MelodicMetalGod
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As a result of discussions in another thread (https://www.hayabusa.org/forum/random-thoughts/149104-farm-your-fridge.html) started by another member, I am compelled to create this thread to raise awareness of the animal cruelty issues that I believe most of us would rather not support if we were fully informed on the matter.
Please, educate yourself on the matter so that you can make your own fully informed decisions.
Realize that the cruelty to farm animals is not simply the killing of animals for food. It is much more insidious than that and in the factory farming system, which provides virtually all animal products found in the average grocery store, the pain and suffering for the animals begins at birth and ends with their passing. In between they are routinely subjected to living conditions that prevent any natural life or behavior whatsoever, often mutilated for the sake of the industry, sometimes abused by callous workers but virtually always prevented from a life that is free of pain and suffering and often the killing process is less than humane as well.
Here's some ways to get started in the learning process:
Just google images for factory farming:
factory farming - Google Search
I think most of us would agree that there are plenty of images that we would find not in keeping with our beliefs regarding any animal. Meat eater or not, none of us wish to inflict cruelty on another living thing.
Visit the Farm Sanctuary website:
Farm Sanctuary | Watkins Glen, NY
This site will clearly state the issues and options to reduce cruelty to these animals for both meat eaters and non-meat eaters.
Some of the more exteme examples of factory farming cruelty to animals includes:
DEBEAKING of Laying Hens: In order to reduce injuries resulting from excessive pecking — an aberrant behavior that occurs when the confined hens are bored and frustrated — practically all laying hens have part of their beaks cut off. Debeaking is a painful procedure that involves cutting through bone, cartilage, and soft tissue.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
GESTATION CRATING of Sows (mother pigs): After being impregnated, the sows are confined in gestation crates – small metal pens just 2 feet wide that prevent sows from turning around or even lying down comfortably.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
INTENSIVE PRODUCTION METHODS for Dairy Cows: The abuse wreaked upon the bodies of dairy cows is so intense that the dairy industry also is a huge source of "downed animals" — animals who are so sick or injured that they are unable to walk even stand. Investigators have documented downed animals routinely being beaten, dragged, or pushed with bulldozers in attempts to move them to slaughter.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
INHUMANE SLAUGHTER of Cows - ""They die, said Moreno, piece by piece..."
This is detailed in an April 2001 Washington Post article, which describes typical slaughterplant conditions:
The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren't.
They blink. They make noises, he said softly. The head moves, the eyes are wide and looking around. Still Moreno would cut. On bad days, he says, dozens of animals reached his station clearly alive and conscious. Some would survive as far as the tail cutter, the belly ripper, the hide puller. They die, said Moreno, piece by piece...
"In plants all over the United States, this happens on a daily basis," said Lester Friedlander, a veterinarian and formerly chief government inspector at a Pennsylvania hamburger plant. "I've seen it happen. And I've talked to other veterinarians. They feel it's out of control."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees the treatment of animals in meat plants, but enforcement of the law varies dramatically. While a few plants have been forced to halt production for a few hours because of alleged animal cruelty, such sanctions are rare.
Reaction to the Washington Post investigative piece and others like it precipitated a Congressional resolution reiterating the importance of the Humane Slaughter Act, but to date, there is little if any indication that the situation for animals in slaughterhouses has appreciably improved.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
With respect to all,
Melodic
Please, educate yourself on the matter so that you can make your own fully informed decisions.
Realize that the cruelty to farm animals is not simply the killing of animals for food. It is much more insidious than that and in the factory farming system, which provides virtually all animal products found in the average grocery store, the pain and suffering for the animals begins at birth and ends with their passing. In between they are routinely subjected to living conditions that prevent any natural life or behavior whatsoever, often mutilated for the sake of the industry, sometimes abused by callous workers but virtually always prevented from a life that is free of pain and suffering and often the killing process is less than humane as well.
Here's some ways to get started in the learning process:
Just google images for factory farming:
factory farming - Google Search
I think most of us would agree that there are plenty of images that we would find not in keeping with our beliefs regarding any animal. Meat eater or not, none of us wish to inflict cruelty on another living thing.
Visit the Farm Sanctuary website:
Farm Sanctuary | Watkins Glen, NY
This site will clearly state the issues and options to reduce cruelty to these animals for both meat eaters and non-meat eaters.
Some of the more exteme examples of factory farming cruelty to animals includes:
DEBEAKING of Laying Hens: In order to reduce injuries resulting from excessive pecking — an aberrant behavior that occurs when the confined hens are bored and frustrated — practically all laying hens have part of their beaks cut off. Debeaking is a painful procedure that involves cutting through bone, cartilage, and soft tissue.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
GESTATION CRATING of Sows (mother pigs): After being impregnated, the sows are confined in gestation crates – small metal pens just 2 feet wide that prevent sows from turning around or even lying down comfortably.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
INTENSIVE PRODUCTION METHODS for Dairy Cows: The abuse wreaked upon the bodies of dairy cows is so intense that the dairy industry also is a huge source of "downed animals" — animals who are so sick or injured that they are unable to walk even stand. Investigators have documented downed animals routinely being beaten, dragged, or pushed with bulldozers in attempts to move them to slaughter.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
INHUMANE SLAUGHTER of Cows - ""They die, said Moreno, piece by piece..."
This is detailed in an April 2001 Washington Post article, which describes typical slaughterplant conditions:
The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren't.
They blink. They make noises, he said softly. The head moves, the eyes are wide and looking around. Still Moreno would cut. On bad days, he says, dozens of animals reached his station clearly alive and conscious. Some would survive as far as the tail cutter, the belly ripper, the hide puller. They die, said Moreno, piece by piece...
"In plants all over the United States, this happens on a daily basis," said Lester Friedlander, a veterinarian and formerly chief government inspector at a Pennsylvania hamburger plant. "I've seen it happen. And I've talked to other veterinarians. They feel it's out of control."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees the treatment of animals in meat plants, but enforcement of the law varies dramatically. While a few plants have been forced to halt production for a few hours because of alleged animal cruelty, such sanctions are rare.
Reaction to the Washington Post investigative piece and others like it precipitated a Congressional resolution reiterating the importance of the Humane Slaughter Act, but to date, there is little if any indication that the situation for animals in slaughterhouses has appreciably improved.
Learn more here: Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
With respect to all,
Melodic
