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burgundia Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:00 am
We deprive others of their lives at our own moral peril."
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Oliver Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:20 pm
Dear Dorota, dear friends,
It was long time since I was active on Mists. I came today just to feel great positive energy from this place and I opened this tread. Such noble feelings, thoughts...Dorota, I know how sincere you are in your fight for animal rights. I would like to contribute with one of my impressionistic writings inspired from my recent mountain trip. Much love for all.
FOOTSTEP
Now I can feel him. I located him. His footstep over the virgin snow. It's been a long search, but now I finally approached him. He was alone, as I was always imagining. In my vision, I saw him running with the freezing wind across the hills of our mountain. Sparkling snow. A sunbeam reflecting spectrum upon his high tail. It's a wild, it's a wildest run: furious jumps over cliffs, spectacular, sharp air turnarounds through the empty space of no tracks, no signs, no artificial sounds, no meanings, and no lies. He is antigravity. My blood is howling.
Run, my boy, run!
Live running and die running. (What an immortal death it would be). Just wild wind and wild run into the wild archspace of absolute freedom, into the desert of pure pleasure. And then, he would suddenly jump into the snow, rolling over, roughly sliding. Splendiferous explosion of whiteness. Ice is burning, people! Then he stands, for a few seconds he is a moveless monument encircled by white cloud, a masterpiece. High tail again. Breath towards sky. One, two, three. Then he starts again, wilder than before, roaring, laughting. What a powerful creature. He plays with Creator in his blood, performing divine joy. He is the conscious of just being. He is the existence itself. He is.
Run, run, run...
Where are you now, Gray Black? Across which highland you are now running? Can you hear my voice, you lonely wanderer, you night singer, you bravery, you escaping beauty? Where are your calm eyes of no questions? Eons old answers are inside them. Where is your obsessing howling? I know you were observing me while I was kneeling in front of your footstep, humbly capitulated, defeated by your simple truth, taking a pic of your ghost over the snow. It’s a frozen eternity tearing my heart apart. You invincible warrior of true life, you artist, Gipsy, brother. You rebel. You tell me about me. Simple words of purity from your sight. I couldn't see you then, I am still not allowed to stand next to you, but I sensed you. I'm on your track. The climbing was long and you shall not escape me anymore. No reason. No fear. I won't hurt you, my knife isn't for you. You won't hurt me. All I want is to meet you and say how much I love you, wolf.
Then you can run again.
It was long time since I was active on Mists. I came today just to feel great positive energy from this place and I opened this tread. Such noble feelings, thoughts...Dorota, I know how sincere you are in your fight for animal rights. I would like to contribute with one of my impressionistic writings inspired from my recent mountain trip. Much love for all.
FOOTSTEP
Now I can feel him. I located him. His footstep over the virgin snow. It's been a long search, but now I finally approached him. He was alone, as I was always imagining. In my vision, I saw him running with the freezing wind across the hills of our mountain. Sparkling snow. A sunbeam reflecting spectrum upon his high tail. It's a wild, it's a wildest run: furious jumps over cliffs, spectacular, sharp air turnarounds through the empty space of no tracks, no signs, no artificial sounds, no meanings, and no lies. He is antigravity. My blood is howling.
Run, my boy, run!
Live running and die running. (What an immortal death it would be). Just wild wind and wild run into the wild archspace of absolute freedom, into the desert of pure pleasure. And then, he would suddenly jump into the snow, rolling over, roughly sliding. Splendiferous explosion of whiteness. Ice is burning, people! Then he stands, for a few seconds he is a moveless monument encircled by white cloud, a masterpiece. High tail again. Breath towards sky. One, two, three. Then he starts again, wilder than before, roaring, laughting. What a powerful creature. He plays with Creator in his blood, performing divine joy. He is the conscious of just being. He is the existence itself. He is.
Run, run, run...
Where are you now, Gray Black? Across which highland you are now running? Can you hear my voice, you lonely wanderer, you night singer, you bravery, you escaping beauty? Where are your calm eyes of no questions? Eons old answers are inside them. Where is your obsessing howling? I know you were observing me while I was kneeling in front of your footstep, humbly capitulated, defeated by your simple truth, taking a pic of your ghost over the snow. It’s a frozen eternity tearing my heart apart. You invincible warrior of true life, you artist, Gipsy, brother. You rebel. You tell me about me. Simple words of purity from your sight. I couldn't see you then, I am still not allowed to stand next to you, but I sensed you. I'm on your track. The climbing was long and you shall not escape me anymore. No reason. No fear. I won't hurt you, my knife isn't for you. You won't hurt me. All I want is to meet you and say how much I love you, wolf.
Then you can run again.
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burgundia Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:16 pm
Sorry, but humans are the biggest scum..horses endure long-lasting torture before being killed for meat.
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burgundia Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:46 am
does anyone still think that humanity is royalty among other races of the universe? Or that we are so wonderful?
The Yawar fiesta is a spectacle in Peru where they capture a condor and tie to the bull.The two animals, now united by blood and suffering, leaving the arena, the condor in precarious balance, the bull rearing to get rid of an opponent rips strips skin of the loins and the head, threatening to get the eyes. This cruel tradition is threatening the condor survival. Please click on the following link and to the right click on "firma ahora" sign now. Write your email, name and last name and ID number or passport to get more needed signatures to finally ban this cruelty and save the condor:http://salvemosalcondor.org.pe/
The Yawar fiesta is a spectacle in Peru where they capture a condor and tie to the bull.The two animals, now united by blood and suffering, leaving the arena, the condor in precarious balance, the bull rearing to get rid of an opponent rips strips skin of the loins and the head, threatening to get the eyes. This cruel tradition is threatening the condor survival. Please click on the following link and to the right click on "firma ahora" sign now. Write your email, name and last name and ID number or passport to get more needed signatures to finally ban this cruelty and save the condor:http://salvemosalcondor.org.pe/
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burgundia Sun Feb 24, 2013 4:18 pm
*Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at tis mercy: animals. And in this respect, human kind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.~ Milan Kundera
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burgundia Sat Mar 02, 2013 3:05 pm
at Sudan Airport, Camels to export to Saudi Arabia by airfreight !
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burgundia Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:12 pm
When milkcows cannot produce enough milk they get slaughtered.
To produce milk they continiously have to be pregnant, so when they are slaughterd they mostly are. This is the result.
To produce milk they continiously have to be pregnant, so when they are slaughterd they mostly are. This is the result.
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burgundia Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:44 pm
Where is that light humans are supposed to have inside?
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burgundia Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:35 pm
]“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality[/size]
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality[/size]
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burgundia Sun Apr 07, 2013 4:59 pm
Greyhounds, referred to as ‘Galgos’ in Spanish, are commonly used as sporting dogs in Spain. They are most commonly used to hunt hares and other forms of small game. According to the World Society for the Protection of Animals, tens of thousands of Spanish Greyhounds are cruelly hung to death every year at the end of the hunting season. Dogs who had more successful hunting seasons are reportedly rewarded for their talents by being hung higher up or with shorter ropes, allowing them a quicker death. Dogs who preformed poorly during the hunting season are commonly hung on longer ropes, so that their feet just barely touch the ground, forcing them to suffer a prolonged and torturous death.
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burgundia Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:55 am
BEAR BILE FARMING CRUELTY
Bile bears or battery bears are Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus) kept in captivity to harvest bile, a digestive juice produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. When extracted, the bears’ bile is a valuable commodity for sale as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.
For this bile, the bears are confined in small cages with no room to move, declawed and with their teeth pulled out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lw8YSuAVIpI
Bear bile farming is still practiced in Asia where the bears are kept in small cages and bile is extracted for traditional medicine. There are a few methods used for bile extraction. The most recent technique is called ‘free dripping’. It involves making a permanent hole or fistula into the bears’ abdomen and gall bladder.
During bile milking, a metal tube will be used to poke through the hole to reach the gall bladder and break the membrane, so that the bile is released. This process is often done without anesthetic and sterilization.
The wound from the bile extraction was never closed. So, the wound never recovered. After months and years of this physical torture, many of these bears suffer from infections, diseases, tumor, cancer growth and death from peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum, the serous membrane, that lines part of the abdominal cavity and viscera).
The truth is, bear bile is far from healthy, and there are alternative medicines which have the exact healing properties. Today's bile is actually detrimental to humans' health as it contains puss, feces, rust and other contaminants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nml_vIhGQmI&feature=player_detailpage
Read more:
http://www.fazeteen.com/issue08/bear_bile_cruelty.html
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/are-bears-purposely-committing-suicide-to-protest-the-horror-of-bile-f
http://www.piaberrend.org/bear-bile-is-not-only-very-cruel-but-can-also-cause-liver-and-kidney-damages-and-even-death/
Bile bears or battery bears are Asian black bears (Ursus thibetanus) kept in captivity to harvest bile, a digestive juice produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. When extracted, the bears’ bile is a valuable commodity for sale as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.
For this bile, the bears are confined in small cages with no room to move, declawed and with their teeth pulled out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lw8YSuAVIpI
Bear bile farming is still practiced in Asia where the bears are kept in small cages and bile is extracted for traditional medicine. There are a few methods used for bile extraction. The most recent technique is called ‘free dripping’. It involves making a permanent hole or fistula into the bears’ abdomen and gall bladder.
During bile milking, a metal tube will be used to poke through the hole to reach the gall bladder and break the membrane, so that the bile is released. This process is often done without anesthetic and sterilization.
The wound from the bile extraction was never closed. So, the wound never recovered. After months and years of this physical torture, many of these bears suffer from infections, diseases, tumor, cancer growth and death from peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum, the serous membrane, that lines part of the abdominal cavity and viscera).
The truth is, bear bile is far from healthy, and there are alternative medicines which have the exact healing properties. Today's bile is actually detrimental to humans' health as it contains puss, feces, rust and other contaminants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nml_vIhGQmI&feature=player_detailpage
Read more:
http://www.fazeteen.com/issue08/bear_bile_cruelty.html
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/are-bears-purposely-committing-suicide-to-protest-the-horror-of-bile-f
http://www.piaberrend.org/bear-bile-is-not-only-very-cruel-but-can-also-cause-liver-and-kidney-damages-and-even-death/
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http://www.livescience.com/29065-poachers-kill-rhinos-in-mozambique-park.html
Sad news from Mozambique: Illegal poachers have killed all the rhinos in Limpopo National Park, a large wildlife reserve in the southeast African country, according to news reports.
Park director António Abacar was quoted as saying this week that no rhinos had been seen since January, "which means that the ones that lived in the park are probably dead," according to the Portugal News.
With all the rhinos gone, poachers are now turning to elephants for their tusks. The horns and tusks are valued for their supposed medicinal value, despite the fact that horns are made of the same basic material as fingernails, with no healing properties. The park spans 4,247 square miles (11,000 square kilometers), an area more than twice the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, Scientific American reports that for the first time in 33 years, a hunter has been allowed to import a trophy into the United States from a black rhino he shot in Namibia, outraging conservationists.
Sad news from Mozambique: Illegal poachers have killed all the rhinos in Limpopo National Park, a large wildlife reserve in the southeast African country, according to news reports.
Park director António Abacar was quoted as saying this week that no rhinos had been seen since January, "which means that the ones that lived in the park are probably dead," according to the Portugal News.
With all the rhinos gone, poachers are now turning to elephants for their tusks. The horns and tusks are valued for their supposed medicinal value, despite the fact that horns are made of the same basic material as fingernails, with no healing properties. The park spans 4,247 square miles (11,000 square kilometers), an area more than twice the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, Scientific American reports that for the first time in 33 years, a hunter has been allowed to import a trophy into the United States from a black rhino he shot in Namibia, outraging conservationists.
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burgundia Fri May 03, 2013 2:29 pm
Wolf baiting is not representative of usual hunting methods, but rather is a symbolic celebration of dominance over hunted prey. In this event, a live wolf is tied to a post while a trained hunting dog or falcon attacks and maims it to death. Hundreds of onlooking hunters watch and cheer as the creature is torn to pieces or bleeds to death. In many cases, the wolf inflicts serious damage to the attack animals, and so recent events have introduced a bit that is placed in the victim’s mouth to reduce its ability to fight back. This further terrifies the creature, and it never survives the encounter.
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burgundia Fri May 03, 2013 3:33 pm
Over 300 Animals Have Died at Surabaya Zoo
The animals of the Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia have been deliberatly neglected and abused, and many have starved to death due to the internal conflict of the Surabaya Government and new owners of the Surabaya Zoo.
The animals of the Surabaya Zoo in Indonesia have been deliberatly neglected and abused, and many have starved to death due to the internal conflict of the Surabaya Government and new owners of the Surabaya Zoo.
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burgundia Sun May 05, 2013 1:51 am
USDA Admits Exterminating Birds, Crops, and Bees
The USDA has been under fire recently for its admitted assault against nature, after multiple investigations have uncovered its deliberate tampering with both plants and animals alike. One such investigation has put an end to the mystery surrounding the death of millions of birds, with USDA documents revealing the organization’s role in the massive slaughter. In addition to the mass bird killings, it turns out the USDA was fully aware that a highly-popular herbicide chemical was a known bee-killer, which may have aided the bee decline. The USDA has also threatened the genetic integrity of the nation’s crops. Information has surfaced regarding the USDA’s illegal approval of Monsanto’s biotech crop, sugar beets. These crimes are simply an excerpt from the long list of USDA crimes that are continually being exposed.
The USDA has been under fire recently for its admitted assault against nature, after multiple investigations have uncovered its deliberate tampering with both plants and animals alike. One such investigation has put an end to the mystery surrounding the death of millions of birds, with USDA documents revealing the organization’s role in the massive slaughter. In addition to the mass bird killings, it turns out the USDA was fully aware that a highly-popular herbicide chemical was a known bee-killer, which may have aided the bee decline. The USDA has also threatened the genetic integrity of the nation’s crops. Information has surfaced regarding the USDA’s illegal approval of Monsanto’s biotech crop, sugar beets. These crimes are simply an excerpt from the long list of USDA crimes that are continually being exposed.
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burgundia Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:01 am
"Killing for a Living: The Traumatic Consequences of Slaughterhouse Work
What is it like to work in a slaughterhouse? Most abattoirs use assembly lines to quickly and cheaply massacre and process the animals. Workers are paid very low wages, and the jobs are degrading, gruesome and repetitive. Employees must endure sickening scenes of blood, gore and death every day, and the working conditions are extremely dangerous.
Many slaughterhouse workers feel trapped in their jobs, having no other way to provide for their families. Such a traumatic occupation exacts a huge price – draining a worker’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. One couple who worked in a chicken-processing plant in England describe their former jobs.
I did several kinds of jobs in the chicken factory. First my role was to hang the live chickens. They had to be put on a line that led to the slaughtering. If the job for this was already filled, then my task was to hang the already dead chickens.
I had a job in the factory on the line, in which we selected the chicken breasts and chicken legs. And it was given how many grams could be in a box. And that had to be selected and arranged in a shape. So even that mattered, in what order they were in the box. Because we were always at a different line, there was another section where we cut the chicken breasts into pieces using scissors.
The point is that, just like an animal, they made us work under very cold, very bad conditions. No break, no rest, no work clothes. (No work clothes either?) Nothing, nothing, nothing (No.) I had to put on the only pair of rubber boots which had been taken off by the person before me. If they were wet from him, I just had to work also in wet rubber boots.
These obscene killing factories can be absolutely massive in size. The largest slaughterhouse in the world, operated by a company in the US, can butcher over 32,000 pigs a day. And in the US alone, 270 chickens are slain every second or about 8.5 billion chickens a year. To kill and process this many innocent beings, employees are under constant pressure to work quickly and keep the murderous assembly lines going.
There were machines. There were machines everywhere.
These were very powerful machines that the person had to put the chicken inside one by one, from the right or left side. But your hands had to be fast there, like a machine. And even then, they were shouting a lot and were strict.
They were shouting at us, "Faster, faster!" If you weren't fast enough, you were told to leave.
But one aspect of abattoirs is even more revolting than the working conditions.
Because of the drastic sights in the factory, because of the torture of animals, the animals did not have a chance. And this was very disgusting and disturbing to us that every day just more, and more, and more (of this).
We hanged the chickens every day, and I saw every day the large amount of meat, the carcasses, the bodies of that huge number, many thousands, many thousands of chickens. I reflected upon how many thousands of chicken go away in a month, in a year, and that all of these are living beings.
And to fulfill animal-torturing roles like this, this was a very bad sight. And it was very bad to think about the fact that we raise something only to be killed under such torturous conditions, and to eat it.
Witnessing countless deaths day after mind-numbing day is utterly devastating to one’s mental state. In her report, “A Slaughterhouse Nightmare: Psychological Harm Suffered by Slaughterhouse Employees and the Possibility of Redress through Legal Reform,” Jennifer Dillard, a lawyer in the United States, examines some of the many psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, suffered by slaughterhouse workers.
And in her book, "Slaughterhouse," Gail A. Eisnitz, chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association, describes the crippling mental effects of this violent line of work. For many employees, the endless bloody murders they see at these factories of death continue to haunt them, even long after they leave their jobs.
We are sorry for what happened and that we also had to see this, what people do to an animal. We cannot forget what happened there and the things we did. It was a very bad experience for me.
And I do not wish this upon anyone. How they keep those animals, as we said, in the 21st century, and what they do to them, it's hideous. It is horrible. This is a horrible sight. It is like murder. Everything is covered in blood, and she (the chicken) is still alive. Her head is no longer there, but her body is still alive. And it's terrible.
Do the workers ever think about the feelings of the animals they slay? Former slaughterhouse employee Ed Calles, now a vegan, shares some of his personal experiences.
I grew up the son of a dock foreman in a beef slaughterhouse. When I got back home from the Vietnam War, I went to the slaughterhouse where my father was working, and took on some work. Back then I saw many things that were fairly disturbing, not knowing how de-sensitized I had become. I saw animals being led to their slaughter. That really impacted me.
Was this the purpose they were put on Earth for? I asked myself that question over and over as I saw them coming out of the cattle trucks and into the corrals and even jumping the corrals and fearing for their lives, running down the avenue, and taking on automobiles head-on, crashing into them. And this animal was in fear of her life. So, in seeing that, I was just aghast. How cruel! I mean, I had been back from the war and saw a lot of cruelty and death and killing and that sort of thing, and here I was, in need of a job, and I saw all this cruelty again.
Constantly surrounded by the animals' heart wrenching cries for help as well as blood, urine and feces, slaughterhouse employees often try to find ways to cope.
Eventually, I became desensitized. But in my heart of hearts, I knew there was something wrong here. I didn’t know exactly what. Guys carried on in a bloodthirsty kind of lifestyle. During work, in the early morning hours, loading trucks with these animal carcasses, men drank all night long; (they were) severely intoxicated. But they did their job.
And I was offered a lot to drink, but I couldn’t. Now looking back at it, I think they had to. Because it was their way of desensitizing themselves. I just wanted to be at peace with myself and everybody around me, but I just couldn’t find it there.
In Ed Calles' experience, the brutal work often resulted in another outcome.
These men had episodes of rage and anger if little things didn’t go their way. Many times there were drunken brawls over the smallest of things. And the toughest guy was the guy who picked up, the most amount of weight, that you just gave more respect to.
But a smaller little guy would pick up something and start swinging, I mean (swinging) hooks, (the) big hooks that these pieces of meat would roll down the dock to, for us to swing them, and cut them and load them. So many times there was an outbreak of a fight. And a lot of it just was not making much sense. And I had to find another way out, and eventually I did.
Slaughterhouse workers can become so unfeeling to death and devoid of compassion that they sometimes injure or kill animals simply for amusement. Les Ingram, a former slaughterhouse employee in the UK, recalls one such incident.
And so one young bloke I remember, he goes down in the lairage one day, and he’s carrying a boning knife. And there are pens full of sheep. And he just stuck the knife through the bars and stabbed it into the side of a sheep. I said, "What did you do that for?"
When you're going into those places, killing animals is part of everyday life, because that’s what happens there. So it must affect some people quite badly. Whether people manage to deal with it, and whatever the system they use to deal with it, some do (have it), but some don’t.
Are people who live in the vicinity of a slaughterhouse also affected by the murderous atmosphere? Jaylene Musgrave, a vegan in Australia whose father worked in an abattoir, shares her childhood experience.
Each night, I'd go to sleep and you'd hear the cows mooing and you could just feel the fright and terror that they were going through. And I just felt sick all the time, knowing that these poor animals were being held captive and what they were going to go through. It just made me always anxious. And I never, ever want to live near anything like that, ever again.
While the employees in a slaughterhouse may be doing the killing, they are actually just one part of a system that supplies meat to consumers. Hence there’s only one way we can end this murderous cycle: adopt a plant-based diet.
I actually think that anyone that consumes animal products should take time to visit an abattoir. The people that work in those situations are doing the dirty work for consumers. And I believe that if anyone who wants to eat meat had to slaughter their own animal, we’d have a lot more vegans in this world."
SOURCE: http://suprememastertv.com/services_subt.php?bo_table=Stop_Cruelty&wr_id=97&subt_cont=aw&show=aw
What is it like to work in a slaughterhouse? Most abattoirs use assembly lines to quickly and cheaply massacre and process the animals. Workers are paid very low wages, and the jobs are degrading, gruesome and repetitive. Employees must endure sickening scenes of blood, gore and death every day, and the working conditions are extremely dangerous.
Many slaughterhouse workers feel trapped in their jobs, having no other way to provide for their families. Such a traumatic occupation exacts a huge price – draining a worker’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. One couple who worked in a chicken-processing plant in England describe their former jobs.
I did several kinds of jobs in the chicken factory. First my role was to hang the live chickens. They had to be put on a line that led to the slaughtering. If the job for this was already filled, then my task was to hang the already dead chickens.
I had a job in the factory on the line, in which we selected the chicken breasts and chicken legs. And it was given how many grams could be in a box. And that had to be selected and arranged in a shape. So even that mattered, in what order they were in the box. Because we were always at a different line, there was another section where we cut the chicken breasts into pieces using scissors.
The point is that, just like an animal, they made us work under very cold, very bad conditions. No break, no rest, no work clothes. (No work clothes either?) Nothing, nothing, nothing (No.) I had to put on the only pair of rubber boots which had been taken off by the person before me. If they were wet from him, I just had to work also in wet rubber boots.
These obscene killing factories can be absolutely massive in size. The largest slaughterhouse in the world, operated by a company in the US, can butcher over 32,000 pigs a day. And in the US alone, 270 chickens are slain every second or about 8.5 billion chickens a year. To kill and process this many innocent beings, employees are under constant pressure to work quickly and keep the murderous assembly lines going.
There were machines. There were machines everywhere.
These were very powerful machines that the person had to put the chicken inside one by one, from the right or left side. But your hands had to be fast there, like a machine. And even then, they were shouting a lot and were strict.
They were shouting at us, "Faster, faster!" If you weren't fast enough, you were told to leave.
But one aspect of abattoirs is even more revolting than the working conditions.
Because of the drastic sights in the factory, because of the torture of animals, the animals did not have a chance. And this was very disgusting and disturbing to us that every day just more, and more, and more (of this).
We hanged the chickens every day, and I saw every day the large amount of meat, the carcasses, the bodies of that huge number, many thousands, many thousands of chickens. I reflected upon how many thousands of chicken go away in a month, in a year, and that all of these are living beings.
And to fulfill animal-torturing roles like this, this was a very bad sight. And it was very bad to think about the fact that we raise something only to be killed under such torturous conditions, and to eat it.
Witnessing countless deaths day after mind-numbing day is utterly devastating to one’s mental state. In her report, “A Slaughterhouse Nightmare: Psychological Harm Suffered by Slaughterhouse Employees and the Possibility of Redress through Legal Reform,” Jennifer Dillard, a lawyer in the United States, examines some of the many psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, suffered by slaughterhouse workers.
And in her book, "Slaughterhouse," Gail A. Eisnitz, chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association, describes the crippling mental effects of this violent line of work. For many employees, the endless bloody murders they see at these factories of death continue to haunt them, even long after they leave their jobs.
We are sorry for what happened and that we also had to see this, what people do to an animal. We cannot forget what happened there and the things we did. It was a very bad experience for me.
And I do not wish this upon anyone. How they keep those animals, as we said, in the 21st century, and what they do to them, it's hideous. It is horrible. This is a horrible sight. It is like murder. Everything is covered in blood, and she (the chicken) is still alive. Her head is no longer there, but her body is still alive. And it's terrible.
Do the workers ever think about the feelings of the animals they slay? Former slaughterhouse employee Ed Calles, now a vegan, shares some of his personal experiences.
I grew up the son of a dock foreman in a beef slaughterhouse. When I got back home from the Vietnam War, I went to the slaughterhouse where my father was working, and took on some work. Back then I saw many things that were fairly disturbing, not knowing how de-sensitized I had become. I saw animals being led to their slaughter. That really impacted me.
Was this the purpose they were put on Earth for? I asked myself that question over and over as I saw them coming out of the cattle trucks and into the corrals and even jumping the corrals and fearing for their lives, running down the avenue, and taking on automobiles head-on, crashing into them. And this animal was in fear of her life. So, in seeing that, I was just aghast. How cruel! I mean, I had been back from the war and saw a lot of cruelty and death and killing and that sort of thing, and here I was, in need of a job, and I saw all this cruelty again.
Constantly surrounded by the animals' heart wrenching cries for help as well as blood, urine and feces, slaughterhouse employees often try to find ways to cope.
Eventually, I became desensitized. But in my heart of hearts, I knew there was something wrong here. I didn’t know exactly what. Guys carried on in a bloodthirsty kind of lifestyle. During work, in the early morning hours, loading trucks with these animal carcasses, men drank all night long; (they were) severely intoxicated. But they did their job.
And I was offered a lot to drink, but I couldn’t. Now looking back at it, I think they had to. Because it was their way of desensitizing themselves. I just wanted to be at peace with myself and everybody around me, but I just couldn’t find it there.
In Ed Calles' experience, the brutal work often resulted in another outcome.
These men had episodes of rage and anger if little things didn’t go their way. Many times there were drunken brawls over the smallest of things. And the toughest guy was the guy who picked up, the most amount of weight, that you just gave more respect to.
But a smaller little guy would pick up something and start swinging, I mean (swinging) hooks, (the) big hooks that these pieces of meat would roll down the dock to, for us to swing them, and cut them and load them. So many times there was an outbreak of a fight. And a lot of it just was not making much sense. And I had to find another way out, and eventually I did.
Slaughterhouse workers can become so unfeeling to death and devoid of compassion that they sometimes injure or kill animals simply for amusement. Les Ingram, a former slaughterhouse employee in the UK, recalls one such incident.
And so one young bloke I remember, he goes down in the lairage one day, and he’s carrying a boning knife. And there are pens full of sheep. And he just stuck the knife through the bars and stabbed it into the side of a sheep. I said, "What did you do that for?"
When you're going into those places, killing animals is part of everyday life, because that’s what happens there. So it must affect some people quite badly. Whether people manage to deal with it, and whatever the system they use to deal with it, some do (have it), but some don’t.
Are people who live in the vicinity of a slaughterhouse also affected by the murderous atmosphere? Jaylene Musgrave, a vegan in Australia whose father worked in an abattoir, shares her childhood experience.
Each night, I'd go to sleep and you'd hear the cows mooing and you could just feel the fright and terror that they were going through. And I just felt sick all the time, knowing that these poor animals were being held captive and what they were going to go through. It just made me always anxious. And I never, ever want to live near anything like that, ever again.
While the employees in a slaughterhouse may be doing the killing, they are actually just one part of a system that supplies meat to consumers. Hence there’s only one way we can end this murderous cycle: adopt a plant-based diet.
I actually think that anyone that consumes animal products should take time to visit an abattoir. The people that work in those situations are doing the dirty work for consumers. And I believe that if anyone who wants to eat meat had to slaughter their own animal, we’d have a lot more vegans in this world."
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