I like eating chicken (rant alert)

What I don't like is the disturbing footage of what those chickens go through to get to me at a cheap price. I actually hate the word 'cheap'. I've seen the footage on TikTok and YouTube and it's really bad. They really suffer. They stew in their own poop and hardly have feathers. Their legs break, due to the how they are bred to make extra meat. That's all going on behind the scenes.

I think they should crank the price up for meat and let those animals live a good life before they are slaughtered.

The UK is supposed to be a first world country and shouldn't out source meat from cheap places that hurt animals.

I like meat and do not intend to be vegan. I'm fully aware that animals eat each other, so veganism is rather silly when you factor that.

I would like to see a law where the animals, bred for consumption are treated humanely, like actual living creatures.

If you can't afford humanely slaughtered meat, then eat vegetables.

Double the price of meat (hell, even triple it), but make sure the animals are treated well. No animal should suffer in a civilised society.

I know this has gone on for hundreds of years, but maybe it's time to stop it? It's 2026. 

Formo is a start up company that have found a way to make actual milk protein without subjecting cows to a life of torture. 

They don't have a voice. What's happening to them is on par with the holocaust concentration camps.

Kind of ironic as kosher animals suffer the same way.

This will probably be deleted, but it's not right that those animals have to suffer torture to reduce the price of their meat.

Meat should be a luxury if you can afford it. 

How can anyone justify the torture of animals to increase profits?

It annoys me. 275 million animals are used for scientific experiments every year. For what? So eyeliner isn't irritating?

I know this post is naive, but what an ugly practice.

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  • where the animals, bred for consumption are treated humanely

    As someone who's been vegan for over 25 years (and vegetarian before that), this phrase - for me - is oxymoronic / self-contradictory.

    I'm fully aware that animals eat each other, so veganism is rather silly when you factor that.

    Animals can't buy ethical, vegan alternatives, but we can Slight smile

    I know this post is naive

    I don't think that your upset or alarm are naive at all. This general line of thinking is what people can often go through before reaching a decision to become vegetarian or vegan.

    I shared a quote recently in another thread. Together with learning more about egg farming and the dairy industry, it helped in motivating me to switch from being vegetarian to vegan. The "needlessly" aspect, in particular, helped me to question and explore whether eating animal-derived products was necessary at all.

    "I would not enter on my list of friends
    (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
    Yet wanting sensibility) the man
    Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."

    From:

    English Verse - "Care for the Lowest", by William Cowper

      These days, it's possible to get everything we need without eating them, or what they produce.

  • Animals can be raised in a way that allows them to express their natural instincts and not be stressed. This is fairly obvious. That they often are not is the problem. 

    There is also a moral question, we have domesticated many animals, they can no longer survive without us. If we no longer have a use for them they will become extinct.

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  • Animals can be raised in a way that allows them to express their natural instincts and not be stressed. This is fairly obvious. That they often are not is the problem. 

    There is also a moral question, we have domesticated many animals, they can no longer survive without us. If we no longer have a use for them they will become extinct.

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