If Slaughterhouses had Glass Walls...

...everyone would be a vegetarian.

WARNING! Graphic animal slaughter AND torture video.

Narrated by Sir Paul McCartney

PETA

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It really is soo sad what they do to these animals.

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So tragic, but it needs to be watched so that people know where their food is coming from.

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I have to tell you I am super duper close to going Vegan.. My only problem is I like fish. I can give up cheese, dairy & eggs.. but the sushi..
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I will be sobbing if i watch this.

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That was hard to watch. What I especially don't understand is how unnecessarily cruel and mean the workers are to these animals. Stomping on their heads, bashing them on the floor........that is so sick.

I can't say I will give up meat, mainly because I like so few veggies and I am soooo picky, but if nothing else, I will start to think twice about where the meat I buy is coming from. Poor animals, I do feel so bad for how they are treated. I don't know why people have to be so inhumane throughout that process.

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The guy I work with is a health teacher and they are watching Food Inc. I asked the huge meat eater if it makes him think twice about eating meat because I haven't seen it yet and he said what it makes him do is buy Organic only. I know if I watch it I will go Vegetarian. I hate the abuse.

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That was hard to watch. What I especially don't understand is how unnecessarily cruel and mean the workers are to these animals. Stomping on their heads, bashing them on the floor........that is so sick.

I can't say I will give up meat, mainly because I like so few veggies and I am soooo picky, but if nothing else, I will start to think twice about where the meat I buy is coming from. Poor animals, I do feel so bad for how they are treated. I don't know why people have to be so inhumane throughout that process.

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I remember the first time I saw this. I don't watch many of these kinds of videos; watching them was THE reason why I went veg about 20 years ago. My interest was piqued because of Paul McCartney's involvement in the documentary. I can't watch it again...I'll end up making myself sick if I do. The title of it is so incredibly true, though. The content is yet another reason why we should ask questions about where our food supply comes from.

I understand that people want to eat meat...and there are more humane ways about getting it. In my ideal world, yeah, everyone would be a vegetarian. But thats not going to happen. However, if this video makes even a few people review their consumption of meat and where they purchase it from, and they maybe switch to buying from a local farmer who allows their cows, or pigs, or chickens to live a decent life, outdoors and whatnot....then its a success in my eyes. Because while I don't want to see any animal be killed, I know that its going to happen, and allowing them to live a viable, meaningful life for years before they are killed for meat is just so much more dignified and respectful and loving and conscious than anything that goes on in the disgusting, horrific meat industry.

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That was hard to watch. What I especially don't understand is how unnecessarily cruel and mean the workers are to these animals. Stomping on their heads, bashing them on the floor........that is so sick.

I can't say I will give up meat, mainly because I like so few veggies and I am soooo picky, but if nothing else, I will start to think twice about where the meat I buy is coming from. Poor animals, I do feel so bad for how they are treated. I don't know why people have to be so inhumane throughout that process.

they are some sick bastards working in these places

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Things like this truly make me question humanity. Many of us eat meat - that's no secret. But to unnecessarily TORTURE other living things, and prolong the killing/dying process? How can anyone with a conscience do things like this? Humans are so evil sometimes, it's horrifying.

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That was hard to watch. What I especially don't understand is how unnecessarily cruel and mean the workers are to these animals. Stomping on their heads, bashing them on the floor........that is so sick.

I can't say I will give up meat, mainly because I like so few veggies and I am soooo picky, but if nothing else, I will start to think twice about where the meat I buy is coming from. Poor animals, I do feel so bad for how they are treated. I don't know why people have to be so inhumane throughout that process.

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As a McCartney fan (life time fan) I am curious but also know his (and his late wife's) support of being a Vegan. No way I could watch that video. Even for Paul.

I am a meat eater. Do I wish we had better sources for it? Yes.

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I eat meat and I am fully aware of where it comes from and I accept that. I'm not watching the video, but I will say that I just had a conversation last weekend with a girlfriend who is a Pollution Officer with the Environment Agency and she has raved to me about the cleanliness and humane practices of some local abbatoirs and how impressed she was with what she was seeing and how she was happy to be eating meat from these places. Not all abbatoirs are the same.

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That is why I've been a vegetarian for 20 years.

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I am not vegan or vegetarian however I am a huge believer in knowing where my food comes from.
I became so fascinated with it about 6 years ago I decided to create a more sustainable life. I have a small flock of egg laying chickens, I had a pretty large garden that produced all of the produce my family needed from may to September.
I also stopped buying grocery store meat and poultry at that time. I buy organic, all natural or kosher products or I buy shares from local farms.
I did not watch this particular video but I read tons of books and watched other videos on the topic. It's really disgraceful. Our government is so corrupt that these slaughterhouses have nothing to worry about. The big commercial poultry producers are flat out lying about no antibiotics/steroids in the chicken. They feed the chickens genetically altered corn and grain so the drugs are still there.

I personally do not believe on a scientific level that humans have evolved enough to be vegan, but I support people that have made that choice. I am just about knowing as much as possible where my food comes from.

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You should read Michael Pollan and Joel Salatin.

Joel Salatin owns Polyface Farms in Virginia, where the animals are raised "near" organic and humanely treated and slaughtered. If you are concerned with these videos, stop eating CAFO beef and go local and grass fed. Its better for you and the environment and certainly for the animal.

Polyface

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