Roadhouse to Slaughter ~ For your "humane" meat

Dying to Live

Many who speak of "humane" meat are really referring to the conditions under which animals are raised—not killed. And there's a big difference. When their bodies are fat enough for the dinner table, spent and overused from producing eggs and milk, and no longer useful in the way they were meant to be, as in the case of male studs on dairy farms, animals from both conventional and "humane" farms are all transported (first to the feedlot in the case of "beef cattle") to the slaughterhouse. The transportation process is excruciating and often fatal. The only law designed to "protect" animals in transport does not pertain to 95% of the animals killed for human consumption, as birds and rabbits (all classified as "poultry" are not protected). As a result, in transport, animals are forced to endure oppressive heat, bitter cold, stress, overcrowding, and respiratory problems from ammonia-laden urine.

Regardless of how they're raised, all animals killed for the refrigerated aisles of the grocery store are sent to mechanized slaughterhouses where their lives are brutally ended. By law, animals must be slaughtered at USDA-certified facilities, where horrific acts of cruelty occur on a daily basis. Everyone from federal meat inspectors to slaughterhouse workers have admitted to routinely witnessing the strangling, beating, scalding, skinning, and butchering of live, fully conscious animals. At small farms, where the owners can kill the animals themselves (in the case of birds), every one of them will tell you that, though it was hard in the beginning to slit the throat of the animals, it gets easier after awhile. I don't believe anyone would agree that it's healthy to detach and compartmentalize our emotions and become desensitized to violence and suffering. Compassionate people all have the same goal: the elimination of oppression, exploitation, and violence. Abuse, violence, cruelty -- they all spring from the same source, and they all have the same effect -- more abuse, more violence, more cruelty. The link between cruelty to animals and violence toward people has been well established

When we tell ourselves we're eating meat from "humanely raised animals," we're leaving out a huge part of the equation. The slaughtering of an animal is a bloody and violent act, and death does not come easy for those who want to live.

http://www.satyamag.com/sept06/goodre...

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[stuf2007]

You've got to be ¤¤#ing me! And i thought Michael Moore had a problem with being objective. Hah. Im sorry about the cows but the way you made this video is far more sickening. "We will acknowledge her soft weeping and her dismal sighs." ?? gtfo

[dandelion45]

Meat was once a necessity for survival today we learn that not only are man designed for plants but meat is poison for human body.

[beautifulangel2]

I agree with you dandelion. Killing is not a humane thing.Humans are smart enough to understand that what is right and what is wrong.Lions, Tigers etc have limited minds and they only have senses to eat,sleep and hunt for food.

[dandelion45]

It's called "Smaointe" in the Shepherds Moon CD by Enya. Thank you :)

[dandelion45]

Lion is a carnivore that needs to kill in order to survive. Man is not anatomically designed for meat but for plants so we have no reason to kill any animals and/or consume meat and dairy.

[dandelion45]

No, NOT "if everyone was a hunter" or we will all be in danger of flying bullets and arrows its bad enough that hunters are shooting each other, themselves and even their own children and you expect the whole civilization to go out and kill for meat? How about going vegan because our body is design for plants not for meat. Also you do consume dairy don't you?

[HotEmoGrl101]

Im goin veggie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wardymcwardfish]

I am not a herbivore thank you!

[wardymcwardfish]

I bet that every gazelle is humanely euthanized by a lion!

[wardymcwardfish]

My mind is the same as those that came before me (and you) for the last 15,000 years; is that natural?

[SherbiS00]

i wish every time i watch these videos that those ppls that is doing this to the inocent animals would be in their place to feel how it is to get brutally killed like that