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Justify meat-eating all you want, it is because of your primitive Darwinian views of "survival of the fittest" and an amoral stance of "might makes right".
Well, you will come to terms with the horrors of the kill floor in the typical slaughter facility which provides you your entree.
Please note, what I am about to post is not an aberration, but is typical of what goes on in the factory farm industry when it is time to turn a living thing into a commodity for profit:
This is an excerpt (which I have no problem typing in full because you would have to buy the book/be in a bookstore to read it) from Jonathan Foer's brilliant, enlightening, and disturbing book Eating Animals:
At a typical slaughter facility, cattle are led through a chute into a knocking box - usually a large cylindrical hold through which the head poker. The stun operator, or "knocker," presses a large pneumatic gun between the cow's eyes. A steel bolt shoots into the cow's skull, usually rendering the cow unconscious or causing death. Sometimes the bolt only dazes the animal, which remains conscious or wakes up while being processed.
The effectiveness of "knocking" is reduced because some plant mangers believe that animals can become 'too dead' and therefore, because their hearts are not pumping, bleed out too slowly. It's important for plants to have a quick bleed-out time for efficiency and because blood left in the meat produces bacterial growth which reduces shelf life. As a result, plants deliberately choose less-effective knocking methods. The side effect is that many animals wake up during processing. No jokes here, and no turning away. Let's say what we mean: animals are bled, skinned, and dismembered while conscious...
Temple Grandin has argued that ordinary people can become sadistic from the dehumanizing work of constant slaughter. Sometimes animals are not knocked at all. In one affidavit, a worker explained, "I've seen thousands of cows go through the slaughter process alive...The cows get seven minutes of being cut, stripped and partially gutted while alive. I've been at the point where all the hide is stripped to the neck and the cow was alive..."
Still liking that medium-rare steak? Chew on this:
Another worker: "I'd come home and be in a bad mood. Yell at the kids and stuff like that. One time I got really upset. A three-year-old cow was walking through the kill alley. She was having a calf there. I knew she was going to die, so I pulled the calf out. Wow, did my boss get mad! They call these calves 'slunks.' They use the blood for cancer research. And he wanted that calf. What they usually do is when the cow's guts fall on the gut table, the workers go along and rip the uterus open and pull living calves out. It's nothing to have a cow hanging up in front of you and you see a calf inside kicking, trying to get out...
All this, so you can whet your palate with animal flesh. Enjoy your next trip to Outback!
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us of our meat eating..could you do something about the Nukes..thanks.
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