{"id":6829,"date":"2010-07-15T00:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2010-07-15T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:12:21","slug":"the-half-truths-of-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/the-half-truths-of-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Half-Truths of Mainstream Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/131.jpg?resize=101%2C123\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/131.jpg?w=101&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/131.jpg?resize=79%2C96&amp;ssl=1 79w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A TV program showed how some \u2018special cows\u2019 were reared with good food  and even music \u2013 to make them feel relaxed. They are even periodically massaged! Brings another new meaning to &#8216;creature comforts&#8217;? There  are also stringent procedures for ensuring tip-top hygiene to keep the cows  disease-free&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But ultimately, for whose benefit? To create more tender beef for humans.  Hypocrisy at work really. Who wants a &#8216;heavenly&#8217; life followed by hellish suffering? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The  interviewed farmer express regret that the cows have to be killed. But if the regret  is genuine, why farm them on, only to continually kill them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As expected, the program showed the cows while they are healthy and  alive and how their meat was processed. Yes, the crucial part of how they are murdered  is skipped. This is TV after all, sanitised for general consumption and  entertainment, for concealing the harsh truths of how animals become meat. Murder is hardly easy to  consume or be entertaining. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This alone gives me a good reason to not give  mainstream media too much credibility when it comes to presenting the whole truth. <\/span>What is the program supposed to do? Inculcate compassion? Tempt audience to go for the beef? Sigh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TV program showed how some \u2018special cows\u2019 were reared with good food and even music \u2013 to make them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,74],"tags":[131,156],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-veganism","tag-animal-welfare","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-26-id","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}