At Factory Farms, Animals Attack Each Other All the Time

[NashVegas]

For example, chickens are debeaked, to keep them from killing each other before they can grow large enough to be slaughtered.

Cattle are dehorned for the same reason.

In that light, I give you the following:

you bloggers just don’t understand. for us wal-mart shoppers, saving a few hundred dollars is very important. on average we make $10/hour so saving $230 is worth over half a weeks worth of work. if you make the assumption that there were many of us saving at least a half of weeks worth of work, the sum of all our savings and hence time spent is worth many months worth of work. the guard should have known not to get in the way
Comment by wal-mart shopper - November 28, 2008 at 3:24 pm

[mediaman007]

1. Walmart is making the United States a third-rate country.

If Americans had jobs that paid a living wage, perhaps a few would stay home.

Thank goodness, I already have a big (80 pounds) tv, so I don't have to fight to get one. It might be old, the programs are actually the same on mine, as they are on the new ones!

[NashVegas]

2. It's Not Just Wal-Mart

It's every entity that profits by keeping people hungry and ignorant.

[mediaman007]

3. WalMart shows the rest how to be good at it!

[madmom]

7. "If Americans had jobs that paid a living wage" this is exactly why we need to keep

auto workers working and not let the big 3 go under. They pay a living wage and the anti LOAN people who say let them fail are just falling into the same trap. They want to lower wages and benefits nothing more nothing less.If they are allowed to go down we will all end up living in this world.

[Mari333]

4. Thats why I dont live in a large city

and why I dont eat meat.

[Bluzmann57]

9. I live in a medium sized city

and I love meat. In fact, I think I'll go have some now.
Sorry if I come off like a smart ass, but vegans tend to irritate me because many of them have a holier than thou attitude.

[Mari333]

10. yes but i dont care if you eat meat. aye, theres the rub n/t

[codjh9]

5. Good God Almighty! Oh, so it was the GUARD's fault, was it? No wonder so much has been

written about the rise of rudeness, & the fall of civility, in this country. We even kill people rushing to buy a TV and 'who gives a fuck'?!? God help us all. I'm even an agnostic, but have used 'God' in this post twice... I guess I have to appeal to something in the face of insanity like this.

[BanzaiBonnie]

6. and the tails of dairy cows are nearly taken off

Has nothing to do with attacking another animal, but it's one of those health and safety things that is done because of the size of dairy farms.

[iamjoy]

8. What A Clod

the guard should have known not to get in the way

I mean, what insensitivity and callousness. I was with the person until that last sentence. If some one is making $10 an hour but still wants to provide what our society calls a nice Christmas for his/her family, Wal-Mart may be (or at least seem like) the only option.

I do not blame those people who rushed into the store. I know many do, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt - they never meant to hurt anyone and probably feel sick about what they did. The doors opened and everyone started rushing, pushing the people in front of them. Some had been at the store for hours to try to get the flat panel tv (or whatever) their family had been wanting for years and this was their first chance to afford it. Why do we judge their greed more harshly than that of the corporate executives?

But, it is not the security guard's fault either. I bet he makes just about $10 per hour, and he struggles to pay the bills too. For him, it was not a choice to get up in the cold, dark, pre-dawn hours the day after Thanksgiving. There was no where for him to get out of the way of the surging mob.

I hope this person was being sarcastic, but I think too many people really have this attitude.

[NashVegas]

11. I Don't Think He Was Being Sarcastic At All

I think he was reflecting the reality people in low-income, low-education communities are stuck with. It doesn't even cross his mind that it was Wal-Mart's responsibility to provide security.