Eating meat

That's an interesting idea. I'm not too sure how cutting a life short maximises well-being for that which has had it's life cut short, though.  

I get it, guys. I have a labrador that I love. I use to have pet chickens that undoubtedly lived happily. My friend has a pet pig who is intelligent and well natured. I'm on the same page as you guys. My point being, the most harmful things aren't always the most disturbing.  What you want to do is promote the legislation of increasingly humane guidelines in the keeping of livestock. You'll then have meat eating allies. The prices of meat will skyrocket. It's a far more effective means to a vegan society.

Answer to the question: if I didn't care about animals, I'd consider myself an arsehole.
Response to avian existential crises: mm yeah, but how do you know? They can't verbalise their feelings, and therefore we've got no idea that the chicken is staring at an egg and wondering about what came first. Furthermore, plenty of people go through life never questioning their own existence in any great depth, so maybe we should eat them too.

Definition of Humane:        
a) Having or showing compassion or benevolence.
b) Inflicting the minimum of pain

If is physically impossible to take away someones life without causing enormous amounts of fear, stress and pain which is the oppersite of Humane.  Animals are aware of what is happening around them.

For any animal on a farm that is been raised for meat or dairy production there are a few painful procedures they go through. eg: Male animals designed for meat production and not breeding will be castrated, a few common methods used to remove the testicals are: To cut them out without anesthetics or to use masculators. Sheep used for both wool and meat production will have the skin cut off from around there bottoms this is called Mulsing. Dairy cows must give birth once a year to produce milk, this means they have to give birth to a calf. Once the cow gives birth the calf is removed ASAP and either:
a) Killed on the farm with either a bullet to the head or it is hit in the head with a hammer
b) sold to auction where is will be bough for veal production
c) sold directly to the slaughterhouse
d) kept for herd replacement

these calves are less then 5 days old when they are killed or sold. There are many more practices that happen every day but there is a easy solution to prevent all of this physical and mental cruelty from happening.

I beg to differ.  Have you ever seen a animal waiting for its turn at a slaughterhouse? they tremble with fear, call out for help, they try to jump the rails of the stock yards to escape.

Ive seen animals that scared when been rounded up to go on a truck that they are frozen still, ive seen large bullocks jump 6ft high stock yards to escape from heading to the slaughterhouse. They are well aware of what is happening around them.

My argument was a well cared for animal is happy regardless of whether it'll eventually be eaten because it's not aware of its fate. I'm not suggesting that the current way they go about it is pleasant for the animal.

That's my point, doing it a way that's unbeknown to the animal.

i agree that unless you raise the animals yourself they probably wont be treated well.
lots of people think that free range means literally free range when nothing can be further from the truth.
the country's two biggest meat producers inghams and baida who supply supermarket chains, mcdonalds/ kfc have now added an free range label when in fact it isnt deliberatley deceiving consumers.
a producer could label their eggs free range if they kept as many as 20,000 birds per hectare. The current model code allows 1500.
KFC changed its advertising on its website, which also used the term free to roam.

You are all talking in a very self confirming way and have sidestepped every point I've raised. It's almost like being aware of an animal's suffering is a sickness and you are merely clearing your conscience rather than finding the most effective means of alleviating that suffering. I'm for the same cause as you guys,  a suffering-free world. I'm just looking for a better approach, and there undoubtedly is.

I'll probs go vegan (with the exception of free range eggs) when I leave home for uni/tafe/ whatever I do... bye y'all  

I would probably still eat animals if they were raised humanely. But lets be honest, how many humane slaughterhouses are there?

Sounds good, just remember that regardless of what eggs you buy, all male chicks are still ground or gassed alive in the nurseries. So effectively you will be supporting sexism. I recommend investing in your own rescued battery chooks, and use their eggs however you like.

I myself personally don't see the point in eating another being when I dont need to. Also meat is all greasy and eewy.
Do you mean free-range eggs from the supermarket, or actual free-range from someone who keeps the chickens themselves and treats them very kindly? I get my eggs from a lady at my Nannas work, and this lady actually writes down the name of each chicken on the egg they laid.