When all you have are euphemisms …

Watch this brief documentary and listen to slaughterhouse employees who used to “kill for a living”. I provided some quotes below in response to people who want to pretend that slaughterhouses are nice places where humane considerations are practiced. They’re not. It’s a SLAUGHTERHOUSE where defenseless, vulnerable animals go to die, where the goal is DEATH and since the goal is DEATH, nobody actually cares about animal lives or their fear and pain. Even the most “textbook” death is the destruction of life in a place called Hell.

Imagine your dog or cat going to one and then argue against the fact that nothing good happens in a slaughterhouse; it’s exhausting trying to convince people that a place, designed for death, using barbaric machines and mechanisms of death, is not “humane”. And FYI, it’s really not even called “Humane Slaughter”. It’s actually called Methods of Humane Slaughter because slaughter is NOT “humane” but it’s easier to convince people to focus on, for example, “stunning” methods rather than violent death. (Stunning using captive bolt, by the way, which has a high failure rate here and here and stunning using CO2 in UK, proven to cause extreme pain and suffering and also used in USA.)

None of which describes the horrors animals are required to experience BEFORE violent killing: mutilation, violation, assault, fear, separation of child and mother, mockery, abuse, confinement, and pain.

And for the people who think that the “observed” violations (do note that just in the USA, BILLIONS of animals are forced to die yearly, how many are actually “observed”?) penalized by a stern letter proves the “system works”, remember: even ONE torturous death proves the “system” DOESN’T work.

Why? Because people don’t care that it doesn’t, they just want to pretend that nice words describing acts of violence make it okay.

Imagine being an animal having to actually experience your “euphemisms”. SL

Source Earthling Ed, YouTube

In this short Surge documentary, released on #WorldVeganDay, we meet Doug, Susane and Carl, ex-slaughterhouse workers from the UK, Mexico and New Zealand. Each share their experiences working in the business of killing animals and shine a light on an industry that exists in the shadows of society.

In 1906, the author Upton Sinclair released his novel The Jungle. The book, which became an international bestseller, is a fictionalised account of Sinclair’s experiences interviewing slaughterhouse workers and researching the conditions that they were working in. In the novel, Sinclair describes the workers becoming so desensitised to violence that the number of brawls, rapes and murder began to rise: “There is but scant account kept of cracked heads in back of the [stock] yards, for men who have to crack the heads of animals all day seem to get into the habit, and to practice on their friends, and even on their families, between times.” The reality is, we expect people who spend every working day repetitively stabbing chickens, pigs, cows and lambs to hang up their bloody aprons at the end of the day and then just integrate back into normal society.

Slaughtering animals is an inherently violent thing to do and the emotional burden of doing so day after day is not something that can shrugged off lightly.

Quotes:

The animals know, they literally know, the evidence is clear to anyone that witnesses them, that they’re abt to die.

Most of them were very, very frightened, terrified even.

There are 3 possible responses to when an animal is about to be killed:

1. Fear, they’ll be trembling, cowering, & trying to hide

2.Trying to flee, run away

3. Fight to survive

They (animals trying to not die) will frustrate, annoy a worker at the wrong time on the wrong day, & quite often you’d see someone hitting the animal inappropriately – not that there is an appropriate way to hitting an animal – but using the bolt gun on parts of the body that they shouldn’t, shooting them in the back instead of brain, electrocuting them in the wrong place such as their testicles.

I saw a lamb escape from the kill floor, who had run around fully conscious & aware, panicking, the smells would have been horrific, the blood, seeing dead bodies … and all the people were laughing.

There was absolutely no guideline, nobody said, “Oh, you’re not supposed to do this to the chicken or you’re not supposed to kick them, you’re not supposed to treat them this way, the guideline was to get the job done.”

The most disturbing thing I saw was when animals weren’t stunned properly, they died horrible deaths, a lot of them regained consciousness just prior to having their throats cut, this was quite common.

Stunning would be missed so a pig would have his throat cut, or both (stunning & sticking) would be missed, which would be where the screams come from, and gone into the boiling tank fully conscious.

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Humans create excuses as sustenance
To cling to and justify their ignorance
Erecting a tower of disingenuous babble
As into their cruelties they
Heartlessly dabble

Karen Lyons Kalmenson