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It's the slaughterhouse that are worst. And the conditions in which they're kept. You can't going to see that from the countryside. I'm not disillusioned, though, I know not every slaughterhouse is as cruel as the ones Peta highlights, but when you're eating your meat, how do you know which slaughterhouse it came from? And please, not free-range. Having a cage within 10 feet of a window doesn't justify the exact same torture they still get.
Oh, I know. What the government can let people call "free range" and "organic" is a travesty. Luckily, though, most foods will have claims somewhere else on the package that they can be held accountable for. Luckily, this can only get better with time.

As for whether you can trust where your meat came from... well, you can't really know for sure whether or not or sneakers or clothes were made in horrible conditions when you buy them, either. You just have to come to terms with it, and have faith in humanity, and hope and work to make things better. That's my explanation. Don't mistake it for an argument; 'vegetarian vs. not' is based too much on subjective morals to be argued, I think.

Hopefully, I'll be able to avoid this thread now.