Both dairy and beef cows also get a bit of a raw deal...
An excerpt from this excellent book...
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
When you picture grass-fed beef, you probably envision an idyllic scene of a cow outside in a pasture munching happily on grass. That is certainly the image those endorsing and selling these products would like you to hold. And there is some truth to it.
But it is only a part of the story. There is something missing from such a pleasant picture—something that nevertheless remains an ineluctable part of the actual reality. Grass-fed beef does not just come to you straight from God's green Earth. It also comes to you via the slaughterhouse.
The lives of grass-fed livestock are more humane and natural than the lives of animals confined in factory farms and feedlots, but their deaths are often just as terrifying and cruel. If they are taken to a conventional slaughterhouse, as indeed most of them are, they are just as likely as feedlot animals to be skinned while alive and fully conscious, and just as apt to be butchered and have their feet cut off while they are still breathing—distressing realities that tragically occur every hour in meat-packing plants nationwide. Confronting the brutal realities of modern slaughterhouses can be a harsh reminder that those who contemplate only the pastoral image of cattle patiently foraging do not see the whole picture.
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution: Amazon.co.uk: John Robbins: 9781573245753: Books
Well perhaps one day you might find a way to overcome your addiction. I used to eat cheese, and vegetarians probably have even more cheese and dairy than meat eaters in an attempt to compensate for the fabled "lack of protein". I don't miss it at all now and had no issues stopping the dairy, so I guess I wasn't addicted.
I switched to soya milk years ago and it's pretty hard to tel the difference with even some of the cheaper supermarket soyas. I've often served up tea for visitors/workmen who were really surprised when I told them that they'd just had a tea with soya milk. The switch also helped clear up my eczema considerably with was a bonus.
Soya used to be terrible in coffee and often go lumpy but that's no longer the case unless you get really crap soya. I much prefer the taste of soya on cereals now too.
Well imo there's a few pieces missing from this story. I'm wondering how complete the "where the food comes from" education is if the slaughtering and butchering bits are left out. Perhaps the piggies go into a magic box and come out ready made sausages like in that old Brazillian prank...
It's possible that the headmaster didn't want to be seen to be caving in to "militant vegan" pressure, "they're going to become sausages whether you like it or not". Up middle finger I show them. NO NO NO Santuary!!!
, even small children!! , almost everyone knows where their meat comes from and don't care!?! (apart from those who claim to know the farmer and what a nice life the pig had before getting to their plate)
I think the difference is in "knowing" that the sausages and t-bones were once little piggies and cows, and actually experiencing the process of turning those cute piggies and cows into sausages and burgers. I'd wager that a fair percentage of folks who would consider themselves to be reasonable compassionate will not want to see the inner workings of an abattoir, even among those parents at that school that are ok with the idea of fattening up the pigs for slaughter. I'm not sure that they'll be overly keen on their children having a front row seat in a slaughter viewing gallery. I could be wrong though.but but but, everyone knows don't they?!?!
we've had proof of the fact that almost all people know where their meat comes from on this very thread a few times and quite recently too
Oh milk always tastes off to me now!
