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Sunday, May 06, 2007, 7:46 PM
i was watching one part of 'An inconvenient truth' on youtube just now and it led me to thinking about animals being killed for food. god knows why i suddenly thought about animals when the video was basically about global warming but the fact is, you humans are selfish; you humans who eat animals. just for your pleasure, just for that one so-called mouth watering bite of pig flesh or cow flesh or chicken flesh. you humans are stupid actually. very stupid. you are just completely ignorant of the fact that you are committing such a huge sin.
how many of you are aware that cows and pigs cry before they are slaughtered. i repeat-they cry.
many a times, you animal-eating humans just think that these animals have no feelings, they carry no joy or sadness and its o.k to kill them, its o.k to separate them from their loved ones and its o.k to make them suffer every single second of their lives. yes, i emphasise on 'every single second of their lives'. they arnt just happily running around for a gazillion years of their life and then one fine day, get killed. the very second they're born, their suffering begins.
Why?
just so that you omnivores are happy. look at these pigs for example.
Pigs are sociable, playful, and emotional animals with high intelligence level but guess what happens to them? Close to 100 million pigs are raised and slaughtered just in the U.S. every year. As babies, they are subjected to painful mutilations without anesthesia or pain relievers. The piglets' tails are cut off to minimize tail biting. Oh and they
dont bite of their tails because they are retarded or anything. Its because these highly intelligent animals cannot stand it when kept in deprived factory farm environments. In addition, notches are taken out of the piglets' ears for identification. Painful already? This is just the starting.
At 2 to 3 weeks of age, the piglets are taken away from their mothers, by which time, approximately 15% will have died. The surviving piglets are crowded into pens with metal bars and concrete floors.
The pigs endure overcrowded confinement buildings for their entire lives, until they reach a slaughter weight of 250 pounds at 6 months of age. Look at the picture above for a clearer example.Modern breeding sows are treated like piglet making machines. Living a continuous cycle of impregnation and birth, the sows each have more than 20 piglets per year. After being impregnated, the sows are confined in small pens or metal gestation crates which are just 2 feet wide. At the end of their 4 month pregnancy, they are transferred to farrowing crates to give birth. The sows barely have room to stand up and lie down, and many suffer from sores on their shoulders. They are denied straw bedding and forced to stand and lie on hard floors.
After giving birth and nursing their young for two to three weeks, the piglets are taken away to be fattened, and the sow is
re impregnated. When the sow is no longer deemed a productive breeder, she is sent to slaughter.
These pigs are hung upside down by their back legs and bled to death at the slaughterhouse. As they are hung upside down, some pigs lose their conscious. However, the conscious pigs hanging upside down, kick and struggle, while a slaughterhouse worker tries to 'stick' them in the neck with a knife. If the worker is unsuccessful, the pig will be carried to the next station on the slaughterhouse assembly line, the scalding tank, where he/she will be boiled alive.
[information from
www.da4a.org/pigs.htm ; modified by me]
isnt this unfair? god
didnt create them to die and suffer and be slaughtered/boiled to death. They were created to enjoy life like we human beings do. Oh and i bet you all cant be bothered because animals taste really good,
dont they? And that is all that matters right? Selfish, plain selfish. what if you were a pig or a cow? Just think about it. Being boiled to death. i mean,
doesnt just the thought of it make you cringe?
Well, maybe animals do taste good. I
dont know, because
i've never tried and i
dont wish to try as well but there are always substitutes available like mock meat. Why cant you just eat those? Is it that important that you make those innocent animals go through so much of suffering?
Its dinner time- i bet many of you are eating a chicken or a cow or a pig or a duck or a fish now.
Think about those poor creatures when you take your next bite.
Do they deserve all that suffering? I believe not.
Adopt vegetarianism and you wont regret. good night (:
