
and kids to an even more disturbing level.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:42,
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Or plastic, or CDs, or clothes, or anything.
All they need to know is that they can go to a shop and get whatever it is they want in exchange for money.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:44,
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All they need to know is that they can go to a shop and get whatever it is they want in exchange for money.

and is why when asked what Crisps are made from so many get confused and say "apples" "breadcrumbs" and such like.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:46,
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I like my read meat very blue so am very fussy about where it comes from and how it's been stored.
Also chicken tastes of nothing if it's not free ranged and eaten good quality feed.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:49,
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Also chicken tastes of nothing if it's not free ranged and eaten good quality feed.

Meat from Waitrose is better than meat from Asda.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:53,
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which is why I get mine delivered on pizza, it only has to travel from cardboard box to my mouth then
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:59,
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It's just by the time you actually get fucking served by the dumb corpse behind the till it's sprouting flies.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:36,
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Good meat is better than bad meat, but free-range chickens will, de-facto, be less tender than barn hens.
Not that I want the poor buggers barn reared, you understand.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 13:59,
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Not that I want the poor buggers barn reared, you understand.

I don't need to know about the forest-farming, wood-pulping, paper-making, ink-distilling or typesetting industries to buy a newspaper
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:03,
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That's my point - all this nonsense about knowing where meat comes from like it would make a difference to anything if they did.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:17,
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www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/462_mitchellsa.pdf
"Whenever and wherever possible, it is important that nonhuman farming be portrayed as abusive in its essential character, even in its supposedly more benign forms such as “free range,” “traditional,” or “grass fed.” It needs to be apprehended by the public as a system in which nonhumans are held captive, mutilated, controlled, impregnated, castrated, and killed."
Which is quite frankly a load of shite
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:29,
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"Whenever and wherever possible, it is important that nonhuman farming be portrayed as abusive in its essential character, even in its supposedly more benign forms such as “free range,” “traditional,” or “grass fed.” It needs to be apprehended by the public as a system in which nonhumans are held captive, mutilated, controlled, impregnated, castrated, and killed."
Which is quite frankly a load of shite

I posted it the other week because it contained interesting stuff on how the brain filters things out and allows terrible things to happen (like the holocaust)
That said I do agree that we should stop making flouncy phrases and hiding from the reality of how animals are treated/slaughtered and processed for mass consumption. If people don't like it, stop eating the things.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:39,
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That said I do agree that we should stop making flouncy phrases and hiding from the reality of how animals are treated/slaughtered and processed for mass consumption. If people don't like it, stop eating the things.

I agree that people should be better informed about where their food comes from but I don't think greater understanding of the field-to-plate-process would alter their choices much one way or the other.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 14:55,
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a startling number of people have no concept of where their food comes from or what is done to it to make it in to Mr Men shaped processed meat slices. This is about re-educating, not scaring off. Although if it does encourage people to eat less then its a bonus.
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Mon 16 May 2011, 15:06,
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