re: Anyone here vegan or vegetarian or tried a vegan or vegetarian diet?

I've seen the Sanderson farms chicken plants. I've known people who's high school job was to clean out the chicken coops. You should realize that these books are often written by people with agendas who are already against a practice and write everything down to demonize it. Not everything that is done is pleasant. Not trying to sound that way, but do you want to pay $4 or $7 for your meat. For you it may be easy to pay $7. But for the average person, that's not affordable.

If anything (obviously not ANYTHING) they are doing is done to increase meat production, then it doesn't bother me that much. I'd rather not have to have my chicken pumped with hormones and antibiotics because they are raised in confined coops together, but it doesn't hurt my feelings either. If there poking chickens with sharp sticks to get their jollies, then that's messed up.