Other reasons to stop eating meat.?!
Other reasons to stop eating meat.?
When an animal is slaughtered for it's meat, are all the parts of it's body used? Does it's skin get sold to make leather handbags, shoes, jackets, etc.? Or does that leather come from animals that are raised for that specific purpose?
My boyfriend thinks that shearing wool off sheep is cruel. Is it? I don't want to seem naive, but I kinda thought the sheep enjoyed it (not the act of being sheared, but afterwards, having been shorn. It seems cooler, and less parasites?).
I'm curious because I've been reading books about becoming vegetarian, and so far, I haven't come across this topic.
2 months ago
I usually don't pay much creed to videos that are made for a cause, thinking that I'd like to see both sides of the coin.
But after watching that video about sheep, I am pledging myself off wool. That's horrendous. If the people who produce foie gras (i don't know how to spell it - goose liver) have to find a way to do it humanely, all other industries need to step it up!
Consumers NEED to know exactly how their money is being spent! If I knew I was supporting this BS when I shop at the mall, I would NEVER buy leather or wool.
By the way, I hate wool, it's itchy and smells funny when it rains.
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2 months ago
I usually don't pay much creed to videos that are made for a cause, thinking that I'd like to see both sides of the coin.
But after watching that video about sheep, I am pledging myself off wool. That's horrendous. If the people who produce foie gras (i don't know how to spell it - goose liver) have to find a way to do it humanely, all other industries need to step it up!
Consumers NEED to know exactly how their money is being spent! If I knew I was supporting this BS when I shop at the mall, I would NEVER buy leather or wool.
By the way, I hate wool, it's itchy and smells funny when it rains.
Sheep are abused and tortured and do not like what is being done not them.
How we get wool is another ideal that (unfortunately) people are still imagining the old ideals of "Farmer Joe" and his happy farm animals. Most U.S. wool comes from hideous factory conditions. Click the link if you would like to know
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/prefs.asp?...
And then click "watch it."
"the most commonly raised sheep are merinos, who are specifically bred to have wrinkled skin, which means more wool per animal. This unnatural overload of wool causes animals to die of heat exhaustion during hot months, and the wrinkles also collect urine and moisture. Attracted to the moisture, flies lay eggs in the folds of skin, and the hatched maggots can eat the sheep alive. In order to prevent this condition, called “flystrike,” Australian ranchers perform a barbaric operation―mulesing―by carving huge strips of skin and flesh off the backs of unanesthetized lambs’ legs and around their tails."
Regardless of whether leather comes from or does not come from meat cows, how those cows live, are tortured and die is simply deplorable.
I am a vegetarian and I do not wear animals.
:)
EDIT- While I certainly agree that things must be looked at from multiple sides, even if only 2% of sheep are being treated that way (instead of 50-75%), that is enough suffering to make me not want to be a part of it. And the cattle industry is far worse.
Even if you look at numbers of animals used for skins or flesh alone, the mind can start to wrap itself around the factory conditions required for such an industry.
The cutting apart of animals for "resources" is a business, and as with all businesses, it is all about the bottom (financial) line. These industries have no room for compassion. From history alone we know what businesses are willing to do to people when there are no laws protecting those people, so of course they are willing to be so much worse to animals who have no one to protect them.
Eeegads, now I'm bummed.
Sorry.
:)
I am not really sure about what you asked specifically...but I thought I would tell you that going vegetarian is also good for the environment!
If you go to a site like PETA has, they will send you a vegetarian starter kit which is helpful, and if you visit any envrionmental site they will probably help explain HOW it saves the environment.
Make sure you also speak with a doctor if you decide to go vegetarian. You NEED to in order to do it right.
They use parts of animals in soap, perfume etc etc.
Sheep are sheared and although they don't enjoy the process, it's like getting a haircut - the wool grows back the next year.
I gave up eating meat when I was eating lunch one day (a burger) and my cat was watching - I realised I was eating a creature with the same sensibilities - that was it for me - I don't eat anything that had a mother.
Becoming vegetarian is a personal decision - don't let others influence you.
the ear piercing shrieks
It does NOT hurt the sheep to have wool removed .. but it will not protect them from the cold if it is done in winter .. but in summer they will do better without it ..
And .. abt the meat and skin etc.. yes, all the parts of the animals are used... skin is used for leather .. bones and skin for making gelatin .. even the intestines are used as delicacies in some countries...
Fats are used for making Glycerine and soaps...
All of the animal is used with beef and no, it does not hurt a sheep to have it's wool taken off. It is better for the animal and is done in the spring/summer time so it makes the animal feel better. Personally, there is nothing on earth that would make me stop eating my meat. I don't eat a lot of it, but I like what I do have. Hope this helps!!!
>>My boyfriend thinks that shearing wool off sheep is cruel. Is it?<<
Shaving the sheep is probably not painful, but there is more to that idea. Look at it this way: Sheep are farm animals.Farm animals are kept so that they can be used for meat, clothes and some for work. They all eventually end up on the plate.
It is impossible to use ANY animal product, whether it is meat for food, leather or wool for clothes, without supporting the meat industry, suffering and death of these animals. Because that is what happens to them.
So this is not just a question of whether it is painful for the sheep, but also is it ethical to support farming of animals, when you know very well why they're kept in the first place.
I believe that all animals should be free living outside in nature rather than in human made constructions. We are animals too and as you may know freedom is a necessity for all of us to function normally. A bear is not happy in the zoo, as it would be in a forest. A fish is not happy in a fish tank because it belongs in the ocean.
Nature didnt intend them for our entertainment. Why would it be any different with the sheep, cows, pigs, goats etc?
Do you think they are happier living in the darkness of a slaughterhouse or living behind the fence than they would be free under the sun?
If we buy any product taken from these animals we are supporting the whole cruel machinery.
http://factoryfarming.com/
everything you want to know is here.
All the non-food parts not used for other purposes are "rendered" so that means they are boiled down into various liquids and then used for things like lubricants, cosmetics, glue, etc.. This includes cats and dogs from the animal shelter.