I love hamburgers and steak. I don't care how they are made.

Eat bark you stupid fucks. Knowing a little something about livestock I have to say... It's a fucking cow, pig, chicken, lamb, etc. We breed them so we can EAT them. If you do not like it, go fend for your self, please try to do so.

I love these people who "expose" this stuff. Where do they think their food comes from?

My chickens are free range but at the end of the day i still SLAUGHTER them. For those of you who do not like what you have seen, raise your own, fend for your self. See how long that lasts.

Chicken,

I trust you don't torture them before you eat them.

Sure, I have no problem with eating animals.

But we should not make their lives any more painful than necessary.

This video showed a serious lack of concern for the feelings (yes....they have feelings) of these creaures.

I just hate to think that when I eat a yummy burger, that the animal may have been torured first.

What is the purpose for making the death miserable for animals? Isn't it more cost efficient just to kill them?

Laws and sausages.

If I don't eat the beef, the poor cows died in vain.

And that's just cruelty to animals.

But good point, Andy,

Kill floors at packing plants suck. They are the most horrific places on the face of the earth. The hemoglobin in the blood sucks the oxygen up, and a lot of folks can pass out if not acclimated. They are designed and exist for the efficient mass slaughter of large mammals.

To one extent or another, I've spent my entire life in the beef production business and have never met a man that enjoyed being in that part of a packing plant.

That said, it's part of the reality of the world we live in.

There's an ungulate in the country that goes "moo".

There are millions of people, miles away in the city, that want to eat the ungulate that goes "moo".

There's a process required to raise, slaughter, package, and transport that ungulate to consumers because they demand a fresh, safe, and tasty product.

If you turn a microscope on certain aspects of that process, you're going to see things that disturb you. But I can also film a group of indigent Mexican villagers hacking a steer to death with machetes, and its no less disturbing.

We kill things to eat.

Get over it.

Angelina Jolie sits on the pot everyday and takes a big, stinking shit.

Why choose to dwell on it?

Jesus Fucking Christ.

This is a goddamn dairy farm, not a packing plant.

I should have watched the video first.

The "burning off of budding horns" is the simply act of cauterizing a de-horning wound so the fucker quits bleeding. It's not like that's a scandalous, secret practice.

Prolapses, while nasty and dramatic to look at, are a common occurrence, and can be sewed up quickly.

Its not a big deal..

If this doesn't make you swear off beef...nothing will!

What do a bunch of old Holsteins cows in a dairy barn have to do with beef?

The level of ignorance regarding agricultural practices is sad---if not tragic.

If you bitch about "lobbyists", this thread and the completely fabricated "abuse" it purports to expose is a perfect example of why we have to have lobbyists.

What a fucking joke.

Jak,

"This is a goddamn dairy farm, not a packing plant."

This is typical behavior?? Sorry to hear that.

I guess animals in meat packing plants are treated even worse?

Thanks for your insight.

What a terrible industry.