Posted on 11/19/2011 9:42:50 PM PST by MplsSteve
McDonald's Corp. and Target said Friday that they had booted a Minnesota-based egg supplier in the wake of an undercover video documenting alleged animal abuse.
The hidden-camera video was shot by the Chicago animal rights group Mercy for Animals at facilities of Sparboe Farms, the nation's fifth-largest egg producer. Taken in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado, the video portrays crowded cages common in the egg industry, but also shows one worker swinging a chicken by a rope or chain and another stuffing a hen in a co-worker's pants pocket.
Sparboe was also cited this week by federal food regulators for serious violations of salmonella prevention rules, including unsatisfactory rodent control.
After the video came to light, McDonald's told its U.S. egg supply chain manager, Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc., that it would no longer accept Sparboe eggs.
Cargill said in a news release that it, too, was "disturbed" by the images in the video and has suspended Sparboe as a supplier.
Late Friday, Target confirmed that it had not only dumped Sparboe as a supplier, but was also pulling Sparboe eggs off the shelves at Super Target stores nationwide.
"Having been made aware of the unacceptable conditions in the company's egg laying facilities, effective immediately, Target will discontinue its business relationship with Sparboe Farms," the Minnesota-based retailer said in a press release. "We are currently in the process of notifying our stores to remove the product from our shelves."
The alleged abuse didn't occur at the Iowa Sparboe facility that directly supplies McDonald's, but McDonald's sustainability director Bob Langert said in a news release that "the behavior on tape is disturbing and highly unacceptable."
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“Some can be led to the truth.. Some create their own truth. Your statement on animals has no basis in scripture.”
Among the plain and simple to read and understand, the resurrected Christ ate an animal, certainly it wasn’t because He was subject to the fall.
“I agreed with you and was referring to your nemesis.”
I think ontap may have been seconding what you said, reiterating that RegulatorCountry was the one making the personal attack. But I could be wrong.
If so, I apologize.
Ben's an indoor/outdoor bun. Right now he's outside on the deck sunning himself. But he can't live outside--we're in black bear country and rabbit hutches are easy pickins for hungry bears.
He has free reign of about 60% of our house. He's litter box trained, and has his daily routine. He's a very smart bun. I couldn't eat Ben no matter how hungry I got.
“...eating meat, it is not prohibited in the bible!!”
And a hearty AMEN on this fine Sunday morning!
But, for the benefit of those willing and able to learn, let's turn first to Romans 8:19-22, shall we?
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
From this starting point with the Apostle Paul, one gains the understanding that animals did not sin, but were subjected to pain, suffering and death through no fault of their own due to the actions of man. Furthermore, one gains the understanding that animals will themselves be delivered from corruption, ie sin and death.
Furthermore, even a casual student of the Bible should be familiar with the Edenic existence present prior to the fall of man. Animals were not food and they were not clothing. Man was not aware and therefore not ashamed of his nakedness.
So, before we ever even get out of the book of Genesis, we learn that animals were not put on this earth for food or clothing, the statement of mine that appears to have led to controversy, for some odd reason.
Would anyone care to continue? It's acceptable and permissible to eat meat and has been since the days of Noah. With this I have no problem, I eat meat myself. But, I do not knowingly patronize anyone who is cruel to their animals. The righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, while the mercies of the wicked are cruel.
As was stated upthread, they're already giving their lives for our sustenance. Don't torment animals, be merciful. That's the Biblical way for those who care to learn and understand.
I have never lived in bear country, but my parents do. My dad thinks a black bear got one of his dogs a few years back. We deal with the deer and such in these parts, but thankfully, there are no major predators here (but some greenies are trying to get wolves introduced for us to deal with!).
“I couldn’t eat Ben no matter how hungry I got.”
I understand, that’s why my dad told me to never name anything that wasn’t a pet. Ironically, I still name my favorites in the group. :-)
Oh? How so?
Now, that's a real gem, a keeper if I've ever seen one.
That’s funny, I don’t recall ever having an exchange with you on any topic in the past. I actually agree with your original reply to this thread, which is in complete accord with what I posted.
Are you doctrinally confused yourself?
My wife and I went nuts for a while being a foster home for guinea pigs. We love the little critters, and so we wanted to try to help. We did help some. We took care of them until they were adopted.
But the truth is, the world is pretty mean, and you just can't help them all. They are at our mercy--I pity them for that. To many, they are mere commodities. To me, they are sentient beings. And some of them I consider my friends. Not just individuals--whole species. But that's just me.
What sort of flying backflip of logic makes this a negation of anything I've written on this thread? Animals were permitted for food by God after the flood, correct? Unclean foods were made clean by the death and resurrection of Christ.
Will we be eating animals in Heaven, JDW? The answer is clearly no. No pain, no suffering, no death in all God's holy mountain. That's how it was and how it will be.
“To me, it’s plain to see that animals have a lot more going on “inside” them than a lot of people think.”
I agree. I never gave it much thought when I was younger, but as I get older, I think that animals do often have a lot going on inside. I’m not a “dog person” (like them, but allergic), but they definitely know when you need something. Or I hear the stories of dolphins saving people from drowning. I remember that I had a black lab (my sisters, actually) as a kid, and we had a pool. If we swam in the pool and went under water, she would literally dive into the pool and search for us, diving a foot or two below the surface and try and grab our neck. Maybe it wa sinstincct, maybe it wasn’t, but she really seemed to panic if she thought we were in trouble.
I heard a story that I thought was neat, about a newly born dolphin, years back (I think I read it). That there was a man at an underwater aquarium who was smoking a cigar and blew out a puff of smoke. Reportedly, the baby dolphin went and got a mouth of milk and blew it out mimicing the man. That’s an intelligent animal, if the story was true. Animals are truly amazing to me.
I’m not going to take the time to respond to each comment you made, but I will to this:
“Will we be eating animals in Heaven, JDW?”
No, I suspect that we won’t eat anything. But that doesn’t mean that as part of God’s plan for our mortal lives that He didn’t give us animals for meat and for raiment. He did, among other things like companionship, and to be used as beasts of burden. We are given dominion over the entire Earth and the fulness thereof, and we are responsible for how we exercise that dominion. We will be held accountable for how we dispatch that duty, but not only is there nothing wrong with eating meat or making use of animals, but it has at times been necessary. To say that the things on the earth are not ordained (or given, if you will) for the use of man, is false doctrine, and I’m not going to debate it further. May you have a blessed day!
Even guinea pigs, who are not the most complex little beasts in the world, have individuality. I've never met two who behaved exactly the same. They all had their own little quirks of temperment, communication, dietary tastes, etc.
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all of the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, now I give you everything. - Genesis 9:1-3
Then, pay a visit to the prohecies of Isaiah, particularly Isaiah 11:6-9.
Apologies accepted in advance. Thank you, and have a blessed day as well.
And no one on this thread has even remotely insinuated they were in favor of cruelty to animals.
You can comprehend what you read? Good, return to my responses to you, read the Biblical passages cited in support and apologize.
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