Re: Enough to yank your chain!!! PETA partner??

Posted by Larry Ks. on August 26, 2002 at 19:21:59 from (216.212.40.120):

In Reply to: Enough to yank your chain!!! PETA partner?? posted by ShepFL on August 26, 2002 at 11:52:49:

Just read thru some of the web site...I hate to say this....but she's about 60-80% right on most of what I read. I've hauled cattle and hogs back when I drove a cattle truck. I've seen IBP slaughter cattle, I've never been in a pork processing plant. I've seen big time hog production farms, and thats pretty much the way they treat their hogs. I personally don't eat (or very, very, very rarely) eat pork or chicken that isn't farm raised and processed on the farm.
Its a damn shame things have to be like this. I don't suppose there is really any truly humane way to kill an animal for slaughter. I guess I'm just a "light weight", when I take a steer in to the locker for processing, I always get up real early and get there before they start butchering, and that way I don't have to see any blood, etc. Somehow I do believe there should be a better more humane way to do all this stuff, but I don't have any practical ideas on how it would really be done. I personally would like to see people buy a hog or steer from a small producer. I know that the locker plant is 100X more humane in their treatment of the animals that they slaughter (at least where I go I think they are) as opposed to the mega slaughter houses we have these days. The amazing thing is, if you ever eat a chicken or turkey....fresh from the farm, never frozen, its like a day and night difference between that and what you get in town at the grocery store. Or, for that matter even beef.....my wife swears she can smell the difference cooking hamburger...comparing home grown to store bought. I think its the difference between the way you feed a steer at home, versus the way feedlots do, and perhaps, the way you handle them.

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