29 Replies to “Pain Free Burgers”

  1. Congenital Insensitivity to Pain:
    Children with this condition often suffer oral cavity damage both in and around the oral cavity (such as having bitten off the tip of their tongue) or fractures to bones. Unnoticed infections and corneal damage due to foreign objects in the eye are also seen. Because the child cannot feel pain, they may not respond to problems, thus being at a higher risk of more severe diseases or otherwise.

    I can see it now, cows with no lips, broken legs, festering wounds, and more. What idiots.

  2. Pain free is very bad. You know that little disease called leprosy? Well, the horrid scarring and stuff, that’s caused by sufferers feeling no pain in their extremities and constantly injuring themselves.
    If we want “pain free” beef we’re better off to look at standards of practice that promote well being, like shorter transport times and reduced feeding of grains and corn (done for quick growth but causes infections that require anti-biotics). Cattle and pigs can both be transported very long times without food or water, days in fact, can be very crowded and unable to regulate heat. We can easily reduce that kind of suffering, and we can design abattoirs that keep the cattle calm right up to the quick and painless bolt in the head.
    It’s not pain free that we need, it’s humane practices. Of course, the people setting the standards shouldn’t all be vegetarian, as almost everyone in the animal rights/animal welfare groups are.

  3. Kinda makes dying that much worse. Kobe beef.. Wiki.
    In accordance with popular belief, the cattle are fed a beer a day, and they are massaged with sake daily and brushed for setting fur, and fed on grain fodder.[5][6] When the cattle are ready for slaughter, they are slaughtered in a humane and painless customary way in order to keep the meat tender and at its highest flavor.

  4. Rat…quit banging on the ole tamboreen for a second…
    Have you ever in your life fed a animal other than a dog or cat?

  5. New Scientist: finding newer and more imaginative ways to expand perpetuate the reach of Liberal guilt.
    Pain free cow meets Arizona desert pasturage. That’ll work.

  6. I had such a beast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I recommend the PanGalactic Gargle Blaster.

  7. What “the rat” said.
    Animals shouldn’t be put though terrible conditions. One might say that about people, as well. The typical blathering about animals’ suffering is a product of liberalism (its proponents sipping coffee that is NOT fair trade) which is quickly ignored by the need to expand one’s girth. It’s a vicious circle, really.
    Nevertheless, I say: beef. Beef udon…bulgogi…galbi tang…chili…roast beef….
    But I digest. I meant digress….

  8. The Glengarrian at September 3, 2009 9:16 PM ***Rat…quit banging on the ole tamboreen for a second…
    Have you ever in your life fed a animal other than a dog or cat?***
    Not piling on Rat, old boy, but you would certainly benefit by taking micro-biology 101…..
    ****grains and corn (done for quick growth but causes infections that require anti-biotics****
    and trust me on this….you don’t catch STDs from toilet seats either.

  9. the scioentists have cured all man’s illnesses, diseases, and any physical short-comings, so now we need to keep them employed so they stay on top of their game!!!

  10. Does this mean the Iron Chefs could cut them up on-stage, live?
    “Yes, Yukio, the Chairman has pulled out all of the stops tonight as that’s the finest, pain-free kobe beef from the Kumamoto-ken Prefecture being trimmed up right now before our eyes.” “Right you are. And we’re starting with a brisket, I see.”

  11. I love beef, pork, lamb and chicken. But the sight of those chicken trucks (semis) full of live chickens always makes me feel sad.

  12. Don’t know about 4 legged animals,but us 2 legged types in SAR had a saying when rescuing survivors……STFU…..the pain is good for you…it lets you know you are still alive!

  13. Yeah kelly, I know what you mean. I can’t stand thinking they may end up at a Kentucky Fried Chicken……but then I go to Swiss Chalet, and see all the plump little bastards slowly rotating on those spits and I think “well, at least some of them made it to a good home” and all is well with the world again.

  14. I’ve encountered one child with this disorder — was in hospital frequently with severe injuries and died at an early age from complications therefrom. Pain is a biological warning/injury avoidance system that should not be bypassed.

  15. A whole generation-or more-of people have lived without ever being hungary. The thought of killing an animal to live is just beyond most young urban people. Meat comes from the store.
    I guess I would be upset if animals were tortured but, domestic cattle serve a need. And its funny how some posters have commented on the chickens……. that is the meat of choice of many healthy young urban know it all’s. I have one a few doors down. They hate beef and the environmental impact it has but love their chicken.

  16. Justthinkin’
    Back in my meat wagon days, you could pretty well ignore the noisy ones, they self-triaged as not badly hurt. The quiet ones were always the the worst off.

  17. leprosy a.k.a. hansen’s disease works by demolishing the pain receptors in the digits and on up the limb.
    it isn’t the thing that eats away at the tissue; that happens because of chronic untreated injury (because the victim cannot feel ANY pain to react to or care for the injury)

  18. The solution is easy…the people of the world are seemingly so stupid that we should just TELL them that the beef they are eating is from pain-free, free-range animals who all were suffering from incurable heart disease. We just provided assisted suicide and then, to be eco-friendly, we decided to sell the meat rather than let it go to waste.
    Oh, and they shared pastures with unicorns.
    That oughta keep morons happy.

  19. [quote]Lizzie May is in beta [/quote]Bernie
    She failed beta…that tastes like Sh* t.. Anus engineering
    Lizzie just wants a pension and a room at the Fruit fly INN……imagine that!

  20. While this is all very noble,and possibly Nobel, what about all the animals in the world that aren’t raised by humans, and die terrible deaths at the hands of predators in the wild?
    PETA needs to get out into the field and monitor the situation. Perhaps they could go to Africa, the Serengeti, and armed with giant Q-tips, keep the lions away from the elderly Zebras and Wildebeests,who are killed mercilessly by the large, vicious cats of that region.
    They could then die peacefully while the PETANS sing “Kumbata”.
    I’d bet the lions are Republicans or Conservatives, the vicious bastards.

  21. These genetic engineers are working on the wrong problem. If they were really dedicated to reducing animal suffering, they’d be working on breeding cows that actually enjoy being slaughtered and really really want to be eaten.

  22. These genetic engineers are working on the wrong problem. If they were really dedicated to reducing animal suffering, they’d be working on breeding cows that actually enjoy being slaughtered and really really want to be eaten.

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