Myth # 25 : " But I ’ m a meat eater . Mmmmm ... Bacon !"
Myth # 25 : " But I ’ m a meat eater . Mmmmm ... Bacon !"
Seriously ?!? Well , it just might interest you to know that the vast majority of the pigs ( that are noticeably more intelligent than – and just as self-aware as – your beloved dog ) that go into your “ bacon ” were born into truly horrific lives – with their tails sheared off and their teeth cut out and their testicles torn away ( all without anesthesia ); with them isolated from their mother ' s embrace & consolations ; with them confined in overcrowded pens or cages ; with them wallowing in the unbearable stench of their own urine & feces ; with them oftentimes personally witnessing the barbaric murder of their friends ; with them ultimately being strung up by their hind legs & having their own throats slit ( often while still partially or even fully conscious ) …
And that is just what happens to the pigs that are deemed “ profitable ” by the pig farmer . Unwanted piglets meet an equally vicious fate – more often than not getting " thumped "; a process whereby workers pick them up by their hind legs , whirl them over their shoulders , and then bash their heads onto a concrete floor . Here is a slaughterhouse worker describing this horrific – yet standard – practice :
' We just swing them , thump them , and then toss them aside . After you ' ve thumped ten , twelve , fourteen of them , you stack them up . If some are still alive , you do it all over again ... There ' ve been times I ' ve walked in and pigs would be running around with an eyeball hanging down the side of their face , just bleeding like crazy , or their jaw would be broken . I ' ve seen them with broken backs still trying to get up . Some of these guys thump them , then just stand on top of their throat , smashing their jaw and everything , until they die . If you get a pig that can ’ t move , you take a meat hook , stick it into his anus and drag him backwards . A lot of times the meat hook rips out of the bunghole ... If the pig collapses near the front , you shove a meat hook into his cheek and drag him forward . I ’ ve seen sows being beaten with gate rods , stomped on , and dragged having their throats slowly cut with a tiny scalpel while they were still fully conscious and moaning .''*
And all this just because you want to eat bacon … Again , I earnestly ask : Seriously ?!?
Current status of this Myth : Discredited Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
* excerpt from Gail Eisnitz ' s book Slaughterhouse : The Shocking Story of Greed , Neglect , and Inhumane Treatment inside the U . S . Meat Industry , a work that " penetrates the veil of psychic numbing that keeps us oblivious to the real truth behind modern meat . If you want to remain a prisoner of your own ignorance , don ' t read it . It will make you aware . It will wake you up . It will change your life ." ( quote from John Robbins )
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