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I’ve just seen something that has left me feeling very upset and shaky

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Whitewavemark2 Thu 24-Jun-21 14:07:14

Just trolling through twitter when a video popped up showing animals being killed - I didn’t stop to investigate further, but presumably for eating.

But it was dreadful. I eat meat so perhaps do not have any entitlement not to be protected from the reality.

Bit my goodness I can’t get it out of my mind.

vegansrock Mon 28-Jun-21 07:42:23

There are many different points here discussed - casual animal cruelty should be minimised
Some don’t want to witness animal cruelty, although some people obviously do.
Avoiding / reducing meat eating is one small way of reducing animal cruelty and climate change
Industrial farming of animals involves cruelty - plenty of horrible video evidence of that
Vegan bashing has surfaced as soon as non meat eating is mentioned
I haven’t bashed anyone who eats meat - some of my close family and friends eat meat - it’s their choice, and I understand why they make that choice, but I think people should be aware of how meat is produced - it isn’t just a plastic tray in a supermarket, but a living creature has to die to provide their body to be eaten.
A vegan diet can be healthy or unhealthy same as meat eating diet can be healthy or unhealthy,
All different discussion points which have somehow become entwined.
I witnessed animal cruelty as a small child, haven’t eaten meat since and clearly remember the incident.

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 10:31:09

The supermarket bosses seem more concerned about reducing the plastic than the animal a part of whose body is in it.

ElderlyPerson Mon 28-Jun-21 10:37:55

By the way, the new strawless packs of Alpro chocolate shake and Alpro strawberry shake have tamper-evident plastic screw cap tops.

But wait, amazingly the plastic is made from sugar cane, not fossil fuel and is recyclable. Wow, how about that!

Yorki Mon 28-Jun-21 11:59:08

Well said PinkQuartz. ?

Cymres1 Tue 29-Jun-21 17:47:36

Completely agree. Very well put.