Farm Animals

BR asked:


Most animal rights groups are very bad at getting attention from the general public. A spokesperson from PETA is quoted as saying “If animal research led to a cure for AIDS…we’d be against it.” They are also known for firebombing medical research labs. United Poultry Concerns is an organization that I respect for their research and progress on treatment of poultry, but they make themselves look bad. Karen Davis is known by the public as “a total nut job”, allowing chickens to run through her house (some of which she stole from farms). Protesters are known to “leave a giant inflatable duck on [a poultry farmer's] lawn with a can of corn next to it” As much as I support better treatment of factory farm animals, it seems like they are more concerned with converting the whole country to vegitarianism than pushing for some more realistic results like federal regulation. When they do anything like what I described above, they look insane and nobody takes them seriously.
Are there any organizations that don’t fund firebombing labs or is run by complete lunitics?

I just want to see farm animals treated better, not people pushing for an impossible result of getting everyone in the country to give up eating meat. How about regulation or some other realistic result like that?
“tax payers dollars to fluff up a cow” I don’t really care about cows as a meat animal, because they are perfect for those purposes. If any animal has to die for food the cow is the best candidate. They are cheap to raise, generate a lot of food per life and are as dumb as posts. (No one can disagree on that, I know how dumb a cow is, there’s been research on that.)

Mainly my concern is for pigs and poultry. They are amoung the most intelligent and poultry is probably the most poorly treated farm animal. While I don’t think we should “fluff up” a chicken, we shouldn’t deny them their basic needs and perform painful surgeries on them (ex. debeaking.) and they barely fit in the crates they spend their entire lives in. There should be federal regulation to discourage farmers from using these processes.
L.O.T.A, while I agree with you on the top paragraph, I don’t thing vegitarians are out to not kill anything, rather to not have anything feel pain (or health reasons, love of animals, etc; please don’t argue with me on that on the next posts).

Also my “cows are as dumb as posts” bit is going to make people angry so, It’s not that I don’t care about them, but they are amoung the least intelligent but best treated of all farm animals. They are also not known to be in a state of distress prior to slaughter. Pigs and chickens, however, are known to panic prior to slaughter.

Put in your opinions about all of the above points too, whether or not your a vegitarian.

Clyde