Joaquin Phoenix Slams Walmart for Supporting Sickening Cruelty to Pigs

[WhoIsNumberNone]

WARNING: This is really rough stuff. I couldn't watch the whole thing.

The hidden cost of Walmart’s cheap pork is blatant animal abuse. A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation, narrated by actor Joaquin Phoenix, exposes sickening animal abuse in Walmart’s pork supply chain, including piglets being mutilated and mother pigs suffering for life barren metal crates barely bigger than their own bodies. Take action at WalmartCruelty.com.

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

- We are what we eat. Which explains a lot......

See also: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5911912

[chervilant]

2. A group of local entrepreneurs here in Arkansas (home of Wallyworld)

secretly planned and implemented a massive hog farm on a watershed of the Buffalo River in the beautiful Ozark Mountains. These men had obtained "permission" and jumped the required legal hurdles BEFORE the public was made aware of the imminent construction of a facility intended to process thousands of pigs each year.

Concerned citizens are fighting to close this farm. The smells are horrific, and you can see from this graphic video, the pigs are in constant agony, confined to a space so small that they cannot turn around or lay comfortably. It's only a matter of time before pig manure and other toxic waste leaches into the groundwater, polluting one of this nation's last "clean" rivers.

If you are sitting there thinking, "Meh, I'm not gonna stop eating my bacon and sausage!" then you are complicit in the cruelty that brings pork to your table.

[navarth]

3. This.

This is why I'm vegetarian. I love the flavor of meat. But my conscience won't have it anymore.

Any meat eaters want to get on my case for that? Have at it, hoss.

[RebelOne]

8. I won't get on your case because I am a vegetarian.

There are times that I am tempted to eat meat like at this year's Thanksgiving table with the turkey and ham. But like you my conscience will not allow it.

[DeSwiss]

6. Then they need to talk to:

''Whomever's in-charge, gets to define everybody else.'' ~Paul Cienfuegos, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

- They can be stopped if you know how. Local groups have to concentrate their efforts in those areas of environmental standards where they have direct and unequivocal authority. As long as they establish environmental standards that are applicable to all, they're not discriminating.

[navarth]

4. Good on him for doing this.

He's rebelling against Pure Evil. And I'm with him. I stopped participating years ago. I feel fine. I always loved the taste of meat. But I need to be able to look at myself in the mirror. It's that simple. It took me the longest time to live up to it, but I've never regretted going vegetarian.

[mucifer]

5. Consider going vegan or cutting back on dairy and eggs.

There are lots of options out there and the dairy cows and chickens laying eggs are treated horribly.

It took me 30 years of being a vegetarian and cutting back more on dairy and eggs to go vegan. I've been a vegan for the last year. I wish I did it sooner.

[navarth]

7. I hear you.

The biggest problem is getting protein. Eggs provide that, but I insist on cruelty-free dairy. I could be talked into going vegan if the alternatives were easy enough. It took me several years of guilt before I finally stopped participating in meat; I suspect it wouldn't take as long to figure out how to go vegan. Thanks for the insight.

[mucifer]

9. I'm gonna suggest checking out

the vegan forum of reddit :

http://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/

Lots of great support recipes and suggestions. I'm in there a lot.