Also, I will pay more to eat my food with a NON-guilty consciounce.

I know I cant spell, its 5pm and im out.

But if you eat meat because of your selfish appetites, be honest about it with yourself–I’m paying someone to kill animals to satisfy my appetites–and don’t try to justify it by suggesting the animals are worth less because they’ve been raised for food for a few centuries. And if you are here to irritate us, please stop.

To stay rooted in our meat eating habit simply because things have always been that way is to become the walking dead in terms of true social growth.

Does this sound too far fetched? I thought so. So, to me, does vegetarianism.

Maybe so, but to think that we need to continue to do so when there’s no physiological reason to do so is to be stuck in the distant past.

The wide-spread idea of a chicken being anything other than a source of food is a (ridiculously) recent notion.

And so is factory farming.

Finally - “speciecism” is also a made-up notion. It doesn’t exist. Check your dictionary.

Is Mirriam-Webster suitable? OK.

Waste from CAFOs leaches into ground water, pollutes the air, and anyone who is unfortunate enough to live downwind from one of those plants has to deal with the fallout from them (I doubt they make the connection, though). Saying that human problems first is not only speciesist, but I can’t see how human problems are solved or mitigated by brutally killing animals for food.

The thing is, they’re not just “a bunch of chickens.” They are hundreds of millions of individual chickens.

Compassion for animals and compassion for humans are not mutually exclusive. Just because you show compassion towards an animal doesn’t mean you somehow have used up your quota.

Are you saying that companies shouldn’t be scrutinized and brought to task if something they’re marketing as humane and ethical isn’t so?

Are you really naive enough to believe that there are companies out there that don’t treat something poorly?

There aren’t many of them, but there are some.

I serve the creator of this film regularly, and she seems a bit off kilter.

Sounds like a baseless character attack with nothing to back it up.

Wegman’s has done many cities a load of good. They provide substantial employment with competative benifits and wages.

Yes, they have. But that doesn’t excuse them from marketing their eggs as being produced humanely when they simply aren’t.

-Concerned student (RIT)

PS
I have no affiliation with Wegman’s, whatsoever, aside from being a customer of theirs.

but double yay!! on the atkins bankruptcy. to think: i used to do that diet years ago. even then, after a few days i would just not eat becuase the thought of raising one more forkful of flesh to my mouth made me nauseous.

i love being vegetarian part-time vegan. it gets easier every year. sometimes i’m shocked not everyone is vegetarian. i momentarily forget people still eat meat…isnt’ that crazy?

probably more like wishful thinking…

I also watched Wegmans get aggressive about crushing out local competition in the health and organic sector one place where I lived.

What we can best hope for is not that wegmans has a conscience, but that they’re afraid of bad PR.