Originally Posted by POed-poster

But if the meat is rotting, it NEEDS to be thrown out. The stores where I shop will dramatically reduce the price of meat that is approaching the expiration date. They at least TRY to sell it. The ethical treatment of animals in slaughter houses is a different matter, on which you have a point. But in this case, the items were nonperishable. The SOLE reason they were destroyed was to prevent people from picking them out of the trash. There was no reason OTHER THAN GREED to destroy them.