'For a mouthful of meat...'

A veterinarian student in a slaughterhouse

A report by Christiane M. Haupt

The inscription above the concrete ramps reads: 'Only animals that are transported in accordance with animal protection laws and that are correctly identified are accepted'. At the end of the ramp lies a dead pig, pale and stiff. 'Yes, some die already during transport. From cardiac arrest.'


Quote: [...] There is no God to help the pitiful skinny cow that on my arrival at 7 o'clock in the morning is lying in convulsions in the drafty and icy corridor in front of the killing box. Nobody has enough compassion to put her out of her misery with a quick shot. First the other animals need to 'be taken care of'. When I leave around lunch time, the cow is still laying there, twitching. In spite of several appeals nobody has helped. I loosen the rope which was cutting into her flesh and stroke her forehead. She looks at me with her huge eyes and I learn then and there that cows can cry. [...]


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"But for the sake of some little mouthful of meat, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
-- Seneca (8 BC.-AD. 65)
Roman philosopher

Source: 'For a mouthful of meat...'
Author: SVV

Link: A sunless hell - Confronting the cruel facts of factory-farmed meat
Link: slaughter in Mexico - photos


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