The first thing that I noticed about the DVD “Meet Your Meat” (besides the fact that Alec Baldwin was the narrator) was the creator of the film: PETA. The images were shocking, the effects disturbing and lasting. Just as they were going for I’m sure. The People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) uses questionable ads and shocking comparisons between the meat-packing industry and the Holocaust and extermination of Jews in Europe to get the point across that vegetarianism is evidently where it’s at. After looking into PETA online, I found that there have been several cases of this organization taking pets from various animal shelters and euthanizing the animals by injecting them with something (I don’t know what), leaving them in dumpsters in a pile. They did this with the claim that it was done to be more humane than other methods like a gas chamber for the animals. Unfortunately, the video did not provide any possible ways to combat the meat-packing industry besides becoming a vegetarian. However, there are ways to a morally and ethically responsible carnivore and/or non-vegan vegetarian. It requires some research and depends on individual communities, but there are local dairy farms based nearby in Lynden providing dairy products from animals who aren’t pumped full of antibiotics and hormones. I felt the same way after reading the article “Hidden Cost of Cheap Chicken.” I wish the author’s encouraged research into farms that do not treat animals in the way they focused on. The responsibility obviously cannot be entrusted to the major meat-packing distributors in this country, so it has shifted to the consumer to become informed about what they are eating and to shop accordingly.
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The part of this blog that I agree with the most is the fact that I believe there should have been some other alternatives than just becoming a vegetarian. Personally I cannot picture myself becoming a vegetarian even after watching a video of gruesome treatment of animals. I do believe also that the video could have had more of an impact if it would of had different ways for individuals watching the video to make an impact.
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