[tivodan1116]

Quote by: Muckraker The problem is that the vast majority of people that are "for" killing animals for food never kill animals for food. They go to the grocer and pick up packaged and processed goods that are indistinguishable from their sources.

What's wrong with that? The vast majority of people who are "for" curbside trash pickup don't take their trash to the dump themselves - does that mean they don't get trash pickup?

People don't need to have a complete knowledge of something in order to appreciate or properly use it.

If people were required to end the life of an animal in order to eat meat then the number of vegetarians would increase ten-thousand-fold.

Unsupported conjecture.

Why do you think they don't take grade-schoolers on tours of slaughterhouses?

I don't know who "they" are, but my school did, in fact, go on tours of things like that.

Why do you think children are inundated with images of happy animals and are never told that their Chicken McNuggets require the miserable life and brutal death of Big Bird?

Because that would be a lie. They do not, and you are making the classic animals rights mistake/fraud of anthropomorphizing our food - chickens are "Big Bird", venison is "Bambi," pork is "Arnold from Green Acres"... Using these fictional representations of animals to represent the animals we kill for food is dishonest - it does not come even close to accurately portraying the animals. The chickens I eat do not live on Sesame Street, they don't have friends that sing songs, they cannot reason, they don't cry when Mr. Hooper dies, etc.

It's to make is so that people don't ask questions that they won't want to know the answers to. It's no different than a cheapskate buying a stereo out of the trunk of someone's car. It could have come from the murder/robbery down the block but if they found that out then they may not want to buy it and get the great savings. So they don't bother inquiring.

Those people do, in fact, know they are getting stolen stereos and don't care. So why would you think food would be any different?

The majority of people who eat meat don't want to know what it is or where it came from. The ignorance of the process, the high availability, and the indoctrination from childhood are the only things that keep them eating it.

More unsupported conjectures. Do try to support your arguments with facts, please.

I will only eat meat when I can look that creature in the face and bash its brains out with a clear conscience. Needless to say, I won't go to that extreme just to have something that "tastes good."

I think you have an incredibly warped sense of what actually goes on in food production.