K wrote:
> Dragonblaze wrote:
>> On Jun 29, 10:22 pm, Fred > wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> No, killing animals to eat them is not evidence of psychopathology.
>>> Why don't they show it on television? Why don't they give
>>> people tours of
>>> the abattoirs? Why do people prefer not to see that going on? It's not
>>> something that most of us want to think about whether we eat meat or
>>> not. Most people would rather go on eating their Big Macs and not
>>> think about
>>> where it came from or what had to be done to make it.
>>
>> Never bothered me. You see, I grew up on a farm and have seen animals
>> killed for food from early age on. I know precisely where my meat
>> comes from.
>
> I don't want to extrapolate too much from your case to all farm folks,
> but it does tend to contradict the usual vegetarian line. That line
> goes that if people could witness the slaughter of animals for meat, it
> would put them off meat for good and they'd all become vegetarian. But
> your experience, and the statistical experience of most rural residents,
> is exactly the opposite. People who grow up on or around farms are far
> more likely to have witnessed the slaughter of meat animals, yet the
> incidence of vegetarianism among them is lower than in the urban
> population. It clearly isn't the sight of seeing animals slaughtered
> /per/ /se/ that might permanently put someone off meat. Now, the
> /method/ by which a lot of commercially grown and slaughtered animals
> are actually slaughtered is apparently often horrific. But - it isn't
> the killing of animals /per/ /se/ that is offensive; it's how it's done
> that matters.

I question the veracity of reports of animal suffering in
the modern slaughterhouse. You know the old saying, if it
bleeds, it leads. I have never seen a report of anything I
had personal knowledge about come close to getting it right.
If you read independent audits like Temple Grandin's you get
a different picture.
http://www.grandin.com/survey/2008.r...nt.audits.html