This is crazy... to all the bleeding hearts out there, have you ever visited a slaughter house that produces your neatly wrapped, vacuum sealed steaks? How about the poultry farms that produce your drumsticks, thighs and breasts? Have you ever eaten a lobster or crab? Those are generally tossed into boiling water alive.

It seems our culture has an out of site, out of mind attitude toward the animals we eat. With our neatly pre-packaged meats, we are all completely disconnected from the actual slaughtering and butchering process so we don't even have to think of the protein we eat as being part of a living breathing animal. I personally believe that anyone who eats meat on a regular basis should have to kill/hunt/butcher an animal at some point in their lives to understand the process and take at least some ownership for what they're doing by eating meat in the first place. I think if some of you guys had gone through that, you would not be so shocked by these squirming tentacles of a dead squid.

Let me clarify that I'm all for minimizing cruelty of our livestock and the animals we consume and use in general. I just don't think that what was shown in this video is anywhere near the cruelty that all of our livestock currently undergoes to provide us with meat that we never have to think about. So before you get all high and mighty on something you haven't seen before, try to consider what kind of pain and suffering your meat consumption causes on a daily basis. Then you might re-evaluate your viewpoint a bit. It might seem weird, gross or disgusting to you and something that you have no interest in which is totally fine, but don't go putting morals into it.

Now if you're a vegetarian or vegan, I can totally understand you having an issue with this and meat eating in general. But the fact is that most of us eat our meat and enjoy it and that will not change . We just need to work on how we treat the animals we eat.

-- Ed