theactionindex wrote:...never eating meat again.

you crazy?
I make my own meat. so I tend to not watching the whole peta and greanpeace propaganda movies about how cruel pigs and cows are being treated... I know for a fact that my meat is happy meat
The pigs have enough clean (!) room and enough mud to be happy, get good and enough food and their stable is being cleaned every day.
When it's their time to fulfill their duties as bacon suppliers (lol) they are not stressed, treated with care and separately killed so the others don't get freaked out.. if you stress pigs before you kill them, they tend to produce hormones. these hormones make the meat harder and take away the full tasty-ness.
you might wanna look around for farmers in your area (as long as you don't live in a big city this should be no problem), take a look at how they work, and buy your meat directly from them so you know your meat is being treated good.
