Posted on 05/26/2010 3:09:05 AM PDT by ResistorSister
Edited on 05/26/2010 4:35:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Your “fervent wish” was to bring up the issue of abortion, and you did, despite the fact that abortion has nothing to do with this thread. Stop giving me BS for pointing it out.
I was raised on a farm. My dad worked part time at a sale,
he would home just heart sick at the way men beat new born calves.
I can not watch these beast hurting these poor animals. The day will come when they stand before God,then they will pay for what they did. This breaks my heart.
Why do they beat the new born calves?
Which is exactly why your reaction is so over the top.
It's fairly simple, really. Animal rights activists want to prevent anyone from having any contact with animals. So, as part of their attempted emotional manipulation of people to get them to "accept" that any human contact with animals is unspeakably cruel and must be stopped, they have to demonstrate to people the horrible abuse. Since that level of abuse is extremely rare, especially in professions where animal health is crucial to success, they have to infiltrate those businesses, wait until everyone else is gone, and then abuse the animals (or pay someone to abuse them) while they film. They then have all kinds of "evidence" of animal abuse occurring in whatever industry they target, whether it's farms or laboratories.
It's not much of a conspiracy, really. It's not like getting a job on a farm, at a slaughterhouse, or in a research institution is incredibly hard. It's not. In labs, at least, it isn't unusual for people to be working outside of normal business hours, so the opportunities are there for the activists to be the only ones present.
It does matter. He’s either just plain a sadistic beast, or he’s sadistic beast who is a paid dupe of the revolutionary left, or he’s a sadistic beast who is a consious agent of a revolutionary conspiracy. The distinctions matter. However, I quite agree on one point...he’s a sadistic beast no matter which way you slice it!
The thing that makes me doubt that is the size of the guy in the video. Unless he's a 'new convert' or one who agrees in theory but not practice, he is not emaciated enough to be a vegan.
Just sayin.
LOL
Mercy for Animals has a vested interest in making this sort of a video . . . it does not necessarily follow that the video is fabricated, or that the actors on the video share that vested interest.
Just sayin.
According to the article posted in reply 167, radical leftist groups do pay people to do these things and have been implicated in such schemes in the past. I've also seen some very heavy vegetarians--I think that some of them, since they don't get enough nutrients, try to compensate by eating more (not purposely, of course).
Either way, that this is a genuine case of abuse that the animal rights activists just happened to catch on video is highly doubtful.
Mercy for Animals has a vested interest in making this sort of a video . . . it does not necessarily follow that the video is fabricated, or that the actors on the video share that vested interest.
I'm sorry, but I don't get how you came up with "if A can happen, then B cannot." Unless that's how you're classifying my assertion that the video was staged as a declaration that real animal abuse never happens. I didn't say that. There are enough news articles on real cases of animal abuse to know that it is real.
We know that leftists have a long history of pretending they are members of conservative groups, so that they can display the outrageous behavior they always accuse us of, thereby "proving" that we act that way.
To believe the video is genuine, we'd have to believe that an animal rights activist actually desired a farm job (which they would normally avoid like vampires avoid sunlight), and then witnessed abuse and decided to go public with it (instead of going to the boss or calling authorities), and that the abusers didn't notice that someone was following them around with a camera. It's highly unlikely.
Some people on this thread are making the argument that the video is ungenuine because* Mercy for Animals took it. That is a serious breakdown of logic.
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*Specifically:
Some animal rights groups fabricate evidence,
therefore this evidence is fabricated.
Some people on this thread are making the argument that the video is ungenuine because* Mercy for Animals took it. That is a serious breakdown of logic.
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*Specifically:
Some animal rights groups fabricate evidence,
therefore this evidence is fabricated.
I read the article and the entire thread.
1) The video is genuine (i.e. it wasn't Photoshopped).
2) The abuse is genuine. (Either the guy was paid to commit the abuse, or did it voluntarily because he's a true believer who will do anything for the cause.)
3) It was "undercover" in the sense that ONLY the animal rights activist and abuser were present at the time it was taken. It had to be done without being detected by any of the actual farm workers or management.
Do you actually think someone discovered abusing animals would let someone follow them around with a camera? Don't you think that someone genuinely stumbling on a situation like that would have a little concern for their own safety? They can't be that concerned if they're following the guy around with a camera!
I think I am going to puke with anger. How can anyone do that to an animal? This isn’t like they were killing the cow for food, this was unnecessary cruelty.
Sadly, I've known people in my life who were this sadistic and sick. I am not going to repeat the stories here of what they did but I can guarantee they would piss everyone off.
I first thought how bad can it be??...then I started to watch it...sorry, after a bit I had to turn it off. ~sadness fills me.
UPDATE ALL,
the bast*ards in jail
let’s pray he’s never allowed around animals again - He shouldn’t be allowed around anything living.
” charged with 12 counts of animal cruelty yesterday, “
http://www.newser.com/story/90245/horrific-video-lands-farm-worker-in-jail.html
My local dairy, 'The Minerva Cheese Factory' purchased 100% of the Conklin Dairy Farms' milk; however, they have now stopped doing business with Conklin because of the revelations in the video. Minerva Dairy didn't sell the milk, they used it to make cheese and butter.
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