Taylor Hain Animals and how they are treated “You’ll ruin my appetite”, this is the typical response if you ever talk to someone about where there food comes from. The problem here is that people either does not want to know or do not care where there food comes from. It’s not just the meat we consume though, it is the way we treat animals in general. Every day, animals are abused, neglected, and generally uncared for. So why is it that we choose to ignore all of the commercials we see from the Humane Society, the ASPCA, and PETA etc…? We have all seen them and felt some emotion but we continue to ignore them because they are “depressing” or they “are only showing the bad side of the industry”, it is because we do not want to think about any of these things and we just want to go on with our lives as if nothing has happened. The way we treat animals in shelters and pounds is awful. They cannot take all of these animals in and support them because they do not have the funds to do so. Some shelters have begun using a gas chamber as opposed to Euthanasia. It can sometimes take up to 20 minutes of agony for these animals to die. In other parts of the world they will shove dogs and other animals in trash compacters because it is cheaper. Animals that families cannot support will often be fed a piece of food laced with poison or other chemicals or they will be shot. Animals that we use for clothing are treated just as badly. The cows from India that we use for leather are bought from with their owners with the promise that they will live the rest of their lives on farms, when in fact what the people who buy them will do is walk them through the barren conditions of the land to get them loaded into trucks for slaughter. Often times these animals become so weak from dehydration and lack of food that they will collapse or be unable to move on. When this happens, in an effort to keep them moving, they will snap sections of the animal’s tails or beat them with switches to try to get them back up on their feet. If the animal collapses before it is loaded onto the truck, they will beat it one last time to try to get it up or, if that fails, they will slaughter the animal there. Animals that we use for laboratory testing are unnecessarily treated horribly and purposely inflicted pain upon. Monkeys are used for to test trauma injuries in car crashes. They will have their heads strapped into a helmet and it will be thrust at a 45 degree angle and after they do this they will staple the animals head back together until it is healed. In conclusion, all I want to say is “I don’t care if you eat meat, I only want you to understand how animals are treated in this day and age.”
Animals and how they are treated
“You’ll ruin my appetite”, this is the typical response if you ever talk to someone about where there food comes from. The problem here is that people either does not want to know or do not care where there food comes from. It’s not just the meat we consume though, it is the way we treat animals in general. Every day, animals are abused, neglected, and generally uncared for. So why is it that we choose to ignore all of the commercials we see from the Humane Society, the ASPCA, and PETA etc…? We have all seen them and felt some emotion but we continue to ignore them because they are “depressing” or they “are only showing the bad side of the industry”, it is because we do not want to think about any of these things and we just want to go on with our lives as if nothing has happened.
The way we treat animals in shelters and pounds is awful. They cannot take all of these animals in and support them because they do not have the funds to do so. Some shelters have begun using a gas chamber as opposed to Euthanasia. It can sometimes take up to 20 minutes of agony for these animals to die. In other parts of the world they will shove dogs and other animals in trash compacters because it is cheaper. Animals that families cannot support will often be fed a piece of food laced with poison or other chemicals or they will be shot.
Animals that we use for clothing are treated just as badly. The cows from India that we use for leather are bought from with their owners with the promise that they will live the rest of their lives on farms, when in fact what the people who buy them will do is walk them through the barren conditions of the land to get them loaded into trucks for slaughter. Often times these animals become so weak from dehydration and lack of food that they will collapse or be unable to move on. When this happens, in an effort to keep them moving, they will snap sections of the animal’s tails or beat them with switches to try to get them back up on their feet. If the animal collapses before it is loaded onto the truck, they will beat it one last time to try to get it up or, if that fails, they will slaughter the animal there.
Animals that we use for laboratory testing are unnecessarily treated horribly and purposely inflicted pain upon. Monkeys are used for to test trauma injuries in car crashes. They will have their heads strapped into a helmet and it will be thrust at a 45 degree angle and after they do this they will staple the animals head back together until it is healed.
In conclusion, all I want to say is “I don’t care if you eat meat, I only want you to understand how animals are treated in this day and age.”