So I’m reading a book called Skinny Bitch. It basically talks about all the crap we put into our bodies due to the chemicals necessary for preservation and processing. Not only that, but just how our bodies react to certain types of foods… meat included. If you know me, you know how I feel about killing animals for our simple pleasure. But I just have to put it out there again. There is a section in the book that quotes slaughterhouse farmers and those who have seen the things that go on in slaughterhouses. It is absolutely sick and appalling to read. I read in horror and complete sadness for these innocent animals who are hurt in ways I couldn’t have ever imagined. And for what? Millions of people throughout the world to clog their arteries (by the way, chicken and fish is really not much better than pork and beef). I know there are many people who won’t pick this book up to read. Because of that, I feel the need to share some of these quotes from the slaughterhouse section. Beware… They are graphic. You might shed a tear. Your heart might break. But it’s real. Do you really want to be a part of that? Do you really want to eat something knowing how badly it had to suffer for your pleasure?? And don’t use the excuse that they were put here for that reason solely. I’ve heard it all before, and it’s a poor excuse. There’s absolutely NO excuse for this sickening treatment.
“I’ve seen them take those stunners – they’re about as long as a yard stick – and shove it up the hog’s ass… They do it with the cows too. And in their ears, their eyes, down their throat… They’ll be squealing and they’ll just shove it right down there.”
“Hogs get stressed out pretty easy. If you prod them too much they have heart attacks. If you get a hog in a chute that’s had the shit prodded out of him and has a heart attack or refuses to move, you take a meat hook and hook it into his ass. You’re dragging these hogs alive, and a lot of times the meat hook rips out of the ass. I’ve seen hams – thighs – completely ripped open. I’ve also seem intestines come out. If the hog collapses near the front of the chute, you shove the meat hook into his cheek and drag him forward. Or in their mouth. The roof of their mouth. And they’re still alive.”
“Pigs on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me life a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them – beat them to death with a pipe.”
“These hogs get up to the scalding tank, hit the water and start screaming and kicking. Sometimes they trash so much they kick water out of the tank… Sooner or later they drown. There’s a rotating arm that pushes them under, no chance for them to get out. I’m not sure if they burn to death before they drown, but it takes them a couple minutes to stop thrashing.”
“Sometimes I grab it [a hog] by the ear and stick it right through the eye. I’m not just taking its eye out, I’ll go all the way to the hilt, right up through the brain, and wiggle the knife.”
“Only you don’t just kill it, you go in hard, push hard, blow the windpipe, make it drown in its own blood. Split its nose. A live hog would be running around the pit. It would just be looking up at me and I’d be sticking, and I would just take my knife and – cut its eye out while it was just sitting there. And this hog would just scream.”
“I could tell you horror stories… About cattle getting their heads stuck under the gate guards, and the only way you can get it out is to cut their heads off while they’re still alive.”
“He’ll kick them [hogs], fork them, use anything he can get his hands on. He’s already broken three pitchforks so far this year, just jabbing them. He doesn’t care if he hits its eyes, head, butt. He jabs them so hard he busts the wooden handles. And he clubs them over the back.”
“I’ve seen live animals shackled, hoisted, stuck, and skinned. Too many to count, too many to remember. It’s just a process that’s continuously there. I’ve seen shackled beef looking around before they’ve been stuck. I’ve seen hogs [that are supposed to be lying down] on the bleeding conveyor get up after they’ve been stuck. I’ve seen hogs in the scalding tub trying to swim.”
“I seen guys take their broomsticks and stick it up the cow’s behind, screwing them with a broom.”
“I’ve drug cows till their bones start breaking, while they were still alive. Bringing them around the corner and they get stuck up in the doorway, just pull them till their hide be ripped, till the blood just drip on the steel and concrete. Breaking their legs… And the cow be crying with its tongue stuck out. They pull him till his neck just pop.”
“One time I took my knife – it’s sharp enough – and I sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of bologna. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it just sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt brine and ground it into his nose. Now that hog really went nuts, pushing its nose all over the place. I still had a bunch of salt left in my hand – I was wearing a rubber glove – and I stuck the salt right up the hog’s ass. The poor hog didn’t know whether to shit or go blind.”
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