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The Time I "Met my Meat"

After reading about the cruelties lobsters face during the Maine Lobsterfest, I started wondering of any other animals are subjected to cruelties like this, and decided to watch the video mentioned in the passage, "Meet Your Meat", and the graphic scenes I saw horrified me.

WARNING: Content described is extremely graphic.

Chickens and Turkeys
In many of the facilities used to raise chickens for our gluttonous habits, these poor birds are forced to live in conditions I can only describe as hellish. They are crammed into little cages and areas where they can hardly walk, let alone find food and water containers that  rarely put out. The drugs they give to the birds to make them grow larger and big enough for our dinner, are often used so much that the bird's legs buckle under the weight. As I watched, they showed how chickens are loaded onto the trucks for slaughter. They aren't carefully corralled onto big, air conditioned transport vehicles, but instead thrown by their feet like bags of potatoes, with no regards to the frantic clucking and screaming of the terrified birds.

Cows
The cows used for meat are also pumped full of growth hormones, and as a result, many can't even walk onto the truck for the trip to the slaughter house. The females, used for milk, are considered " milk machines" and are attached to actual machines that painfully extract the milk from the cattle. And to keep the cows producing, they impregnate them once a year, but after the calves are born, they are taken from their mothers and either prepped for milking, or if the calve is a male, sent to a veal farmer, who in turn locks the poor cow in a cage for the rest of its life, unable to ever see the light of day.
When in the slaughterhouse, the cows are hung upside down by their feet and cut at the neck, and have their blood drain out, while still alive.

Pigs
For a pig, it gets even worse. As a piglet, their tails, ears, and external genitalia are cut off, with no anesthetic at all. If a pig is not growing fast enough, one of the demons that work at these places will take the pig by its feet, and kill it by repeatedly overhand slamming it into a concrete floor, all the while the pig squealing and screaming for mercy. But mercy never comes. Perhaps the worst part is the fact that they will boil the pigs alive, in order to remove the hair.

After watching this gruesome video, I wondered how this could happen. Even after this documentary came out, it seems like no one will do anything. No, I will not go vegan, because statistically, that will not do anything. But I do think there has to be some way to fix this. End this.

If you have ideas, put them in the comments and I will be glad to hear your thoughts on this tragic matter.

Click here to watch the video, "Meet Your Meat"

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  1. Great post Xander! I like your call to action at the end!

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