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Originally Posted by garnet
Is a "little" cruelty OK, just as long as it's not 100 hours worth of cruelty? So in other words, you're condoning the activity on that video tape. I could make the same argument about the Rodney King tape. That, too was just a few minutes of videotape, and we know not all cops behave like that. Because they showed it on the news, is the news media guilty of spreading propaganda about the LAPD?
You dislike PETA (and that's fine--you are entitled to your opinion) so you therefore assume everything they do is tainted somehow and intentionally full of malice.
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No, a little cruelty is not OK. I posted earlier today that I'm glad PETA was there to film the cruelty, and I'm glad those responsible were punished. But PETA took it one step further. They implied that this is the normal, approved way of doing business in the meat industry. They urged the viewer to give up meat to stop the cruelty. That is misleading.
The abuser in these videos was not following normal company policy while doing these things. He would probably be disciplined if a supervisor saw him intentionally damaging the product by beating the pigs. That would be like a line worker at GM smashing the windshields as the cars rolled down the line. A company would never go for that.