Here's something that everyone needs to know right now...this is exactly the same as the whole "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" thing, just less specific. And that is VERY important.
It is important because people find it incredibly easy to boycott KFC because of an internet video, because the people getting mad don't eat at KFC. It's easy to just say, "I won't buy KFC, I'll just buy my chickens/beef/whatever from a different place." The problem is that KFC is not in the farming business. They are in the RESTAURANT business.
KFC doesn't torture the animals themselves, because they don't own and operate the farms. They simply buy the meat, just like me and most of you. They don't raise the animals, just like me or most of you. They are merely buying a product, just like me or most of you.
And that should be a wake-up call to anyone who genuinely cares about this kind of thing. Some dude somewhere stopped eating at KFC because of the "cruelty" thing, and instead decided to buy chicken from the supermarket and cook that chicken himself. However, I guarantee that there is someone who has done this in order to ease his conscience, while neglecting to research which farms supply meat to his preffered supermarket. In quite a few of these cases, the supermarket and KFC will be supplied with meat by the exact same source.
Think about it...I'm sure many of the people here buy chicken from the supermarket, but I'm betting that less than half know who actually SUPPLIES those chickens. Tysons? Pilgrim's Pride? How many people know (off the top of their heads, no looking it up on google) who the SUPPLIER was in the "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" thing?
Here's the thing...people are willing to be selectively ignorant as long as it doesn't personally affect them. When people see a moral wrong, they often look for a convenient scapegoat (KFC when it comes to animal cruelty, videogames when it comes to violent children) in order to avoid making any changes.
And that's the thing to remember here....if you have EVER purchased a meat product without knowing or caring where the meat came from or how the animal was killed, then you are just as morally reprehensible as KFC. If willful ignorance is a valid excuse, then KFC has a clear conscience. And if profitting off of torture and death is NOT excused by ignorance, then everyone who eats meat needs to man up and do some research before pointing fingers. Research the SOURCES, the people who actually KILL the animals. Stop looking at the animals as a mere PRODUCT, and do not buy the meat unless you have researched it thoroughly enough.
But...most people aren't going to do that. I don't do that, most of you guys probably won't do that either. So it'd seem pretty ****ed up for me to point the finger at companies like KFC for doing EXACTLY the same thing that I am doing. I mean, if I'm going to care about torture, then I'll care about torture. But it doesn't really help to point the finger at a convenient scapegoat if I'm doing EXACTLY the same thing by avoiding the scapegoat and not doing my research.
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