I assume that people posting with this Today Tonight-esque moral outrage are all vegetarians ? Must be, otherwise you would be feeling guilty as hell about the absolute inhumane conditions your dinner was kept under during the animal's LIFE, arguablt a far more concerning factor than the inevitable few moment approaching DEATH.
What's for breakfast ? Eggs that come from a battery hen that lives in torture-chamber conditions not big enough to spread her wings ? Australia has one of the worst codes of conduct regarding the practice amongst first world nations.
How about her friend the broiler chicken, intended to be a Sunday Roast at mum's place ? Raised in a factory farm, otherwise known as a big indoor warehouse, never sees sunlight, amongst disease-ridden conditions, pumped up with unnaturally nutritious feed so the poor things grow so damn fast that many cannot develop their legs fast enough to hold their own bloated body weight under their young chicken legs. Chronic pain throughout their LIFE for the sole purpose of being a tasty treat in your KFC Zinger burger.
Or that sensuously fatty rasher of bacon which came from our friend Porky, who lives in a cramped, overcrowded pen, occsionally taken out to enjoy a SMALLER pen during farrowing/nursing piglets, too small to swing a cat. let alone have mother of Babes do a 360 turn. Let's not forget that breeders are used like productive fat whores, and forced to spend most of her life constantly breeding or nursing, before going to the great pig-gig in the sky (actually to your plate). Resisting the slaughterhouse truck, my darlings ? That's OK, we'll prod you with electric shockers to help you change your mind.
Or our friend the beef beast, dear sweet steaky cow. Whose only intention of existing is not for a joyful lazy life to rear her young, graze with friends in the field and die a natural death, but to eat amongst other inmates, be coralled from field to field, frightened constantly by dogs & land cruisers into conformity.
Let's make something clear. I am NOT vegetarian, so I don't really care much about that described above if you were to put a bacon & egg two beef patty burger before me. What does make me sick is the shock-horror-OMG presentation of developing country barbarism, or in other words thinly veiled racist agendas undertaken by the media (who do this constantly, and at every opportunity).
Animals being skinned alive ? Goddamn it that's awful, do you think the same of yourselves or your mates when you go fishing, catch a big fat bream and chuck it in bucket of 30 water to die a cruel death ? Speaking of aquatic food, how about the taste of a lovely fresh crab that's been killed by immersion in boiling water ? Yum Yum Yum ! Not a fisherman, but love your seafood ? The best, freshest fish at the markets is always the ones that are still flapping around on ice, under lights and behind glass. You know its going to be tasty because its still moving when you take it nack to your car wrapped in paper and stuffed into a plastic bag.
Halal, hey ? If anyone would bother to look into it properly, you would find that is superior treatment of an animal over its life & death cycle from birth to plate. Generally being performed in less industrialised countries, the animals are often kept in much better conditions than in the 'west'. as mentioned by Bradley, a quick slash to the throat is all it takes, along with some prayers (or whatever). IN fact, as developing nations become more industrialised, there is much discussion amongst Islamic scholars whether the global, multinational future of production can even maintain a proper halal concept in a food factory setting, and their take is that the future of food will inevitably me more cruelty laden, just as those infidels in the USA, Australia, etc have been doing for years.
Effectively, thios mainstream media bullshit about the alleged inhumanity of 'other countries' is no different than the propaganda machine over at PETA. You want to be a conciences world citizen, then be a vegetarian. Otherwise, please show some independant persective before believeing everything you see on TV and read in the shitty daily newspaper. We can make our own choices on how to interperet things, but that comes from self-education beyond the idiot box or the internet.
Thats all from me, its 7:30, the HLT is heating up and Im going to cook up some snags for breakfast.