All those who eat meat should take an interest in the slaughter process to fully understand it. Animal products contain the purest and most natural form of protein. If you choose to live without animal products good for you but we should all be able to respect that people have different views. The US ranks D in the humane treatment of animals because of corporate greed.
Thats not going to change. To think we have to take a life every time we have a Meal is the most ridiculous thought process ever!!! Flesh should not eat the flesh! The simple fact is it is easy to live healthily without murdering animals.
They ought to listen to that gut feeling of sadness and stop killing. And that says it all. If a dog or cat is kicked to death, the majority are horrified and demand justice for the poor animal, but those same people are sitting down that evening to a pork pig or hamburger cow dinner, and that is totally justified. There are more scientific facts that prove humans are not intended to eat other beings then justifications for doing so. I thought this article was informative.
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Scott Towne, who stuns the cows, takes pride in his work, but admits that his job sometimes makes him sad. Cows at one of Prather's ranches outside Redding, California, where they are taken during the winter. Stun gun: a CASH Knocker, the device that fires a bolt into the cow's forehead, instantly stunning it.
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View Replies Rosalie Lesh. View Replies 7. How can you be so callous, animals have feelings and feel pain. View Replies 1. But one thing was still attached - their eyeballs. Whenever I walked past that skip, I couldn't help but feel like I had hundreds of pairs of eyes watching me. Some of them were accusing, knowing that I'd participated in their deaths.
Others seemed to be pleading, as if there were some way I could go back in time and save them. It was disgusting, terrifying and heart-breaking, all at the same time. It made me feel guilty. The first time I saw those heads, it took all of my strength not to vomit. I know things like this bothered the other workers, too. I'll never forget the day, after I'd been at the abattoir for a few months, when one of the lads cut into a freshly killed cow to gut her - and out fell the foetus of a calf.
She was pregnant. He immediately started shouting and throwing his arms about. I took him into a meeting room to calm him down - and all he could say was, "It's just not right, it's not right," over and over again. These were hard men, and they rarely showed any emotion. But I could see tears prickling his eyes. Even worse than pregnant cows, though, were the young calves we sometimes had to kill. Many of its members, it says, "are at the forefront of abattoir design with facilities designed to house the animals and help them move around the site with ease and without any pain, distress or suffering".
At the height of the BSE and bovine tuberculosis crises in the s, large groups of animals had to be slaughtered. I worked at the slaughterhouse after , so well after the BSE crisis, but if an animal tested positive for TB they would still bring whole families in to be culled - bulls, heifers and calves. I remember one day in particular, when I'd been there for about a year or so, when we had to slaughter five calves at the same time.
We tried to keep them within the rails of the pens, but they were so small and bony that they could easily skip out and trot around, slightly wobbly on their newly born legs. They sniffed us, like puppies, because they were young and curious. Some of the boys and I stroked them, and they suckled our fingers. When the time came to kill them, it was tough, both emotionally and physically. Slaughterhouses are designed for slaughtering really large animals, so the stun boxes are normally just about the right size to hold a cow that weighs about a tonne.
When we put the first calf in, it only came about a quarter of a way up the box, if that. We put all five calves in at once. Then we killed them. Afterwards, looking at the dead animals on the ground, the slaughterers were visibly upset. I rarely saw them so vulnerable. Emotions in the abattoir tended to be bottled up.
Nobody talked about their feelings; there was an overwhelming sense that you weren't allowed to show weakness. Plus, there were a lot of workers who wouldn't have been able to talk about their feelings to the rest of us even if they'd wanted to.
Many were migrant workers, predominantly from Eastern Europe, whose English wasn't good enough for them to seek help if they were struggling. A lot of the men I was working with were also moonlighting elsewhere - they'd finish their 10 or 11 hours at the abattoir before going on to another job - and exhaustion often took its toll.
Some developed alcohol problems, often coming into work smelling strongly of drink. Others became addicted to energy drinks, and more than one had a heart attack. These drinks were then removed from the abattoir vending machines, but people would still bring them in from home and drink them secretly in their cars.
I don't take any pleasure in what we're doing, but if I can do it as quietly and professionally as possible, then I think we've achieved something. Just be professional, do it, then switch off - and then, when we've finished work, go home and be a normal person. Just prior to slaughter, animals are walked up a raceway into the abattoir where they enter the stunning box.
This box separates the animal off from the rest of the animals in the raceway. Within seconds of entering this box, an operator stuns the animal. With sheep or pigs, this may be an electrical stun. With cattle, this may be a captive bolt. Both devices are aimed at the brain. Pigs may also be stunned using carbon dioxide. This stunning process has as its primary purpose to render the animal unconscious and insensible to pain before being bled out.
Because the animal has been stunned, it is unconscious and does not feel or experience the shackling or sticking process. The animal should not regain consciousness or sensibility before dying due to loss of blood.
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