Humans are part carnivore and part herbivore. To say humans shouldn't eat meat is stupid. Our bodies are designed to eat meat. We have specially designed teeth to eat meat just like other meat eating animals. Yes, animals in these major meat processing plants are being treated poorly and I would also like to see these conditions for them improve. But lets be honest here, do you think the people who buy meat are willing to pay the extra costs for these conditions to improve for animals who are going to meet their demise anyway? No. The general public does not want to burden the extra cost, which is exactly what will happen.

I'm not using that as a means of justification for treating animals the way they do, it is just the facts.

BTW, I grew up on a farm in Iowa that raised pigs. I thought their conditions on our farm were pretty good considering how much money we were spending on the buildings to house them.