Do you love cute baby piggies? What about those big brown-eyed cows? And you gotta love the tiny little baby chicks? You love animals right? How much do you really love them and how much do you really know about what you're eating?
Most people I've met, who are omnivores, claim that either they know where they're meat is coming from or that they just don't care. Well let me tell you, you need to care. Because that little bit of caring could be the difference between being alive or dying. And that tiny bit of caring you need to have may save lives.
We all know animals have to die for you to eat them, it's the sad fact of life that we all know. But do you know how it's done? What is feels like? Well how about the smell, the sounds or what is getting put in your food because of it?
Mostly all of our meat comes from factory farms. And we are talking a lot of meat, try, 10 billion animals per year. A whole lot of animals and it's not including fish and exotic game either.
The conditions in these factory farms are not straight out of Wonderland, they are horrible. Female pigs are used for breeding and these pigs are called "breeding sows".
They are confined in tiny spaces called 'gestation crates' for most of their lives, which are so small they can barely turn around, move or breathe in clean air. Male 'dairy cows' are used to make veal. They obviously lack the useful parts that female cows do so they "serve no purpose". They are shackled by their feet or necks to a brick wall, aligned next to hundreds of other cows just like they are. Female cows are constantly being impregnated so that they can produce milk and more veal. The constant squeezing and milking of their utters causes excruciatingly painful swelling and can cause them to bleed.
Most beef cattle spend several months in congested feedlots where they are fed unnatural diets and exposed to freezing and extremely hot temperatures without shelter. Things like the tail-ripper or hide-pulled go on when the cows are usually not yet dead, still conscious.
Chicken, which are the majority of animals killed, are kept in cages so small they can not move, spread their wings or socialize like they would naturally. They live, in their short life, in their own urine and feces and the defections of other chickens around them. They are fed foods that cause their bodies to outgrow their body's organ growth, which causes most chickens to die. It's a slow and painful death. The smell is beyond awful and no chicken has clean food, water or air to breathe. They also become so big that they can no longer stand, so, they fall in whatever spot and sit there until the abusive workers come to take them to the factory.
Male chickens, like male cows, have no place in the egg industry so they are ground up or boiled...alive. Yes, alive. They have their necks cut only a few seconds before being tossed in to be boiled or crushed and they are usually not dead by then.
These are only a few, and I repeat FEW, of the things that go on behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses and factory farms.
It's heart-breaking. It truly is. These animals have just as much feeling as us, think as much as we do and fear as much as we do. They hurt, they breathe, they love just as we do. They know death is coming and they know fear as they watch the pig or cow in front of them being slaughtered, crushed and beat: Can you sit there and tell me you don't care?
So before you sit down to eat that 1/2 pound burger or cutting into a big 13oz hunk of steak you may wanna think about what you're eating and what that animal went through for it to be on your plate.
Animals are friends, not food.
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