Our Food Has Feelings Too

[Girlish]

A piece of meat, a glass of milk, or even an egg might seem pretty harmless. Everyone knows where they come from but most choose not to think about it. The truth is that the piece of meat sitting on your plate at dinner came from an animal that was tormented and put through enormous stress and pain to get from the ‘farm’ to the dinner table.

Farms that breed and raise animals for meat and other such things aren’t at all what we picture. Green meadows where the animals graze in peace for the few short years of their lives have been replaced by “fresh produce factories”. Animals not being treated with any respect or humanity, instead seen only as profitable meat products.

Cows sheep and pigs don’t just suffer at the slaughterhouse but throughout their lives. Feedlots, the place they are sent to fatten up before being killed are full of harmful bacteria and are extremely crowded.

What the animals are fed is also very harmful. Steroids and unnaturally rich diets are used to fatten them quickly, thereby maximising profitability. Metabolic disorders are the result of this.

In modern dairies, cows also forced to endure calfing every year, whilst producing milk for seven months of their nine-month gestation period. Cows live up to twenty-five years in a healthy environment, but in these dairies only live three or four years. Like beef cows they are fed unnaturally rich diets to make them produce more milk. Milk production can be as much as ten times more than that of a natural grazed animal.

But if you thought that only grown cows suffer, that these farmers at least take care of the babies, you were wrong. Veal is a very profitable meat, the calf usually only living to sixteen weeks in a small wooden crate where it can’t move properly or even lie down comfortably. Some are killed just after
a few days, then sold as low grade frozen TV dinners.

Chickens and other poultry also suffer in small cages (usually two hens in a cage sixteen inches wide). After having their beaks cut off to reduce pecking their feathers usually fall out, from the constant rubbing against the wire cage. Eventually with bruises and sores covering their bodies, the hens die from fatty liver syndrome, lack of calcium, heat prostration, infectious disease and cancer.

After a year when they can no longer lay another egg, they are sent to the slaughterhouse. Their brittle bones usually break and smash during this handling.

Once in the slaughterhouse they are dumped on a conveyor belt which takes them through the slaughtering process. They are stunned, struck by a mechanical blade and lastly boiled in a tank of water. However sometimes stunning doesn’t work, the mechanical blade occasionally missing so the chicken ends up being boiled alive. This cruelty doesn’t even take into consideration the chickens that slip threw the cracks of the belt or off it entirely. They are eventually crushed by machinery or nearby vehicles or starve to death.

People should strive to put a stop to this inhumanity. It is plain torture and disgusting that people eat diseased and steroid pumped animals.

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[ستاره لارا]

Oh, yeah...Dear Girlish. You take words out of my mouth. I exactly feel the same as I, sometimes, eat meat, and eggs, I do not like it at all, and always try to eat something else instead. I even remember once I was with a group of friends came across a man trying to buy a chicken to murder and later eat it in his house probably we asked him if he sold it ti us with a better price and to our surprised he did not accepted for how can a murdered have mercy. God bless the chicken's soul.

Please try to eat vegetables or anything else but meat, chicken and eggs, for God's sake.

[Greight]

Well, if you want to look at the world like that anything you eat has been alive sometime before. Considering vegetables their cells maybe even be alive when you are eating them. So we have to not think about our food like that. But about the incident you talked about, yeah that's right but it starts a religous discussion that though I'm so interested in within current confinements is not possible at the moment. Anyway I, you or anybody else may dare later to start a thread in discussion center about it.