Farmers Walk Chinese Style!

leeboy said:wow allot of vegetarians on here or do you only eat the animals you know didnt suffer?

davidhowarth said:
My Beef is with the second picture....
I used to feel the same when people would slide the last three meters of yoke/farmers over the line hear too.
Did the animal suffer in the making of my chicken butty? who nose.
vegetarians would have a different to me.
Is the world very much black and white to you??

MattD90 said:
The meat industry is far from flawless but at no point in a UK pig's life will anything like this happen to it, and if it did would result in prosecution if anyone saw. Definitely wouldn't attract a 100+ strong crowd loving every minute of it that's for sure. Apologies to any chinese on here but this is indicative of attitudes of a full society not just an individual, that's the worst part

leeboy said:
you havnt heard and seen all the controversial stuff from slaughter houses? we kill animals everyday because we need to survive? no because they taste so good. how are those pictures worse? out of sight out of mind?

sexymikehowarth said:


Overall not a nice sight and advert for the strongman game... Just another nail in the coffin for farmers walk IMO which is why it's being completely removed as an event I feel

MattD90 said:
Alot of what you see online is sensationalised by animal rights groups taken from other countries where practices are different from here. There is tight regulation in the UK the standard is generally very good (As long as people are adhering to the rules). I can't argue with the fact we just eat animals because they taste good, I agree. I am selfish myself and do it purely for that reason.
This is different to slaughter because abattoirs are regulated, and because in a more forward thinking country with better animal welfare law like the UK (though still not perfect) this would be illegal. Intrinsically transport and some other parts of a UK pig's life it will experience stress, but often unavoidable for husbandry/welfare reasons. These pictures however are totally avoidable.
Admittedly UK farming practices are not perfect. However I am of the view that it is better to have lived well and died young than to never have lived at all. As long as we can make that bit of life farm animals do have relatively stress and pain free and as far separated from these images as possible and the welfare of the (albeit) short life is very good, what's wrong then? All you're really left to argue then is the ethics of ending something's life prematurely, which really is a separate debate and one no one can really change anyone else's mind on.

Big_Vess said:
I thought along with a press / deadlift and stones, farmers walk was a stable event for a comp?? have i missed somthing / would be interested in hearing cheers Mike.

JC said:
I'd imagine a battery farmed chicken suffers a lot more than this pig?
or a force fed duck used for foie gras?
I'm sure there are others!?

Simeon said:
I'm pretty sure there are new laws being introduces in the UK regarding the wellfare of farmed chickens.
Foie gras would certainly be illegal in the UK

JC said:
I'd imagine a battery farmed chicken suffers a lot more than this pig?
or a force fed duck used for foie gras?
I'm sure there are others!?

JC said:My point was more that, many condeming these pics will then eat battery farmed eggs

You're either against animals being mistreated or your not, you cant really pick and choose IMO when mistreatment is seen as palatable

I dont like the idea of any animal being in distress, but I cant give that much of a f**k in reality, as I'll eat battery farmed eggs. Hence, why I didnt comment on the pics....

MattD90 said:
Can't argue with that, people need to be more aware of what their food has been through before it gets to aisle 2 tesco