Man suffers heart attack while eating at Heart Attack Grill

[jsmirman]

34. Or the torture burger stacked on a torture burger slathered in excess

As an animal advocate, you know what I'm absolutely positive isn't fucking funny? Gluttony.

The American food industry is bad enough. It's just awesome that people don't give a flip that the animals that go into the food on their plates live the entirety of their short lives in miserable conditions that no one on this board (including myself) could handle over a long afternoon without going insane.

Our food system is awash in cruelty, it doesn't give a rip about your health or your safety (deplorably unsanitary conditions, diseased and mistreated pigs, cows, and chickens ending up on your table), and it is destroying our environment (harmful waste poisoning soil and water systems). Things have gotten so out of control that the Minnesota Pork Producers Association has to (help) fund University of Minnesota researchers who are trying to figure out how to deal with the slushy pink pig waste foam that forms atop manure lagoons and congeals under the eaves of factory barn roofs and THEN EXPLODES ENTIRE BARNS when the trapped methane gases have had enough.

And if you're not absolutely sure where your food came from, it came from one of these exemplars of sociopathic capitalism, corporate greed, and the heck with the consumer economics. By 2007, the top four U.S. pork producers – all practitioners of factory farming – already controlled 66% of the entire market for pig products. A more recent authoritative study on the cattle industry found four companies control more than three quarters of that market. Three companies control more than half the poultry market, and the top ten producers' market share exceeds 75%.

So when people think it's great or hilarious to needlessly consume animals that suffered to feed them, it makes me pretty angry.