Cows, sheep, pigs, and even horses(when they were slaughtered but luckly it has been banned in the U.S. to kill horses for human consumption as of this year. YAY!) are all slaughtered the same. They are forced to stand in long lines after having gone a day or more without food or water, to wait their turn to be shoved into a 'knock box' and be shot in the head with a 'captive bolt gun' which sends a metal spike through their skull and into their brain rendering them unconcious,.....sometimes. Other times the animal is not properly shot and is still concious when he/she is hoisted by one hind leg to dangle and then have his/her throat slit and left to bleed to death. They do this to get all the blood out of the animal but in my opinion it is just plain cruel to let ANYTHING bleed to death and suffer. After the animal has bled to death he/she is then cut up and must I keep going?
Its not just the method in which the animals are slaughtered but the fact that those animals must stand in a line and watch the animal before them get killed. All animals are acutely aware of sounds, smells, of each other and therefore they can sense the fear and terror in each other while smelling the blood of their own kind being killed. Yeah, I don't know about you but if I was in a place where I could smell my own kind being killed and sense their fear I would be pretty stressed and freaked. I'd most likely have a heart-attack and solve the whole 'killing-me' problem. Either that or I would try busting out and kill myself on the fence.
Argue with me all you like. Argue with Jaki and me all you like. You WON'T win.
Love,
~Lone Wolf~ P.S. I'm posting a pic of a horse knocked out in a knock-box. Well, INJURED, not really knocked out on my blog if you're interested.
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I hate the irony of the word inhumane. The root of it is human, implying caring and tenderness yet humans are capable of and have done such horrible things as this. How can we stand to use the word like it is.
Not like this isn't an issue to be addressed, but why has the blog turned into an animal cruelty debate?
I know. I was stating that just a minute ago to Dark Night. LOL!
Stating that it is now an animal cruelty debate or the irony of inhumane part?
Both. Very much both.
Its slightly amusing too.
Do you know when we can play tennis again, saturday or sunday?
hmmm...I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure that we will even be able to play either. Sorry.
Awww...
Why does school have to start monday? And why do they have to make us test after winter break too.
I like my icon by the way
but I don't think we should eat hamsters as riceballs!!!! so it's not supposed to be like that!!!
i just think its kawaii
ONIGIRI-CHAN!!!!
Sorry i couldn't stop myself.
LOL! Hai, maybe they can't find a better way. I still refuse to eat meat though, not until we stop killing them the way we do and stop over-killing them. We throw way too much meat away.
I suppose that that's not entirely true either cuz' meat makes me sick. Oh well.
Horses were first provided as an animal of burden - not an animal to eat. Horses were created as a help to humans - not as food.
I don't eat chicken for the simple reason that I saw one get slaughtered - they chop its head off and it runs around with blood splurting out until it drops dead. Disgusting! I was 8 years old when I witnessed this and have been repulsed by chicken ever since.
(as long as i don't watch a cow or pig die, i should be fine eating those 2 meats!)
Err...usually when I eat meat of any kind, I don't think about whether I've seen the animal being slaughtered or not...-.o
but meat is...*sniff* good...and I think it's impossible for me to ever stop eating meat...
sorry...:(
I know what you mean. When I first stopped eating meat I thought that i was gonna die without bacon and beef jerkey. I still mis beef jerkey. I use to take it with me when I rode my horse. *sigh* I'll get over it.
:( aww
well anyways, if I tried to become all-veggie, my parents would kill me
literally
with words.
-.o
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