Thursday, April 27, 2017

Farm Animals For The Chop


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The most abused animals are the food animals. What if they could speak? What would they say about caged hens and machine-controlled cows? What would they say about denuded forests and the latest frightening changes to the weather? They’d give us such an ear-bashing.



It’s just as well they’re voiceless. But it’s sad. Omnivores are responsible for so much of this sadness. And what’s worse they don’t admit to the part they play.



That act of attacking animal starts on the farms and most lethally at the slaughter house. And whether it happens in the clinical, mechanised surroundings of the modern abattoir or in the backyard at the hands of the farmer, it’s the same terror for the animal, in the type of death it suffers. It’s murder, slaughter, execution, or torture. Call it what you like, but it happens to every domesticated animal used for food and clothing, whether killed for its carcass or to end its life when its productivity has ended. It’s killed because and keeping it alive no longer makes economic sense.

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