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Do You Have The Stomach For Farm Factory Animal Cruelty Videos?
MEET YOUR MEAT
I have watched a few very graphic and informative farm animal cruelty videos such as “Meet Your Meat” and I just have to tell you that I don’t have the stomach for them. Do you? Can you watch one of the many such videos out there which tell the tale of unmentionable, unimaginable farm factory animal cruelty and come away from it without a change of heart? Or maybe you fall into the category of many that I have known who speak of their great love for animals and even demonstrate it in their lives and yet they tell me that they cannot bear to watch even one of these videos. They are far too sensitive and have far too great a concern for the animals that share our planet and should be our friends, so they tell me that they just have to refuse to view such a disgusting display. Some of these folks are so passionate and exhibit such a clear love for our animal population that I have often wondered what these same people are thinking when they close their eyes to incomprehensible cruelty.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
If you are a meat eater than you are directly responsible for the abject cruelty that the above referred to videos portray. You are not an innocent bystander to these horrendous atrocities, YOU DID IT! You are directly responsible for the perpetuation of the most heinous acts that the human mind can fathom, and your responsibility grows with every hamburger you ingest. Every time you and I have ever visited Colonel Sanders or Jack in the Box or Burger King we were the cause of the untold suffering of an intelligent, loving, loyal, innocent animal.
Animal Cruelty Down on the Farm – Not to Be Read by Animal Lovers
I have just had the most harrowing experience of my life, which has not only left me mentally disturbed, but opened my eyes to how man can be so callous towards animals (not all.) In a way I am glad to have witnessed the gruesome scenes of animal cruelty to eliminate any disbelief I had that such evil atrocities is permitted to go on.
However mixed emotions of sadness and madness comes combined into one and to the fore towards those involved who carry out barbaric and inhumane acts on poor defenseless animals before going to slaughter, or just in general in their day to day habitat.
I could kick myself for ever clicking the play button on the video to watch the uncut version involving cruelty to animals on farms. After witnessing such carnage, I now see the abattoir as a haven for animals to find peace. Mind you in saying that, cruel senseless sadistic activities also take place here too. Livestock are just that “alive” when slaughter tactics take place. With slit throats, the cattle which hang from their hunkers still manage to give the “I am in pain” odd jerk. Others still with breath were skinned and pigs boiled in vats till they breathe no more. What I seen will forever stay with me. It sickened me to the stomach to see castrations taking place with no aesthetic. It is the daily norm on the farm to see bull horns chopped in half, pigs beaten with iron rods, hen beaks burnt off and baby calves prodded with electrified poles to guide them in the right direction. This is a baby right, what do they know about left and right. All of these animals suffered the most agonizing pain because no sedation was used.
Stop Animal Cruelty to Indian Sloth Bears
The Indian sloth bear is one of the helpless victims of animal cruelty on the Indian sub-continent. They are not alone, because other bears suffer horrible abuses as well. Sloth bears are killed every year for their gallbladders, also the claws, bile, and genital organs. The gallbladder and bile, which is excreted from the gallbladder, are used in Chinese folk medicine along with the genitals. The claws are expensive trinkets to sell on the black market along with the other bear products. The severe poaching of sloth bears for their body parts and taking of bear cubs to be trained for “dancing,” has taken its toll on the population. It is now on the World Conservation Union’s red list of threatened animals. Human encroachment into their wild habitat by quarrying, mining, illegal tree felling, and mass deforestation has scattered the bears into small, fragmented groups in south and east India. There is a sub species in Sri Lanka as well.
The sloth bear is unique because it is the only bear that routinely carries her young on her back when out foraging. She travels fair distances to get enough food for her and the cubs by raiding many ant and termite nests, which are the preferred diet of these bears. They will eat fruit that is in season, eggs, yams and other vegetables along with honey, which is also favored by the bears. They like it so much they share the name, “honey bears” with the sun bear. It is also very fond of honey/honeycomb. The sloth bear’s long, curved claws are an asset when climbing trees to get at the bee’s nests, also to shake fruit out of the trees to feed the cubs on the ground below. When food is scarce however, the bears sometimes raid food crops of the farmers in the area. This causes bear/man confrontations resulting in more bear deaths and sometimes human fatalities.
When the sloth bear cubs are poached, they are sometimes taken out of their dens much too soon. A cub usually doesn’t leave the den until it is 3 months old, but poachers have taken them as young as 5 weeks. As many as 70% of the babies may not make it adulthood because of the animal cruelty perpetrated upon them when so young. They are put in sacks and taken to Kalandar (Qalandar) villages to be sold and trained by the Kalandar as dancing bears. Kalandar men are the traditional trainers that make the bears perform silly antics and dances for the tourists. Or they may go to rural villages when the men think it isn’t safe to be near the cities.
