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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONF WITH PETA! THEY HAVE A POINT
Health harms are not the only costs McDonald's fails to internalize. There is an additional feature of its business that also brings harms which fail to touch (and therefore to "count" for) McDonald's. That feature is the suffering of animals kept in cruel and horrific conditions and then slaughtered on an assembly line, to produce McDonald's products.
McDonald's is reportedly one of the largest purchasers of factory farmed beef in the world. Factory farming, in turn, involves cruelty to animals on a scale that is historically unprecedented. As Matthew Scully put it in his eloquent, compelling, recent book, Dominion, "[n]o age has ever been more solicitous to animals, more curious and caring. Yet no age has ever inflicted upon animals such massive punishments with such complete disregard, as witness scenes to be found on any given day at any modern industrial farm." McDonald's is complicit in this disregard.
The factory farms at which most meat is produced are grotesque in their treatment of animals. Animals are kept in filthy enclosures in which they lack the space to lie down and the opportunity to interact with each other. They can only stare out at the people who pass, and chew on the cage wire until their mouths bleed. Though mammals and birds, including cattle, pigs, and chickens bred for slaughter and consumption at McDonald's, are social animals, they are not given opportunities to play with one another or root around in the grass - or, indeed, to do any of the things that farm animals on an old-fashioned farm do as a matter of course.
Then when it comes time to kill them, animals are put to death in view of their fellow creatures about to meet the same fate, screaming, bellowing, and fighting to the end. For many, there is no refuge from the misery and pain they endure from the moment of birth until a terrifying death, all for profit. As author Alice Walker described meat consumption in today's world, "You're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life."
Once again, of course, the consumer must take his share of responsibility. No one forces people to eat at McDonald's or to eat meat at all, for that matter. Fast food meats are neither necessary nor even conducive to human health and flourishing.
Nonetheless, once again, it is McDonald's that profits without paying the costs it inflicts. It can charge the low prices it does because it externalizes the costs of its business. The more deprived and cruel the animal's life, it seems, the cheaper the burger at the end. And animal welfare laws - most of which do not apply to "food animals" - do virtually nothing to intervene.
You know what? I don't care. You nuts think of animals as though they're capable of the same thoughts and emotions as people. I have news for you darlin: they don't. What next? Are you saying that your dog should be able to get a library card? A driver's license? Draw Social Security?
I don't like McDonald's because the food sucks.
What kills me is that you morons protest "factory farming" yet you also are the same bunch who's trying to take my guns away so I can't go kill my own food much more humanely.
Fuck the whole lot of ya. Take your tofu burgers and shove them up your ass.
Ooooh, I see, you added me because I joined the Animal Rights community? Probably to pick on Animal Rights Activists like PETA, right? Nothing wrong with that. But you've got the wrong girl. I'm a meat-eater to the core, always will be. I don't eat at McDonalds for health reasons and because they abuse people in other countries. Notice people, not animals.
I'm curious though, if I'm against puppy farms, and cruelty to animals (starving, neglecting them to the point where they develop tumors/ulcers, beating them), does that make me a 'pussy?'
Health harms are not the only costs McDonald's fails to internalize. There is an additional feature of its business that also brings harms which fail to touch (and therefore to "count" for) McDonald's. That feature is the suffering of animals kept in cruel and horrific conditions and then slaughtered on an assembly line, to produce McDonald's products.
McDonald's is reportedly one of the largest purchasers of factory farmed beef in the world. Factory farming, in turn, involves cruelty to animals on a scale that is historically unprecedented. As Matthew Scully put it in his eloquent, compelling, recent book, Dominion, "[n]o age has ever been more solicitous to animals, more curious and caring. Yet no age has ever inflicted upon animals such massive punishments with such complete disregard, as witness scenes to be found on any given day at any modern industrial farm." McDonald's is complicit in this disregard.
The factory farms at which most meat is produced are grotesque in their treatment of animals. Animals are kept in filthy enclosures in which they lack the space to lie down and the opportunity to interact with each other. They can only stare out at the people who pass, and chew on the cage wire until their mouths bleed. Though mammals and birds, including cattle, pigs, and chickens bred for slaughter and consumption at McDonald's, are social animals, they are not given opportunities to play with one another or root around in the grass - or, indeed, to do any of the things that farm animals on an old-fashioned farm do as a matter of course.
Then when it comes time to kill them, animals are put to death in view of their fellow creatures about to meet the same fate, screaming, bellowing, and fighting to the end. For many, there is no refuge from the misery and pain they endure from the moment of birth until a terrifying death, all for profit. As author Alice Walker described meat consumption in today's world, "You're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life."
Once again, of course, the consumer must take his share of responsibility. No one forces people to eat at McDonald's or to eat meat at all, for that matter. Fast food meats are neither necessary nor even conducive to human health and flourishing.
Nonetheless, once again, it is McDonald's that profits without paying the costs it inflicts. It can charge the low prices it does because it externalizes the costs of its business. The more deprived and cruel the animal's life, it seems, the cheaper the burger at the end. And animal welfare laws - most of which do not apply to "food animals" - do virtually nothing to intervene.
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I don't like McDonald's because the food sucks.
What kills me is that you morons protest "factory farming" yet you also are the same bunch who's trying to take my guns away so I can't go kill my own food much more humanely.
Fuck the whole lot of ya. Take your tofu burgers and shove them up your ass.
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I'm curious though, if I'm against puppy farms, and cruelty to animals (starving, neglecting them to the point where they develop tumors/ulcers, beating them), does that make me a 'pussy?'
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not all pussies are like that.
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