There's a video of them throwing a live grown cow into the grinder.
*note to anyone, don't watch the link if you cannot handle gruesome videos.

I agree, I've seen tons of videos like this (as you can see on this board) and I've made some debates about it over the years but I just can't stop eating meat. I told my parents and they said it's impossible. When you're living in an asian household (specifically Chinese, Vietnamese, and I think even Korean) the main dishes are always meat. I eat meat everyday, and there's not a day when I'm not. The only chance I'll ever get to stop eating meat is if I move out, and even then I don't know if I could do it.

Well, once I'm old enough to move out and have a real say in what I eat based on what is bought I'll definitely look into it.

Oh god, I don't know if I can handle that video. D: But I know what you mean. Sometimes it's just the way the rest of the family eats that affects how you eat. According to a friend I know that is vegetarian it's sometimes really hard to just have soup or something when her family is having something BBQ.

Oh god, this video was bad enough. I don't know if I can watch the cow one or the video in the first post.

I recently got my parents to understand that I need to be a vegetarian though. I get what you're saying, it's so RIDICULOUSLY hard to be one in most of Asia, but I kinda put my foot down and said if they weren't going to provide I'd just manage myself. Which may be the case some of the time. :/

That being said, it IS tough to give up meat. Videos like this help though.

EDIT: Watched the cow one. When they threw in the horse I had to hold back before I nearly threw up.

Not going to watch this

Yeah. I talked to my parents about being a vegetarian, and I even showed them some of the gruesome videos. When they saw the videos I didn't get the reaction I was expecting from them. Instead I got "OMG! My friends ate dogs back home too!!!" "OMG since when were you so interested in food from back home??"

Shocking video, no doubt about this, but this doesn't make me become into a vegetarian anyway.

Those people who badtreat animals that way are either sick or just see that as a way to release their anger. Those farmers don't have any reasons to not harm them either cause they know that those animals will die anyway. Sometimes when a person spends too much time in a kind of job that many people would see as growse, monotone or unacceptable for a society, they just get used to it, and farmers just become insensitive towards those kind of animal killing procedures. It's like a person working on recolecting garbage, at first they will say, "ew, what a horrible smell", but as time passes, the person will get used to that smell ( obviously, there can be some exceptions ). Those can be horrible jobs, but someone will have do to them anyway.

I honestly don't aproove that kind of behavior, though. Now, being realistic, the best thing animals organizations can do is to improve and boost health conditions for the animals. Meet demand is constantly growing because world population is constantly growing as well, and let's be honest, it's almost impossible to make people eat only vegetables. Some reasons may vary between a certain region gastronomy, geographic location, culture, beliefs and so on.

OH GOD

i couldnt watch it all.

Is it bad that this didn't really alarm/disgust/affect me in any way?

Anyway, I've got to get back to butchering my prized hog. TTYL.

Anyway, I didn't watch the video, don't think I'd be able to handle.

I don't eat meat anyway.

Are you serious?
I like you know, what a great human being. For real, props.