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- The majority of consumers don't care about these issues. It's a small minority of eco zealots who care more about animals than they do humans. Starbucks caved into pressure from vegans over the crushed bug coloring controversy. Silly. And, BTW, cage-free can also mean that the cramped cage has a small opening allowing for some to occasionally get out and roam a very short distance....cage-free doesn't mean the beasts are roaming around the great spanse of land. There is no government definition for what constitutes cage-free.
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- If 'cage-free' does in fact include the situation that you describe, undercover investigators will expose that, too, and the public will decide if it's acceptable. That will happen despite efforts by states to CRIMINALIZE the undercover work which has exposed the atrocities in factory farms and slaughterhouses. I know that I wouldn't be deterred by a law intended to hide from the public the hellholes which the Agriculture Dept deems accebtable.
- I prefer muscular chickens and pigs. So I'm all for the improved work out conditions Burger King is suggesting.
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- some people don't have a clue about farm life - the animals on family farms are treated very well - they eat before most of their owners eat - they are taken care in the worst of winter and the heat of summer - chickens are caged to protect them from coyotes and farm machinery that might injure them or kill them - the family farm is a business with a lot of blood, sweat and even tears - right now the wheat has headed out a month early due to weather conditions - we are concerned that with a killing frost it could ruin a crop that has taken a long time to grow - and provides the income for many people - or between now and harvest it could hail and that has the potential to wipe out a crop -
when you say how you can't believe the way animals are treated - get a clue - you sit in the city and decide to become vegetarians or only eat organic and you just don't know what you are talking about - and yes, I know - I grew up in the city and have had my eyes opened to the many hardships of raising beef, pigs, chickens, and the plants you say you might eat if grown under very strict guidelines that you believe protect you from the horrible things that we might put on your food - and really check out Chipotle before you say that's the only thing you'll eat - are they really treating all their meat any better than any other restaurant or fast food joint - I don't know - I just wonder if you've visited all the places they get their product from -
Be careful whose toes you step on - the average farmer feeds at least 75 people - that's the average small farmer in America - there are starving kids in this world that would give anything for a good meal of beef from livestock raised on the average American farm - - Reply to this comment
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- So what are you saying? That the videos taken by undercover investigators of the conditions in the factory farms are staged?
- No, I'm not saying that - that's a snapshot in time - and most "investigative reporters" are looking for media hype - something to get people all worked up about so they are editing to fit their needs - also, corporate farms not necessarily a good thing - you can take anything you want a make an ugly story about it with editing and twisting of the story -
I am talking about the family farms that are the backbone of America - and the farmers that are trying to eek out a living but are being targeted by so many government regulations - i.e. - the new law that they are trying to enact to keep the farm kids of America from helping on their parents farms - doing chores, participating in FFA and 4-H - which are organizations that build character and produce very good work ethics among kids - that's what I'm refering too -
- Burger King makes cage-free promise --- So? Why should we believe Burger King?
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- WHAT ABOUT THE WHEAT THAT MUST STAND IN THE HOT SUN DAY AFTER DAY?
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- First of all, I believe Burger King is the 3rd largest fast food chain, Wendy's is 2nd. Secondly, being originally from California, I have to say California has no happy cows since almost all of them are caged. Since moving to Missouri, the majority of their cows are open pasture and much happier. It's only the last week or so of their life that the reality of their existence sets in. Although I applaud Burger King in making this move, it's to bad they have to do it as a knee jerk reaction to losing market share rather than the humanity the move implies.
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- Cage free doesn't mean a whole lot.
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- Good for them. I want healthy food. They get my business. And how bout that pink slime? Their burgers certainly don't taste as good as when I was growing up.
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- Great news. Thank you Burger King for stepping up. I would like to see most of our produce organically grown and our meats and poultry chemical-freein this country. In my mind...no reason why it shouldn't be with the USA's ingenuity and technology busting at the seams. Time for us to grow as a country in the food manufacturing industry!
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- Now, they need to make a meat free version of their junk food, e.g. Veggie Burger King, and only then might I consider eating there.
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