Larry Althiser of Larry’s Custom Meats, who was featured in a video I posted earlier about where your meat comes from on a cow, is featured once again in this slightly shocking and controversial video showing the killing and cutting floor of his meat processing plant.
Obviously, this video isn’t going to be for everyone but I believe FoodCurated is doing something worthy here by showing a bit of transparency where most meat factories are usually very secretive about. I’m sure everyone won’t feel this way but I believe Larry Althiser is genuinely compassionate for animals despite his profession. Chime in in the comments if you agree or think otherwise.
Wow, this was really interesting! Parts of it are hard to watch , but I’m totally okay with this guy posting the video and showing what actually goes on behind-the-scenes. You can tell this guy is passionate about his work.
Anyone who eats meat has to accept that animals have to die for food, and videos like this make you appreciate the amount of work actually goes into it.
Humane killing is putting an animal down when it is suffering, not when it is healthy and in the prime of its life. Theres nothing compassionate about this, despite the pretensions.
And of course most (not all) animals raised for meat live a life of misery akin to torture before it is slaughtered. most cows are force fed a diet of food they arent evolved to digest while wallowing in their own shit for weeks and have to be shot full of antibiotics and hormones in order to survive the ordeal.
Animals suffer while being force-fed all while living in their own shit? PETA nonsense that tree-huggers swallow as truth without thinking. I’m from a family of farmers and cows are probably the dumbest, friendliest creatures in the world… You’d think that they were born to be meat-animals… I’ve never seen a cow force-fed; they’d probably eat all day if you let them. Anyway, evolution? Haha, do you think cows would ever survive in such large numbers if we humans didn’t take care of them? Pigs are different… and if they weren’t bred for meat, I hope you hippies would serve your porcine overlords well.
i live in the midwest ~ right in the heart of farming. i am surrounded by small farms on all sides and i can assure you that none of the cows, pigs, or other animals that live on these farms are wallowing in their own shit. they roam in wide fields and eat a diet of grains and grasses. the animals that you are talking about are coming from mass produced meat farms where these animals are indeed kept in tiny metal boxes their whole lives but not ALL are like that. just sayin’…
as for this guy… his video/story touched me. i was quite moved by his business practices and so very happy to see that some people still have morals and aren’t completely ruled by the almighty dollar.
i will also add that my husband is and has been a vegetarian since 2001. i am not a vegetarian and we do not raise our children vegetarian but they do have the choice to eat how they choose and they have seen where their meat comes from.
I lived in a small town and there was a feedlot right on the outskirts. It wasn’t as big as the ones Walmart or McDonald’s gets their meat from, but it was a whole pile of shit smelling up a whole country block. The animals had to put their heads through slots to get their feed. Of course it was corn. Cows aren’t biologically made to digest corn, they are supposed to live on a grass diet. If companies didn’t have the cows slaughtered when they did, their stomachs would explode and they would die having their stomach acid burn their insides and making their meat tainted and unfit for consumption. Small privately own farms, that treat their cows well, are going out of business all across the nation because the massive companies are taking over the markets.