2 thoughts on ““Don’t Talk to Me About Peace and Non-violence…””
Absolutely. The exploitation and suffering of farmed animals is probably the greatest being inflicted on any creatures on this earth. These innocent animals are abused on small farms and factory farms, on transport trucks, and in slaughter houses. Most anti-cruelty laws do not apply to them. What most people would consider serious abuse falls under “standard” practices of agriculture, including branding, tail cutting, castrating, often without anesthetics, horn cutting, takes calves away from dairy cows and confining them in tiny crates to create veal. It includes sending sick and injured cattle, often dragged onto trucks to endure hours of travel, to slaughter. The useless United States Department of Agriculture has been tasked with overseeing the treatment of farm animals and looks the other way when gross abuse occurs (not wanting to interfere with business).
Chickens are not included in any kind of welfare laws, and so they are crammed into tiny spaces, their beaks are cut to prevent pecking injuries, and they are forced to lay as many eggs as possible. Male chicks, who obviously do not lay eggs, are killed, often by throwing them into sacks or containers to suffocate or literally grinding them up. When the chickens are too worn out to continue egg production, they are also placed on trucks, no matter what the weather, and sent to slaughter, which is brutal. When groups such as Mercy For Animals or Compassion Over Killing, fighting the abuse of farmed animals, do undercover investigations, they find it difficult to get the results on news programs because the videos are “too graphic” and may offend or upset people. In fact, the undercover investigations have led to the attempt to pass “ag-gag” laws to criminalize the whistleblowers rather than the abusers. That reveals the cynicism and greed of the meat industry. Apparently now this country is even sending live animals crammed on ships to oversea countries for slaughter–so having to endure the terrible travel and then the killing in countries whose methods are even worse than ours.
I wish we could get massive protests for these poor souls until more people had to face the horrors the animals experience to get steak on their plates and until more people demand an end to the torture. Right now indifference of the public, the belief that animals are here only for our profit and pleasure, and greed of the producers allow the suffering and death to continue.
Exposing the Big Game 
Absolutely. The exploitation and suffering of farmed animals is probably the greatest being inflicted on any creatures on this earth. These innocent animals are abused on small farms and factory farms, on transport trucks, and in slaughter houses. Most anti-cruelty laws do not apply to them. What most people would consider serious abuse falls under “standard” practices of agriculture, including branding, tail cutting, castrating, often without anesthetics, horn cutting, takes calves away from dairy cows and confining them in tiny crates to create veal. It includes sending sick and injured cattle, often dragged onto trucks to endure hours of travel, to slaughter. The useless United States Department of Agriculture has been tasked with overseeing the treatment of farm animals and looks the other way when gross abuse occurs (not wanting to interfere with business).
Chickens are not included in any kind of welfare laws, and so they are crammed into tiny spaces, their beaks are cut to prevent pecking injuries, and they are forced to lay as many eggs as possible. Male chicks, who obviously do not lay eggs, are killed, often by throwing them into sacks or containers to suffocate or literally grinding them up. When the chickens are too worn out to continue egg production, they are also placed on trucks, no matter what the weather, and sent to slaughter, which is brutal. When groups such as Mercy For Animals or Compassion Over Killing, fighting the abuse of farmed animals, do undercover investigations, they find it difficult to get the results on news programs because the videos are “too graphic” and may offend or upset people. In fact, the undercover investigations have led to the attempt to pass “ag-gag” laws to criminalize the whistleblowers rather than the abusers. That reveals the cynicism and greed of the meat industry. Apparently now this country is even sending live animals crammed on ships to oversea countries for slaughter–so having to endure the terrible travel and then the killing in countries whose methods are even worse than ours.
I wish we could get massive protests for these poor souls until more people had to face the horrors the animals experience to get steak on their plates and until more people demand an end to the torture. Right now indifference of the public, the belief that animals are here only for our profit and pleasure, and greed of the producers allow the suffering and death to continue.
All so true.