The meat industry slaughters and abuses the animals when they are still conscious.
No hunting is not cruel, Hunting is a sport. Where do you think all the meat that we eat comes from.
PETA aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETA does not run local humane societies. They do not adopt out animals, or even support animal ownership. PETA does not support the production of meat or other animal products. PETA does not represent the views of mainstream animal welfare.
Eat your meat, uh, and ignore PETA
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They work for the humane treatment of animals. While they recognize animals will always be killed for meat and it will be hard to stop fur selling and lab testing, they are against cruelty. PETA investigates facilities that are outrageously cruel to animals, and inflict a huge amount of pain on the "specimens". If you went on their website and watched the vids and read about the cruelty, you'd understand. In fact, I reccommend that you do that now.
In 1992 there were 1,264 companies in the prepared meat industry
Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union was created in 1906.
Let me change what was said earlier, no they are not, do not take answers from the guy who can't even spell 'meat' correctly.
Animals are sentient beings and are known to feel pain. Plants are not.
The meat packaging industry
Gustavus F. Swift was a pioneer in developing the meat packing industry.