AIBU to consider becoming a vegetarian after seeing this video?

[Phosphene]

I just saw this shocking video.

I know that if I want to eat meat, I need to know where it is coming from but surely there is a more 'pleasant' way for animals to die than this?

I think the problem is less the way they die, and more the way they live. To me, this type of farming is totally unacceptable. It is why I was a vegetarian for 12 years.

Now, I am involved in farming, and I do eat meat again. I only eat meat from farms I have visited. The meat must be organic (unless I have raised it myself) - the organic label means higher welfare practices as well as more environmentally friendly farming practices.

I think on the whole, we should be much pickier about where our meat comes from.

Yes, I already buy organic food and we have our own chicken for eggs. But even though it is organic, you never know where it's coming from.

It is possible to know exactly where your meat comes from IME. I never eat meat in restaurants, because as you say, I don't know where it comes from. Any meat I buy however - I make sure I know exactly where it came from. This usually means buying from farm shops. I think if it is important to you OP, you can find a place to source meat from that you are comfortable with.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with vegetarianism either :)

YANBU. It makes me really sad that lots of people think they're entitled to cheap meat even though this is the cost. It used to be that meat was a luxury which people ate once or twice per week because it was expensive. Now lots of people, especially in developed countries, think they should be eating meat once or twice per day and think they're making a big sacrifice to have 1 meat free day per week.

I am veggie, and after watching just 49 seconds of that video I feel totally justified in my decision. I did eat meat for a period of time and watched those 'kill it,cook it,eat it' programmes on tele. I thought that they looked ok but those were the best conditions possible for an animal to die. In reality, how many animals get a happy,fulfilled life followed by a dignified and calm death? Not many I bet. Listen to the Smiths song, 'meat is murder'.

Of course I believe in everyone's right to chose whether or not to eat meat. My son would have no problem eating human meat if it was offered, but my 7 year old daughter has become veggie after hearing about the horse meat saga (she has a little pony).

I don't harp on about my decision not to eat meat and when questioned about it (which happens regularly) I just say that I don't want to eat it.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

I'm sat here in tears watching just the first minute. I can't watch any more. I'm the same as the previous poster, I only buy organic meat and don't eat meat in restaurants. Please please tell me this is much better from an animal welfare point of view??

I buy organic meat from ocado btw, not farm shops. I feel sick.

The truth is, Killing an animal is always cruel, how can it not be? (Unless ill Ofcourse)
Obviously it is better if they have had a good life. But ultimately the fear they must feel at the end cannot be seen as ok, organic or not?

Buy fresh and local from the butchers. You're entitled to eat or not eat what you want, better to source food ethically than deprive yourself with a restrictive diet though. I couldn't live without sirloin steak tbh, if you can, good for you