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Which brands of meat products are most known for animal cruelty?
I watched ѕοmе videos οf animal cruelty οח farms belonging tο brands Ɩіkе Hormel аחԁ Butterball. Mу family саח't afford tο ɡο vegan rіɡһt now (although wе wish tο іח tһе future) аחԁ ѕο I want tο аt Ɩеаѕt learn wһісһ brands tο avoid bесаυѕе tһеу allocate animal cruelty.
August 30th, 2009 - 11:23
Where I live meat is much more expensive than vegetarian foods (beans, veggies, sometimes fruit).
I know that doesn’t answer your question but I was just adage.
August 31st, 2009 - 14:36
why cant your family afford to go vegan now? in most of the world only the very rich eat meat. im from midwest USA a single person i spend about 100$ a month on food im vegan. i dont buy packaged vegetarian junkfood i eat real food i buy dried grains dried beans and fresh and frozen vegetables it costs very small.
September 1st, 2009 - 20:56
Can you afford organic meat from an organic deli? They don’t do any of those dreadful things to animals.
September 3rd, 2009 - 10:48
For starters, stay away from chicken. Chickens are the worst treated farm animal, even ones that are free range. It is rare to find chicken that has been treated fractionally humane.
September 5th, 2009 - 16:46
All I know is that chickens are the worst treated in the meat industry. If you don’t believe me, go to GoVeg.com and watch the videos.
I know how you feel, about the whole money thing.. I was kind of in that situation, but trust me – vegan/vegetarian food isn’t that expensive. Cross meats off your shopping list (which I can guarantee is certainly $25+) and just buy the veggies, fruits, soy milk, nuts, tofu, (which together is like, what, $20?) and you’ll be excellent.
Hope everything goes well.
xoxo
September 8th, 2009 - 00:04
Maybe you meant to say vegetarian (not killing animals to eat them) but vegan (no products from animals, period) is a huge leap from meat intake. You can certainly afford to be vegetarian if you can afford to buy meat. You might be thinking that apt a vegetarian means you have to buy all organic which can be very expensive and hard depending where you live, but no. Just go to your grocery store – at least half of it is doubtless vegetarian foods. If you have distress with finding excellent food to eat for cheap, tell us what your family likes to eat and maybe we can help you. You just have to find what you like to eat. Excellent luck to you and your family.
Also buying organic meat does not say that they don’t do terrible things to the animals – they still have to kill them to get their flesh! It only means they feed them organic products but farming beef for example is still a very inefficient way to make food (you have to grow food for them to eat so you can make meat from them).
September 11th, 2009 - 00:15
It is really cheaper to live on a vegan diet than on a meat based diet.
You don’t have to eat organic to be vegan!
Try stock up on whole grains (oatmeal, brown rice, wheat pasta and high fiber cereal) which are all cheap and place together is doubtless cheaper than a chicken!
Fruit is cheap and healthy, try find ones rich in beta carotene fiber and vit c!!
Beans, chickpeas and lentils are SO cheap! I lived off these in student halls.
You can also buy cheap readymeals (vegan) such as tofu cutlets, premade salads and beanbugers that are cheaper than the readymeals I see next to these with meat in them.
I know this isn’t what you are asking, but they are all treated cruel. Chickens are treated the worst of them all, but cows and pigs are treated nearly as terrible. The only way you are even selection would be to buy organic meat, which is still cruel and murder. Buying cheap meat from supermarkets is just supporting it, and intake vegan is a lot cheaper than this.
September 12th, 2009 - 17:53
As many have said, veganism doesn’t have to be expensive – it entirely depends on what you eat. If you spend a lot of time in the bulk and produce sections, it can be quite reasonable. (Beans, rice, and peanut butter are cheaper than meat.)
If however, you spend a lot of time in the pre-packaged processed soymeat section – that adds up fast.
In the meantime though – the meat that is going to be more humanely raised is going to cost a whole lot more. Things like Butterball are cheap because of mass production -> jam in as many animals as possible, get them huge as quick as possible, and get them dead and out the door. More and quicker.
Mass-produced t-shirts cost less than ones made by people who took their time and made them in small batches…Meat is no different. And when you’re in the more and quicker mode, an animal becomes an object.
Thus, I’d suggest looking into switching most of your meals to veggie meals – a lot of people in this world are veggie simply because they can’t afford meat. And, for the meat that you do consume, spend the extra to get it from farms such as ones on this site:
(Just be sure to visit the farm – and pick ones that slaughter on-site. Otherwise, the animals are likely sent through the same hideous slaughterhouses as every other mass-produced animal.)
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Side note – several people here said chickens have it the worst..I have to say that I reckon pigs have it just as terrible…
September 15th, 2009 - 10:43
They all do.
Unless you can find a meat company that only uses animals who died of ancient age.
“VEGAN”, by the way, means someone who not only doesn’t buy or consume meat,
but also someone who doesn’t:
buy or consume eggs, dairy, honey, or foods containing them,
buy or wear fur, leather, wool, silk or clothing trimmed in them,
buy or use products from companies whose distributors conduct animal toxicity tests,
or frequent zoos, circuses, rodeos, aquariums, and other venues where animals are held in captivity or forced to perform for profit.
Life a vegan is no more expensive than life an omnivore.
~lifetime vegan~