bon appetit meat eaters
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This is minor compared to what routinely plays out everyday in packing plants all over Canada and the US.
I transported livestock for 12 years from feedlots/producers directly to slaughter.
The things you're seeing on these videos are repulsive but minor compared to some of the things routinely being done to slaughter animals.
I was in a major slaughter house in eastern Canada a couple of years ago and there was a truck with a very emaciated black and white dairy cow that was really pregnant and downer(couldnt get up).
The driver and the staff of the slaughter house beat her with an axe handle until one of her eyes popped out then they prodded (electroshocked) her eye until she was crazy.
She still couldnt move so one of them poured a full bottle of coke in her ear
then she got up and moved,i'll never forget the look on her face as she stumbled out of the truck with her eye hanging out of its socket and her partially born calf protruding out of her hind end.
The chute attendant was prodding the partially born calf and laughing.
Ever seen half dead piglets shoveled out of a truck with a pitchfork then run over while still half alive by a front end loader scraping up the shit pile?
I quit hauling livestock after that.
It looks pretty on the shelves and is oh so tasty but there is a very dark side to how that meat gets onto your plate.
Denial is a very handy tool though and the meat packing industry banks millions because we dont really want to know and very few of us ever see what really goes on.
P.S sorry for such a depressing first post!
I transported livestock for 12 years from feedlots/producers directly to slaughter.
The things you're seeing on these videos are repulsive but minor compared to some of the things routinely being done to slaughter animals.
I was in a major slaughter house in eastern Canada a couple of years ago and there was a truck with a very emaciated black and white dairy cow that was really pregnant and downer(couldnt get up).
The driver and the staff of the slaughter house beat her with an axe handle until one of her eyes popped out then they prodded (electroshocked) her eye until she was crazy.
She still couldnt move so one of them poured a full bottle of coke in her ear
then she got up and moved,i'll never forget the look on her face as she stumbled out of the truck with her eye hanging out of its socket and her partially born calf protruding out of her hind end.
The chute attendant was prodding the partially born calf and laughing.
Ever seen half dead piglets shoveled out of a truck with a pitchfork then run over while still half alive by a front end loader scraping up the shit pile?
I quit hauling livestock after that.
It looks pretty on the shelves and is oh so tasty but there is a very dark side to how that meat gets onto your plate.
Denial is a very handy tool though and the meat packing industry banks millions because we dont really want to know and very few of us ever see what really goes on.
P.S sorry for such a depressing first post!
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Maybe RCALF can spend their money suing themselves now. They were so worried about Canadian beef safety maybe they should take a look in their own backyard.
Me too, actually I did... there is no excuse for this.I think I may cry
That was SOOO upsetting
because you deserve it
Don't get mad at us when you're suffering from "mad cow" disease...I buy my meats at Costco & get some pretty nice cuts at a good price.
Check it out everybody!
Nuthin says "I love you" better than Filet mignon!
'you are what eat' is even more significant today
In the western world, we eat twice as much protein as we require. Most of the population is obese or overweight. The meat industry is rife with abuse not to mention the hormones & antibiotics they are allowed to use. Pharma, industry & gov't has created quite a mess & most of the time manages to hide it. It's certainly inconvenient to know the truth but it's also empowering as we all have the ability to make better choices, for ourselves, the animals & the planet. I hope everyone pauses at the frozen meat isle & thinks about how that steak made it there.
In the western world, we eat twice as much protein as we require. Most of the population is obese or overweight. The meat industry is rife with abuse not to mention the hormones & antibiotics they are allowed to use. Pharma, industry & gov't has created quite a mess & most of the time manages to hide it. It's certainly inconvenient to know the truth but it's also empowering as we all have the ability to make better choices, for ourselves, the animals & the planet. I hope everyone pauses at the frozen meat isle & thinks about how that steak made it there.
I'm a carnivore and a meat expert. I've been in packing plants through out Canada and the US. Without question slaughtering cattle, calves, hogs and poultry is a bloody business. It's the nature of the beast. The plants I have been in are clean and highly inspected. It makes no difference if the animal in question is raised organically, or in a feed lot, or free range down on the farm. No matter where it occurs, when slaughter happens......there will be blood. I've also been on a commercial trawler that was catching and processing fish....again not pretty.Most people are never really exposed to the supply side.
The dairy industry uses technics that has seen dairy cattle increase milk production many fold. Poultry has been re-engineered to produce more breast meat. It goes on and on. Maybe the answer is we have to kill or grow what we eat.
The bottom line is we in North America like our protien, leather and suede shoes, jackets, bags, car interiors and couches. As well as Goose down pillows and jackets, comestics, collagen and pharmecuticals etc.
Personally, I've come to accept it. But like alot of issues, no one is exactly right and no one is exactly wrong.
Peace
Mr Green
The dairy industry uses technics that has seen dairy cattle increase milk production many fold. Poultry has been re-engineered to produce more breast meat. It goes on and on. Maybe the answer is we have to kill or grow what we eat.
The bottom line is we in North America like our protien, leather and suede shoes, jackets, bags, car interiors and couches. As well as Goose down pillows and jackets, comestics, collagen and pharmecuticals etc.
Personally, I've come to accept it. But like alot of issues, no one is exactly right and no one is exactly wrong.
Peace
Mr Green
