The way animals are really treated (From Worcester News)

Unfortunately, Pauline, websites such as the one you have mentioned tend to be EXTREMELY biased, and do not paint the whole picture in any way, shape or form.

Whilst there may well be a number of questionable slaughter practices and slaughterhouses around the country, the majority of them process the animals in a quick and efficient way. At the end of the day, the meat business is a HUGE market - most slaughterhouses will employ the most quick and efficient way of killing the animals, not only to reduce suffering and stress to a minimum, but also (as with 99% of things), to maximise their revenue. It is a business, after all.

Pushing people to an animal welfare website so that they can get "the full picture" makes no sense. Might I suggest that perhaps you visit a reputable abbatoir as well in this case, so that you can see that not all of them are as bad as websites such as the one you have mentioned make them out to be.

I'm actually going out for a meal tonight - and now I quite fancy steak and chips.

Just visited the website, think im off to have a nice rare steak and a glass of port for breakfast now. ;-)

Rather than taking the extremist view, my preference has always been to try and buy local meat where the source is known and guaranteed to have been raised and killed humanely.
I enjoy a nice rare steak, I'm having it tonight, and nobody is going to persuade me otherwise, least of all vegans. However, I will only buy it from reputable butchers.

Kind of ironic really. If Pauline Burgess (from Malvern) happens to have a relative called Jon Burgess (also from Malvern) then there seems to be a very mixed view within the family. Jon likes to chase terrified animals across the countryside with a slavering pack of hounds while Pauline likes to save the poor little animals from an inhumane slaughter.

(I apologise if these two people are not related in anyway but it does seem a like a coincidence).

I eat meat and I expect it to be killed humanely. Humans used to hunt for their own food for survival but now it is done for us en masse. The TV programme “Kill It – Cook It – Eat It” showed me how things are done – and I’m happy with that. What I don’t like is unnecessary suffering to animals for the purpose of our own selfish needs – like saying foxes are pests just because they are going about their own survival business.

To me – there are two types of animal – pets and livestock. Pets are loved by people and are accepted as part of the family while livestock is used for consumption or for providing us with their own products like milk and eggs. There is no third animal on my agenda – the one that’s classed as a pest and then hunted down by men for sport.

I must defend Pauline here. Tulstar, MrStJohns and Maggie seem a little immature - by teasing Pauline with “I’m going to eat steak tonight” just because she shows vegan views is ridiculous.

It is fact that all living animals, including man, value their lives. To unnecessarily take life from anything cannot be justified in this day and age with so much far healthier food available which does not rely on exploiting other life forms. Your body on a temple and reflects what you put into it. If you feed it animal corpse rather than vitamin and mineral rich fruit and vegetables then there will be an effect.

Dereck
Many nutritionists would say that protein rich meat has a place in a balanced diet.
The human body is designed to eat an omnivorous diet with balance being the key.
I prefer to eat a mixture of good quality fresh vegetables and good meat. I may tend to eat too much resulting in me not being as slim as I perhaps should be but my regular yearly check up by the Doctor has just given me a clean bill of health.
If you prefer to eat a vegan diet that is your choice.

New kid, thank you for your permission!