Activists Hold Funeral For Frozen Chicken In Store

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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm an animal rights activist. I'm familiar with the group who performed this demonstration and interact with their members on a weekly basis. I know the members of this forum are smart people who realize that eating animal parts and secretions is terribly detrimental to our personal health and that animal agriculture is destroying the planet. I mean, you're all well-educated woke folks, so I don't need to explain all this in detail.

That said, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you all a quick question. I don't personally involve myself in these supermarket funerals because I'm not sure about the efficacy of these sort of demonstrations. I see a couple "lol's" and "wtf's" and frankly that's sort of what I expect. But I wonder, what sort of demonstration do you believe would be helpful in getting you to abandon the comfort of your cognitive dissonance to start making better choices based on facts and logic, rather than defaulting to the social programming with which you've been raised?

Out of context, what the guy in the funeral procession preaches actually doesn't sound crazy to me. I actually can empathize and agree with the sentiment.

The problem is, in the context of it all preaching those words to people who culturally have been indoctrinated to eat meat, and view those bundles of wrapped chickens as the begining and end of all not realizing even what a chicken looks like with feathers that runs around as a living creature etc., it's fruitless.

Especially trying to express the feelings of these little bundles of food that are manufactured for consumption that hardly even resemble an animal at all... The majority of people cannot empathize with it. The ones who might are not going to break rank in the store and join in the protest either, as they would be ridiculed mercilessly as the protesters are.

The only way to convince people that eating meats is bad, is flood them with information regarding WHY it's bad for THEM. Sadly, the majority of people don't give a shit about those chickens. But, they do give a shit about their own lives.

As Cecily said, you can flood their brains with images and stories of how the animals are slaughtered as that can work for the few meat eaters who actually love animals and can empathize with the animals to sway their desire to eat processed meats.