This video is only a piece of the slaughterhouse video that prompted the massive beef recall. Even putting aside the fact that sick cattle were allowed into food supply, what’s more important is the way we continue to allow the barbarism that goes on inside these slaughterhouses.
I enjoy eating meat, but with every passing month I get closer and closer to giving it up. The way these animals are treated is becoming an issue that is impossible to overlook or sweep under the rug.
It simply doesn’t make sense for meat companies to kill cattle in such a grotesque and inhumane manner. It would not cost the company more money to put the animal down humanely. Yet it seems as though these companies actually prefer to kill cattle in the most gruesome and savage ways possible.
These slaughterhouses are nothing more than assembly lines of torture and mass murder. I say this not as a PETA nut, but as a lifelong meat eater and hunter.
The difference between these meat companies and hunting is quite simple. When I shoot a deer I kill it with one shot and it dies immediately. If I were to employ the same tactics to hunting as are employed by slaughterhouses, I would shoot a deer in the leg and then chain it to my truck and drag it to death.
The public was rightly outraged over the Michael Vick dogfighting case and his torture and killing of dogs. Why then is there not similar outrage over the torture and killing of cows? Or Chickens? Or any other meat Americans consume?
Why are cows considered throw-away animals that don’t deserve even an ounce of compassion or sympathy? Why is it okay to kick and electrocute a cow, but not a dog? I can assure you that cows feel the same sense of terror and agony when they’re tortured as dogs do.
The bottom line is that the American meat industry needs to be reformed and new regulations need to be put in place, both from a consumer safety standpoint and an animal cruelty standpoint.
-Chris Jones
