CONFRONTING THE TRUTH
When we go to the grocery store we see this perfect packages of every type of meat. Of course it seems very normal. What the industries won't show you is how that package got there.
FROM THE BEGINIG:
It starts with the process of feeding them as much as possbile so they can get really fat. Those places are called feedlots. The air there is thick with harmful bacteria that affects the animals in the worst ways. It put them on the constant risk of bovine respiratory disease. It actually kills the four percent of animals annually.
Once, the have reached a certain weight/age, they are ready to go to truck which will take them to the kill floor.
The stress that this process make to the animals is huge. It last days, and so many of them die because they are so weak, it leads them to have a bovine respiratory disease, which is often called "shipping fever".
But, this nightmare does not end just there. After hours or days of traveling in terrible conditions, they forced to enter to the slaughter chutes, waiting for the workers to use electric prods, sticks or paddles. A normal slaughterhouse kills about 400 animals every hour. Even though the Humane Slaughter Act requieres that the animals should be stunned or unconscious prior the process, some of the industries work with the animals fully conscious.
FACTS:
Each year over 4 millon animals die as a result of weather conditions, respiratory problems, and other diseases. Many of them arrive to the slaughterhouse with a cancer on type. It's a painful condition that eats aways their eyes and some part of their heads.
Animals "husbandry" involves some extremely paintful mutilation on animals. Usually, this process is donde by untrained workers without any anesthetics. This act includes: burning or shearing off calves' horn buds, castration, branding, and wattling.
Many industries forcibly separate mother and child when he was just born. This causes their mother to not wanting to eat because they are so depressed. And of courses, that put them on terrible treatments to force them to eat.
Since these animals are not accustomed to be around humans, they are handled roughly. When they are forced to get in truck they are usually kicked, shocked, and prodded.
All of this happens every single day, but no ones talks about it. In order to change our minds, we need to see things clearly and raw. There's not such things as "humane" killing. Muder is murder. It's also important to point out that this problems does NOT just affect animals, but humans too. The contamination these feedlots and slaughterhouses are causing is significantly big. Thecnology has avanced so much, but it's really hard to think that we still need to kill a being in order to please our needs. If people could just stop one minute and think about what they are causing, the world could get a lot better.