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Mandylion said:Just to add, things can be graphic at times.
Satori said:"Meet Your Meat" video: http://www.meetyourmeat.com/
nice gaijin said:2 years is quite a deep grave to exhume for a thread, but since it died such a quick death...
One thing I've noticed is the lack of effectiveness of the "shock value" on people who have already established their eating habits.
Showing them how things are might make them say "oh my god I never realized it was like this, I'll never eat meat again" will last about a month, if that.
Not to use him as an example, but Bossel's reply is quite common in the sense that nobody wants the animals they eat to suffer. But there's a huge disconnect between people in modern countries nowadays.
Perhaps that's what this video is trying to address, but I think it's going about it in an ineffective way.
I'm afraid I have no numbers for you, but I was told this by a professor who has much in his curriculum about the dangers, toxicity, and general unhealthfulness that arises from the way we farm and raise livestock. Over 25 years he has had countless students come to him with the same exultations of conversion to vegetarianism after realizing the horrors of the meatpacking industry, only to slip back into those eating habits by the next term. He adjusted his curriculum to slowly acclimate his students to such truths to reduce the "oh my god how did i sign up for this hippy liberal ****" factor, and found a higher "success" rate of students willing to make geniune efforts toward cutting meat out of their diet.strongvoicesforward said:Do you have a wide spread study with data on this? or Are you just musing about those in your daily life you have come in contact with?
Thor said:I know that animals aren't stupid. I get urges to go vegetarian sometimes. I dunno if that would do any good. I can't eat a piece of chicken while I know it could have been a mother that communicated with it's babies before ending up on my plate. It's a bit depressing too.
Thor said:I know that animals aren't stupid. I get urges to go vegetarian sometimes. I dunno if that would do any good. I can't eat a piece of chicken while I know it could have been a mother that communicated with it's babies before ending up on my plate. It's a bit depressing too.
Tokis-Phoenix said:I'm not a vegetarian, but i eat very little meat (really just beef, maybe once a month or less). I know SVF will disagree with me here, but i don't its wrong to eat animals as long as they are treated well and their basic requirements are attended to properly (like given good healthy food, allowed to live outdoors, allowed to have their social and health needs attended properly like if the animal gets sick its taken to a vet and treated and not left to rot etc), and are killed in a humane manner.
Thunderthief said:They are tastey when its all with over though... there sacrafice's are not in vein.
KrazyKat said:I very much support you here. The gap between 'good and 'bad' here is most definately between free range meat and factory farmed meat not vegetarian and meat eater. I feel that AR and AW organisations are failing to promote free range meat and other products enough. What does annoy me is people who say 'I would be vegetarain but I would miss meat too much' but then are still buying factory farmed meat!
The meat-your-meat video worked for me, but I was already slowly becoming a vetgetarian at the time. Realising how some animals are treated just kind of 'solidified' the change. I agree with nice gaijin saying that a sudden change to vegetarianism is likely to result in a return to meat eating. I would say the most effective way is to slowly cut out meat, and replace that which is still being eaten with free range meat.
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