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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  That depends on your marketing budget.
Problems like bad PR due to debeaking chickens or feeding cows cement dust to increase their weight can be effectively addressed with a few billion dollars of advertising, some political lobbying, and harsh penalties for whistleblowers. At least that's the current strategy being employed by the animal products industry. It works pretty well as long as most people prefer to keep their heads in the sand.
Does the cigarette industry have credibility? Or the oil industry? It doesn't really matter if people are already addicted to their products.
As for PETA I'm on their list to receive their progress updates every week or two. Most people don't want to know the kinds of things they uncover, and you won't see a lot of their work in the mainstream press because the dominant advertisers won't allow it. The info is all available for free on their various web sites though, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization. FWIW PETA has actually made quite a bit of progress this year and has gotten many companies and organizations to stop torturing animals needlessly. Many people dislike their tactics, but they are making a dent in animal cruelty. |
So based on your info rom PETA, would you say that animal cruelty is the norm? Or at least, would it be safe to say that a significant percentage of meat we eat has come from a source such as this?
WHat about organic meat? From my nutritional studies which are semi-biased towards a vegan lifestyle since I think a lot of the authors of the course materials are vegan, they still say that if you are going to eat meat, as long as the meat comes from a Certified Organic source, you're ok. Meaning, you're still killing an animal, and the meat is still not good for you due to the high amounts of saturated fat etc. so health wise it's not good to eat it, but animal cruelty wise it's not the same as non-organic meat. The animals on organic farms are not treated like crap and the chickens run around like normal chickens and are not stuffed in cages. There is no drugs or antibiotics or hormones put into them either.
THere are several farms I've seen out close to where I live where you can go and buy meat from the farmer himself (butcher) and you can see the animals in the back running around. They are organic.