, lamb, chickens, these all,so lay eggs, what other products contain eggs that humans buy, beef, without the cow we would not have milk, even dried for babies, we would have no cheese, or even butter, so what is the truth about meat products?

Answer 13

What is a Vegan?

A vegan is someone who, for various reasons, chooses to avoid using or consuming animal products. While vegetarians choose not to use flesh foods, vegans also avoid dairy and eggs, as well as fur, leather, wool, down, and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals.

Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle. Living vegan provides numerous benefits to animals' lives, to the environment, and to our own health–through a healthy diet and lifestyle.

For The Animals

Despite the common belief that drinking milk or eating eggs does not kill animals, commercially-raised dairy cows and egg-laying chickens, whether factory-farmed or "free range", are slaughtered when their production rates decline.  The same factory farm methods that are used to produce most meats are also used to produce most milk and eggs.  These cows and chickens live their short lives caged, drugged, mutilated, and deprived of their most basic freedoms.

On U.S. farms, egg-laying hens spend their entire lives in a battery cage with a floor area the size of a vinyl record cover. Living on wire floors that deform their feet, in cages so tiny they cannot stretch their wings, and covered with excrement from cages above them, these chickens suffer lameness, bone disease, and obsessive pecking, which is curbed by searing the beaks off young chicks.  Although chickens can live up to 15 years, they are usually slaughtered when their egg production rates decline after two years. Hatcheries have no use for male chicks, so they are killed by suffocation, decapitation, gassing, or crushing.

As with any mammal, cows produce milk only when pregnant and stop after their calves have been weaned. When a dairy cow delivers a female calf, the calf becomes a dairy cow herself, born to live in the same conditions as her mother. But when a dairy cow delivers a male calf, the calf is sold to a veal farm within days of birth, where he is tethered to a stall, deprived of food and exercise, and soon slaughtered for meat.  Life is only a few years longer for the mother. Because it is unprofitable to keep cows alive once their milk production declines, dairy cows are usually slaughtered at 5 years of age.  Thus, a cow's normal lifespan of 25 years is cut 20 years short just to cut costs and maximize production.

Today's farms are not like the ones most of us learned about in school; they are mechanized factories where an animal's welfare is of little concern compared to profit. Veganism emerges as the lifestyle most consistent with the philosophy that animals are not ours to use.

For The Environment

Animal agriculture takes a devastating toll on the earth. It is an inefficient way of producing food, since feed for farm animals requires land, water, fertilizer, and other resources that could otherwise have been used directly for producing human food.

Animal agriculture's dependence on higher yields accelerates topsoil erosion on our farmlands, rendering land less productive for crop cultivation, and forcing the conversion of wilderness to grazing and farm lands.  Animal waste from massive feedlots and factory farms is a leading cause of pollution in our groundwater and rivers.  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has linked animal agriculture to a number of other environmental problems, including: contamination of aquatic ecosystems, soil, and drinking water by manure, pesticides, and fertilizers; acid rain from ammonia emissions; greenhouse gas production; and depletion of aquifers for irrigation.

In a time when population pressures have become an increasing stress on the environment, there are additional arguments for a vegan diet. The United Nations has reported that a vegan diet can feed many more people than an animal-based diet. For instance, projections have estimated that the 1992 food supply could have fed about 6.3 billion people on a purely vegetarian diet.

For Your Health

The consumption of animal fats and proteins has been linked to heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and a number of other debilitating conditions.  Cows' milk contains ideal amounts of fat and protein for young calves, but far too much for humans. And eggs are higher in cholesterol than any other food, making them a leading contributor to cardiovascular disease. The American Dietetic Association reports that vegetarian/vegan diets are associated with reduced risks for all of these conditions.

Vegan foods, such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, are low in fat, contain no cholesterol, and are rich in fiber and nutrients. Vegans can get all the protein they need from legumes (e.g., beans, tofu, peanuts) and grains (e.g., rice, corn, whole wheat breads and pastas); calcium from broccoli, kale, collard greens, tofu, fortified juices and soymilks; iron from chickpeas, spinach, pinto beans, and soy products; and B12 from fortified foods or supplements.

With planning, a vegan diet can provide all the nutrients we were taught as schoolchildren came only from animal products.

Also if you visit PETA's website it will tell you exactly how animals are treated and killed...

Answer 14

the "Meet your Meat" video did it for me, I'm a new vegetarian, but Im trying to go Vegan all the way because its better for the animals and my health...if i could stop eating cheese, i'll be Vegan.

Answer 15

peta.com

search cows you wont beleive what you find

Answer 16

About 98% of the animals in the U.S. are confined to factory farms, where they are denied everything that's natural to them and abused in ways that would be illegal if cats or dogs were the victims.

Factory farming info:

http://mercyforanimals.org/factory_farmi...

"Free Me" by Goldfinger:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--4471...

Problems with "free range":

http://www.cok.net/lit/freerange.php

Eggs: http://www.chooseveg.com/eggs.asp

Dairy: http://www.chooseveg.com/dairy.asp

In my opinion, egg-laying hens are the most abused creatures on the planet. They're stuffed into tiny wire cages so small that they can barely move, and they can't even spread their wings. Imagine having to stand on a milk crate in bare feet for your whole life. One egg = about 24 hours spent in these conditions. :(

Info about going vegan:

http://www.tryveg.com

Answer 17

Go to: http://www.themeatrix1.com/

Answer 18

Watch the video "free me" by goldfinger. It should be on youtube. That's all the proof you should need.