people suck sometimes ( a lot of the time )
People like to assume that the meat they eat comes from animals that died quickly and painlessly, but that just isn't how it happens. The meat industry is enormous, and most people know nothing about it, but support it nonetheless. I think people should be more conscientious consumers. People should be aware that their actions have consequences and the purchases they make reflect the industries they are supporting monetarily, if not morally.
"We believe that people who are eating our products are assuming the food animals being used are treated in a humane manner," -Burger King spokesman Rob Doughty*
"Yet here as they lie stricken and needful, writhing on cement floors, they are cut open with machetes and left to slowly suffocate, convulsing and contorting in the throes of agony."
-Earthlings, a documentary
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1282796533661048967
*This quote is actually from an article about how Burger King is pushing the USDA to make more regulations regarding the humane treatment of animals in meat factories...and BK has veggie burgers, rock on.
