It's also food safety from before refrigeration and industrialized meat production.

If you give a pig a newspaper, it would eat it. A dead animal, it would eat it. A cow is selective in the kind of grass and it's the farmer's task to weed out the trash no cow would eat and grow the right kind of grass. A not locked up pig would have questionable poisonous stuff inside, free roaming cows only graze what's good for them.

Halal slaughtering is fine. 88% of Halal slaughtering in the UK use electric shock to stun the animals. Kosher doesn't allow stunning.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...ughter-involve

NOT the vegans taking over this thread

Seriously stop it.

Halal is far less cruel than other methods. You are not allowed to torture animals at all and the butchering happening with literally less than a second.

Animals are living organisms. Plants also living organisms.
You eat them, you are killer.

Sure

All animal slaughtering is cruel. It doesn't matter if you slit their throats or chop off their heads, all animals go through hell in the meat industry. From what I've read briefly, halal and kosher seem kinder than standard slaughtering though.

The meat industry in general is cruel.

!! well you learn something new everyday

This is a common misconception - but a rather fallacious one. But I can absolutely see where you're coming from!




"In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium. All known types of organisms are capable of some degree of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development and homeostasis." So, a plant may shy away from a sun by a windowsill just as a human might, if each has an aversion to it, but the fact that something is a "living organism" doesn't necessarily denote it's ability to feel pain, etc.

If you still disagree - it's fine - lemme take you to a slaughterhouse, and you can take me to a watermelon farm.

The passive aggression

Plants vs Zombies say otherwise.

with all due respect to people who eat that for religious reasons, yes it's cruel and no it shouldn't be done. and i think it's dumb how people act like just because something is done for a spiritual belief means it can't be criticized.

edit: i mean, i'm not a vegan (vegetarian), but there are a lot of factors that go into why people eat meat. the religious reason is the only factor here. that's not a good enough reason for me.