nationwide movement aims to ban controversial conditions

[dntd]

CNN has a breakinhg news video:A nationwide movement aims to ban controversial conditions on factory farms. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.

 

[beakkeeper]

"controversial conditions"??? ie, conditions that are too wretched for the factory farmers to admit to imposing on their livestock.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Could you clarify more please?

 

[77horses]

Not sure what "controversial conditions" means but if it means that they're gonna ban the cruel horrible, awful, terrible, cruel, bad, unimaginable, cruel, (and did I mention cruel?

) conditions at factory farms that the animals are in, then that's great!

I can't wait to see the day when those factory farms that treat the animals so badly crash and burn...Or at least make some major changes. From where some of them are now, they would need to make some drastic changes to make it at least decent...

 

[77horses]

For those of you who may want the link to the website that OP didn't provide:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/04/10/hln.jvm.factory.farm.cnn

 

[dntd]

you found a link I couldn't find one.

 

[Tailfeathers]

Before folks go doing too much jumping up and down and rejoicing, I would suggest you take a step back and look at things a little deeper. I can guarantee you there are those out there that would find something "controversial" or "horrific" about every single one of our places. One only need to look at the crusades Jane Velez-Mitchell has advocated before. Lisa Bloom admits she's a Vegan.

The bottom-line is that these people want to give the same rights and privileges to animals as what humans have. Humans were created in the image of God and it doesn’t do justice to animals or humans to personify and humanize animals. Listen to the rhetoric of those who talk about these animal conditions. "Even if you are a meat eater...", "these animals lives are miserable..." - right there is assuming that an animal thinks as a human does or has the same emotions that a human does. Did you hear the way the undercover man spoke when he used the word "strangle" referring to the pigs? A judge evidently didn't have a problem with it when they tried to prosecute. Now they're going the Referendum Route and trying to play on the emotions of people. What do you suppose would happen if those folks caught you pulling the head off of one of your roosters? Or how about the Killing Cone Method and running a knife thru the upper part of the bird's mouth?

Look at the most recent ads running by the Humane Society. Terrible pictures are shown as a narrator uses all sorts of inflammatory language and a song is playing in the background that is clearly intended to tug on the hearts strings of anyone watching the commercial. While they beg you to send your money in to protect those animals, they fail to mention that the Humane Society is likely to spend your money on anti-hunting legislative campaigns instead of improving the conditions of those animals. The also fail to mention that most likely those animals would be quickly put to death if they came into their care. PETA, another organization often involved behind the scenes in these activities made their intentions fully clear until they realized the backlash. When they tried to put an end to fishing by saying something along the lines of, "How would you like to be impaled on a hook and dragged away from your family only to be thrust on the beach and left gasping for air or having your head bashed in with a stick?" - it backfired on them and most folks saw them for what they clearly are. Now they are more insidious in their efforts.

Now, just to be clear, I am not suggesting that a person should not be a good steward of that which he has been given. They most certainly should be. I'm simply suggesting that one looks below the surface to see whether or not there are any underlying or potentially hidden agendas. I submit that if one spends just a little time looking, it's not that hard to see that these folks (especially the Hollywood types) have lost touch with Mainstream America, have generated their own form of "morality" that is inconsistent with most of America, and are now simply trying to change the morals of this country to what they deem acceptable in their own minds.

I hate to sound too cliche' but before you go jumping on this bandwagon you just might want to look at the very slippery slope before you.

God Bless,

 

[Ferrret]

I'm all for better treatment of animals and an overhaul of factory farms. The book called "The Jungle" exposed a lot about slaughter houses and made for a big reform there.

I do worry that sensationalists will grab a hold of this and make many people disinterested in the movement. Jane Velez-Mitchell comes across as one of those sensationalists who will shout at you through the TV and run with as much of the story as she has while filling in the gaps in info with whatever she can think up. I recall her jumping-to-conclusions-rants about the Nevaeh child's murder.
Ranting, raving, angry people and the lunatic fringe only scare people off. They need to push this story more on the main channels of CNN, Fox and MSNBC with legitimate looking and rational sounding speakers to get a wider range of people to pay attention. It would make better use of their news anchors than to have them talk about stupid celebrity gossip and funny/cute you-tube videos.

I think everyone should know where their food comes from and the condition it is kept in before it makes it to your plate. I'm an omnivore with no real special diet and I know that a cow dies so I can eat steak. I wish a lot more people would open their eyes beyond the produce section at the store and see what goes into their stomachs. Not just raising crops and harvesting fruit, but the lives of the animals they eat. Most of the factory farm animals live a short life as it is, making that life a good one should industry standard.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

It may be a slippery slope, but to let horrible things go on without attempting to change it is something I cannot live with.

 

[Illia]

I don't think it could happen. Everyone thinks of cruelty to animals differently. Some think that they deserve it because they are animals, some think "cage free" hens are fine, and some go all out for the want of truly free range hens.

But if you really think of that - How in the world can huge producers of eggs, meat, milk, etc actually put ALL of their animals into well ventilated, cleaned, and designated environments with a proper diet and treatment?

It will take a lot of money, compassion, and care of the animal and not the product/money for such to happen.