Buying meat - what do you think?

I agree - bad idea.

not because I think it's "bad" to admit that we're eating dead animals but because....

if lobby groups push to get that approved then they'd better be prepared to do it ACROSS THE BOARD. Even for issues that don't appeal to them.

Which means your tooth paste, mouth wash, medications... ALL will have dead cows next to them. Why? Um dead cows go into making them. Yeah.

And don't forget the abortion clinics. they'll have to post pictures of dead babies too.

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because sometimes you get it

I chose bad idea just because it would never happen.

I have no problem eating meat, but I'd like to start getting organic meat where I know how they treat their animals.

I don't even want to think about how they stuff chickens with so many drugs and antibiotics that they get so big and their legs break. Not to mention the scalding
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I'm going to be perfectly frank and honest here.

As a human, I know it is natural and normal to be omnivorous. As such, I regularly consume meat products, and enjoy doing so.

Many people talk about people like me not knowing how the business works, and believe that we would cease consumption if we did. Au contraire. I read my ingredients, and ones that I do not recognize will get a research treatment. I know about the process of raising livestock (both the more 'industrial' styles and the more 'free range' styles). Gelatin? Ground bone, essentially. I'm fine with that, why waste the bone anyway?

The fact of the matter is this: life is not sunshine and flowers. If you eat meat, you know that you are eating the flesh of an animal, and in most cases, these animals were born on farms, their purposes (the reason that they exist in the first place, having been born to previous domestic livestock) to provide us with food. Many people see this as unfair. I, however, accept it.

Perhaps the ideal shared by those that shun meat is that we, as humans, are special and, since we have the capacity to consume only vegetable matter and survive (although we need some source of B12, which is almost completely obtained through consumption of animal matter) on it. A noble aspiration, but one I do not share.

We naturally evolved to be predatory creatures. Such predator behavior is frequently observed in chimpanzees on their 'monkey hunts'. And I, for one, and comfortable with this.

This is my simple, unbiased opinion. To me, putting up pictures of the process next to the meat would do next to nothing for me. Perhaps it would be interesting to see the progression of techniques over time as I come back to shop, as disgusting as some of you may find that.

Death is not pretty, and I agree on that. However, other naturally predatory animals are admonished of their guilt for killing and consuming animals, even if they can also eat plant matter. As such, I also admonish humans of this guilt.

Good idea but human nature being what it is, it wouldn't have a positive impact. Stick that cute piggie on a poster and say it's for a film about a talking pig, people will lap it up. But show them the picture as a demonstration of the creature that has lost its life so they can have sausages, they won't go for that.

People don't want to be told that they are doing wrong, even when they know they are. It'd be better to put the piglet on a pack of meat substitute with the slogan "Be a great person. Buy these and save this little fellow's life."

Not exactly opposed to it. Ultimately I am a carnivore and will eat meat, regardless. Sure, I could take protein vitamins, iron vitamins and what not, but honestly? If it wasn't for meat, I'd probably struggle constantly to maintain a healthy weight due to my overactive thyroid. I know that there are alternative ways to keep my weight up, but they require quite a bit of eating on my part, something I can't afford to do, fiscally and time-wise as well.

But maybe seeing the pictures would encourage me to put the meat to better use or help me be more willing to try alternative methods of keeping my weight in check. Either way, I lived in the South, in an area where people hunted for and killed their own food. Wouldn't be a big shocker to me.

That would be upsetting to people who aren't buying the meat too, though.

Why don't they put pics of ugly women on whiskey bottles then? Hey warning, you might sleep with this.

How did you got a pic in it?

I hit Good idea, because If they see some pic of animals what they gonna eat, maybe they would remind them that they was sacrificed themselve for your satisfaction.

You have some excellent points (I was especially intrigued by your comparison about the cigarette packages). Reading your comments, I can definitely understand where you are coming from, but honestly, I think it seems a bit vulgar to display the process like you are suggesting.

I would be fine with a picture of a little piggy on the side of a pack of bacon, but seeing the pig being slaughtered is just a whole different matter all together to me. It is just too explicit. I would still eat meat regardless, but I just don't necessarily see this as a very realistic manner of 'educating the ignorant.' It almost seems hateful to force people to view such things, when the process is really just a necessary procedure that has to be done. People are going to eat meat, and putting an explicit picture of the animal getting slaughtered isn't going to stop or deter them I don't think.

Another point to consider would be children. Would you expose your child to such images at a very young age where they are just beginning to understand certain concepts of life? It could potentially have very traumatizing effects on the mind of a young child if they aren't quite ready to learn such things.

My final opinion is no, I do not completely think it is a good idea.

I definitely agree that far too many people are becoming less and less educated in where the food we eat comes from. I'm not so sure that people should be forced to know how exactly meat products are processed and how the animals were slaughtered, but for sure they should have to know at least what animal and maybe even what part of the animal the meat/product comes from.
It's amazing how many people think that milk comes from a factory, and have no clue that it has anything to do with cows.
I have slaughtered animals myself, and I'm fairly certain that with the way society is now it wouldn't take much to turn a lot of people off meat. Now this isn't because it's inhumane pratices or anything but some people may just find the process downright nasty.
Connect the food in the grocery store to the animals on the farm, but do it in a way that doesn't rub people the wrong way.

em... It wouldn't affect me at all but its like having to see people infected with cholera just so i know what will happen to me if i don't wash my hand? Or what happened with smokes packs, ye... that stopped me from smoking... not.

Wouldn't it be better to just force companies to provide more detailed information of their products? A photo of a dead pig doesn't tell actually anything about the process. Or do you think there should be hundreds of photos next to every product in every shop?

Or do you just want to see dead animals?

I chose bad idea simply because it sounds fucking stupid. People who love eating meat will just continue eating meat no matter what. And also food corporations would never put the on their products because it would deter sales and scare off some consumers.

I think they should show pictures of which young boy wanked into the milk or the puddings before they went on sale lolz

What exactly would be the point of doing this? If a person doesn't realise what they are buying then it's their own fucking problem.

AHH!,Just shut up and get drunk,then EAT already!

What would it accomplish? It seems like the idea of putting pictures of dead animals next to where they're sold is an idea born from the mentality that every last person out there thinks like you do - the animals are victims of abuse that we exploit to feed ourselves.

Whether or not that's true, you might consider a grasp of the situation that involves sociology and anthropology as well. The vast majority of people out there are simply looking for food. It doesn't matter if it's moralistic or not to butcher farm animals. This isn't about insensitivity, it's about realism.

Does a Marine who faces death every day need to come back home and see bloody flesh and horrific wounds? Do your kids' teachers need to "behold the horrible reality" in order to educate? What makes you so certain that a visual cue is what the majority of people will react to in order to "see your side of the coin"?

Sure, go ahead and be incensed at the treatment of animals we eat. I agree with you - it's terrible, and should change. Throwing pictures in people's faces just might not be as effective as you think. Does a tea-bagger aggressively lecturing you about their policies cause you to simply start supporting them? Does someone shouting "God hates fags!" cause you to rethink your views of both religion and homosexuality?

There are ways to influence and make a change for the better. Shocking, abrasive, and intrusive methods (such as forcing people to view disturbing images during shopping) are not, in my opinion, an effective way to do it.

Bad idea. Like people say, it deters sales and makes people feel more guilty when in reality we eat meat. It's human nature and vegetarians wouldn't be vegetarians if they didn't think and actually just ate.

I steal all my meat, so this doesn't affect me one whit.

Actually its a rather stupid idea as those animals that you are going to be showing in the supermarket or on the sides of the meat packages were bred, born, and raised to be feed animals. They werent some endangered species that humanity wiped off the planet in its own greed and self superiority.

Good idea.

Annoys me how we call it, 'Pork' 'Bacon' 'Beef' 'Poultry'

Maybe it will make people think

Some meat does already have pictures of cartoon animals on it because some retards don't know that a london broil is beef.

I wish I could afford to buy organic (at a real All- organic food market, not supermarkets)food, instead of the garbage in our own supermarkets. In the same token, I wish I didn't have to buy at Wal-Mart. everywhere else would break me.

Id say my only argument against doing this would be it seems like a lot of effort with not that much gain.. Arent there more important things to spend money on than putting pictures of things people already know but forget on the packaging?

People who buy meat already know it comes from animals. A picture of a cow on a package of hamburger for example would stop a lot of people from buying and eating it. Is that your intention?

You mostly seem concerned about how detached we are from the process of making it. But frankly, if some people knew exactly what happened, they wouldn't eat it.

In our world today, everyone doesn't have to know or watch the process that our food goes through. There are people who get paid to do it. Leave it up to them!

Are you kidding, I dont want to know where my meat comes from!

Eh I don't understand the point. Might as well put a picture of everything on every product, good or bad. A pic of an 8 years working on making nike shoes in a factory as well as the smiling faces in cookie factory. (at least I would be smiling) And what about carrots? Just ripped out of the ground like that. My god that's cruel.