Guest guest Posted November 20, 2000 Report Share Posted November 20, 2000 >>Peaches passed on a letter written by Fran ,<rk41304 http://www.hua.org which stated.... >>The other issue is this, there are various rumors circulating about the treatment of livestock in the USA, bear in mind that many of these are indeed just rumors. .....It is after all a business, and if the animals were not cared for, well fed, or were allowed to sicken it would be money out of the ranchers pocket. ++With all due respect, this is rubbish. Breeding animals for money and meat consumption is a cruel business in ANY country. The same cruel intent applies to which ever species of animal is being sent to be butchered - whether it be dogs in China or Korea or pigs or sheep in the USA. Most of these animals do not want to die and meat IS murder. Those involved in killing live animals to eat their flesh are involved in the most cruel and barbaric industries in the world. Many activists have infiltrated USA slaughterhouses and have been shocked at what they have seen. The speed of the automated killing and dismembering process is such that many animals are not stunned properly and die horrible and excruciating deaths. People who eat meat and profess to care about animal welfare are the biggest hypocrites of them all. Eating dead animals deprives those animals of their lives. By supporting the meat industry, meat eaters are supporting the cruelest industry in the world. " No matter how much new technology is developed, and no matter how nicely the meat is packaged, the central facts of the meat business cannot be changed. This is an industry built around noisy, foul smelling animals whose fate is to have an eight inch long pin fired into their foreheads at point blank range. Their blood and guts will spill forth on the killing floor, and their carcasses will be stripped and carved and chopped during a process that, although it is governed by " humane slaughter " laws, can be nothing but gross and brutal. " ..from The Prime Rip by Swanson and Schultz " I discovered animal rights in 1978, when I first entered a slaughterhouse and witnessed the violent deaths of terrified dairy cows. pigs and chickens. What I saw changed my life. " ... one of the founders of PETA. For an up to date read on the the cruelty of killing animals for their flesh, buy yourself Gail Eisnitz' book " Slaughterhouse " for Christmas (this should be on every meat eater's bookshelf). Review (condensed) ********* http://www.upc-online.org/fall98/slaughter_review.html I thought I was going to have a hard time reading Gail Eisnitz' book Slaughterhouse, but as soon as I started reading, I was drawn into this " shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the U.S. meat industry. " " Carol Taylor " is a fake name--the undercover identity of " I, Gail Eisnitz, " who is boldly sneaking around in Florida chasing down a notorious animal abuser for arrest. Her search leads her to the Slaughterhouse. The Ninth Circle of Hell in Slaughterhouse is the kill floor. Consider a horse who doesn't want to die. " 'You can't spend fifteen or twenty minutes on one horse. You have to do whatever you can to get him in that box to get him skinned--fast. You can't let one horse stop you from making money.' " (Later) " 'What about the inspector?' I asked. 'Does he ever see any of this?' " 'Yes.' ......... For me, the heart of the book is the interview with Ed Van Winkle, a pig-sticker described by men who have worked with him as " the most ferocious of the stickers. " He says, " 'The worst thing, worse than the physical danger, is the emotional toll. If you work in that stick pit for any period of time, you develop an attitude that lets you kill things but doesn't let you care. You may look a hog in the eye that's walking around down in the blood pit with you and think, God, that really isn't a bad-looking animal. You may want to pet it. Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them--beat them to death with a pipe. I can't care.' " ---------- ---- The book focuses on mammals, rather than on the birds who make up the 95 percent of animals slaughtered for food. (While 35 million cattle are slaughtered each year in the United States, 35 million chickens are slaughtered every day.) However, Slaughterhouse does provide a lot of information about the poultry industry, as in these comments by inspectors Macias and Carney: " 'Poultry is exempt from coverage under the Humane Slaughter Act, right?' I asked. " 'Correct,' Carney said. 'It's not humanely slaughtered. Because they're going into the scald tanks still alive, breathing and sucking in the water.' " Macias nodded. 'Most of them are still alive when they go into that tank and they fill their lungs. That's a reason for the high contamination.' " 'The kicker,' Carney said, 'is that when that chicken is exported to Canada, inspectors have to sign off on an export certificate that says it's been humanely slaughtered. We have no control over how they're slaughtered. None whatsoever.' ---------- --- Many animals, including their heads, are skinned alive, and rotten chicken flesh is mixed with other meat and sold for baby food. Also, about a hundred individuals are ground up in every hamburger. Slaughterhouse shows the reader what is happening, without telling us what to do. In a manner akin to the archetype of the Ancient Mariner, Eisnitz has journeyed through hell, " And now I am telling the world. " If, vicariously, we could " become " these animals, the workers, and Eisnitz herself, perhaps history would stop repeating itself. ---------- ---- Gail A. Eisnitz is a cruelty investigator for the Humane Farming Association, San Francisco, CA. www.hfa.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 20, 2000 Report Share Posted November 20, 2000 This is a rediculous statement......you said the magic words there... " this is a business " <------ and in this business the bottom line is money.....and the sad truth is whether or not the animals are sick, treated humanely, or fed correctly, the " ranchers " will still receive their money.....jeez..they get money for downer cattle for christ's sake...what makes you think they give a hoot about the milking cow with pus oozing out of her teats becuase the " rancher " gave her some steroids to pump up the production of milk?? ...they are not rumors or anything like that...there is video footage of the atrocities that go on in these places.....we are so far beyond rumors its sick...open your eyes and learn the truth......how " nice and humane " do you think a person can be killing chickens at such a fast pace for 10 hours a day???7 days a week???365 days a year?????? Think about it... ---- " bunny " <rabbit wrote: > >>Peaches passed on a letter written by Fran ,<rk41304 > http://www.hua.org which stated.... > > >>The other issue is this, there are various rumors circulating about > the > treatment of livestock in the USA, bear in mind that many of these > are > indeed just rumors. .....It is after all a business, and if the animals > were > not cared for, well fed, or were allowed to sicken it would be money > out of > the ranchers pocket. _________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2000 Report Share Posted November 21, 2000 King5 TV's investigations into the IBP slaughterhouse carnage showed how gory it can get (warning - graphic pics): http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=1386 And after all that, IBP got away scotfree - when state and federal investigators came for an inspection, their entry was delayed at the gate on frivolous grounds. http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=1980 There are a few more links on the king5 site covering the IBP story. Srikanth --- bunny <rabbit wrote: > >>Peaches passed on a letter written by Fran ,<rk41304 > http://www.hua.org which stated.... > > >>The other issue is this, there are various rumors circulating about > the > treatment of livestock in the USA, bear in mind that many of these > are > indeed just rumors. .....It is after all a business, and if the > animals were > not cared for, well fed, or were allowed to sicken it would be money > out of > the ranchers pocket. > Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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