[mountaineer1997]

Truth?

How about:

Animals on factory farms do not see the sun or get a breath of fresh air until they are prodded and crammed onto trucks for a nightmarish ride to the slaughterhouse, often through weather extremes and always without food or water. Many die during transport, and others are too sick or weak to walk off the truck after they reach the slaughterhouse. The animals who survive this hellish ordeal are hung upside-down and their throats are slit, often while they’re completely conscious. Many are still alive while they are skinned, hacked into pieces, or scalded in the de-feathering tanks. Learn more about the factory-farming industry. By switching to a vegetarian diet, you can save more than 100 animals a year from this misery.

If you are a meat eater, you sustain this cruelty with every greasy and fatty mouthful.

Enjoy!

Yes, I am politically quite conservative on most issues, and will vote for the same candidates as most Freepers. There really is not much of a difference in the parties regarding animal issues.

[RockinRight]

Animals on factory farms do not see the sun or get a breath of fresh air until they are prodded and crammed onto trucks for a nightmarish ride to the slaughterhouse, often through weather extremes and always without food or water.

Bull. I drive by farms all the time...the cows are OUT IN THE SUN.

[Rastus]

Yes, I am politically quite conservative on most issues,

But you're a raging leftist moonbat on this issue, and like all raging leftist moonbats, you don't let facts get in your way. And, this nonsense about Scarlett Johannsen. For every vegan actress you hold up, I can hold up a dozen just as hot who do eat meat. The more relevant question is, would Scarlett have sex with a meat eater? Based on her press, the answer would be: "Only if it's got a pulse."

[NeoCaveman]

If you are a meat eater, you sustain this cruelty with every greasy and fatty mouthful. Enjoy!

Mmmmm...greasy cruelty.

[jonascord]

And this breathless, melodramatic spurting of a standard industrial process is supposed to so horrify me that I will promptly scamper out the door and start to graze...

A vegan lifestyle is dependent on not actually having to perform the hard physical labor required to survive AND PROSPER in the natural world. Gorillas and other apes can survive as vegans since they are not required to constantly move quickly or develop any mental ability. They hide in heavy cover from any predators and slowly graze, and retain the IQ of a retarded two-year-old.

When man/apes moved out onto the grasslands, the vegan/apes who wouldn't eat meat quickly died out. The SMART ones ate everything, got even smarter, made fun of vegans and built computers...

[Scotsman will be Free]

HAHAHA! You know zip about farming. Not feeding or watering your critters results in weight loss which results in less money at the point of sale. Not taking care of your animals results in a sickly, poor weight gaining animal and a monetary loss at the point of sale. A well fed, healthy animal gets the farmer premium price at the point of sale. Cows that arrive dead at the slaughter house are a monetary loss for the farmer.
Cattle are placed in chutes, one at a time, and a steel piston is driven into their brains killing them instantly. Ever try skinning a critter while it’s still alive? Not going to happen as the animal will kick the crap out of you.
You are a typical PETA propagandist.

[DelphiUser]

Let's take this a sentence at a time, shall we?

Animals on factory farms do not see the sun or get a breath of fresh air until they are prodded and crammed onto trucks for a nightmarish ride to the slaughterhouse, often through weather extremes and always without food or water.

• Factory farms? No such thing, there are commercial farms, and privately owned farms, but all farms produce food.
• Farms are out doors because Buildings are expensive. (I grew up in Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois, where are you from?)
• Prodded? Maybe, crammed? Not unless you want to damage your goods, the meat packers will not pay as much for a damaged cow.
• Weather extremes... Not unless the farmer cannot reschedule, cold cuts down on his profits because the cows lose weight keeping warm, so this does not happen either.
• Without food or water, hmm, then the meat packer had better not be very far, because the Meat has to "Arrive Alive" to be worth anything.

With this first sentence more full of BS than info, i will let off a little on the rest of your post just because I tend to get verbose some times.

Many die during transport, and others are too sick or weak to walk off the truck after they reach the slaughterhouse.

No dead animal is processed into food for humans, that is what rendering plants are for and the farmer loses money big time on that.

IF they are sick or weak, rendering plant (dog food and glue), USDA won't let them slaughter them if they are sick.

The animals who survive this hellish ordeal are hung upside-down and their throats are slit, often while they’re completely conscious.

LOL This would take forever, first you kill them (so they don't fight you), then you hang them upside down and slit the jugular to get the blood out before it pools any hunter can tell you this, ask a few, you won't look so silly in the future.

Many are still alive while they are skinned, hacked into pieces, or scalded in the de-feathering tanks.

BZZZT! Wrong, this makes no sense, kill them quickly, adrenaline makes the meat bitter, a scared animal is a bad tasting animal.
Learn more about the factory-farming industry.

Take your own advice, worked for a Pig and Cattle farmer in High school, where does your info come from?

By switching to a vegetarian diet, you can save more than 100 animals a year from this misery.

LOL! IF everyone became vegetarian, we'd have to kill all the animals for garden space, think your proposals through will you?

If you are a meat eater, you sustain this cruelty with every greasy and fatty mouthful. If your mouthfuls are greasy and fatty, you are not doing it right!

Did you know that the consumption of fats and animal products is related to intelligence and brain size? How About B12, AKA The meat vitamin

I also looked at some Actuarial tables for Vegans Vs the Control group, you guys die sooner, just of different stuff, things we meant eaters don't get, enjoy your short life span now.

[Petronski]

If you are a meat eater, you sustain this cruelty...

Happy to do it!

...with every greasy and fatty mouthful.

That savory taste and mouth feel is the best part. Yum.

[pgkdan]

Animals on factory farms do not see the sun or get a breath of fresh air until they are prodded and crammed onto trucks for a nightmarish ride to the slaughterhouse, often through weather extremes and always without food or water. Many die during transport, and others are too sick or weak to walk off the truck after they reach the slaughterhouse. The animals who survive this hellish ordeal are hung upside-down and their throats are slit, often while they’re completely conscious. Many are still alive while they are skinned, hacked into pieces, or scalded in the de-feathering tanks. Learn more about the factory-farming industry. By switching to a vegetarian diet, you can save more than 100 animals a year from this misery.

LOL! You'll believe anything, won't you!!?!?! Now knock it off...you're making me hungry!

[psycho3lf]

“By switching to a vegetarian diet, you can save more than 100 animals a year from this misery.”

I am not too sure about that. How is that figure made? My guess is calculating the total amount of meat someone eats ina lifetime and using that figure.
But, just as when you cut back on your consumption of gas, total gas use is not cut by that amount, any less consumption on an individual level will not lead to an equal decrease in total consumption. This is due to prices. When I cut back on my gas usage, demand for gas will go down, prices in turn decrease because of less demand, lower prices entice people to consume more. The end result is somewhere in the middle.

Also, what do you make of this: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=grill

[rock58seg]

Sounds like you have never been further out of the “City” than an inner city park. Before you pontificate, perhaps some actual knowledge would prove helpful.

But carry-on if you will, it at least allows the rest of to know how much you don’t know.

[CodeToad]

“often through weather extremes and always without food or water. Many die during transport, and others are too sick or weak to walk off the truck after they reach the slaughterhouse.”

Total PETA propaganda. No rancher desires to loose so much as one animal as it means a loss of revenue. Also, ranching is under the regulations of the feds and state governments.