But somehowsomewheresomeway there really IS a way to violently and torturously kill animals humanely …

There is a comment on the above video by Mike indicating, “This is a truly disgusting video and i appreciate the efforts in exposing the atrocities. There is a way to humanely raise livestock for consumption. I’m not a vegan, but I also don’t condone abuse or torture of animals.”

It’s odd that Mikes never define what they mean by “way”.

And it’s disturbing how comfortable nonvegans can be with atrocities inflicted on animals, by NOT defending the animals AT ALL, instead referring to some intangible, utopian realm where animals transparently “condone” the “abuse and torture” of their bodies so humans don’t have to “expose the atrocities” relentlessly inflicted on them as … the “way”.

When you acknowledge and admit animals endure torture, abuse, and atrocities, but still trivialize animal suffering as secondary to you (I appreciate, I’m not, I also … and zero explanation of way), you hypocritically demonstrate that you are unopposed to violence and the subsequent suffering required of animals.

(And remember: the animals sentenced to violence and death – and all animal exploitation is rooted in violence and death – fuels other animal exploitation: it’s all related. Both killing a “grass-fed” cow and eating a CO2-killed pig anywhere supports the abuse of “worthy” horses and cats and dogs and whales and elephants and koala bears elsewhere as exploited not only for food, but also for fashion, entertainment, research, testing, religion, education, etc., it’s one globally violent foundation created and maintained by nonveganism.)

Decent people make the connection between torture, abuse, and atrocities inflicted on animals AND necessity of veganism to minimize it, but if you continue causing suffering while waiting for someone else to illegalize it, and/or selfishly suggest veganism is unnecessary or irrelevant but unable to clarify or define the nonvegan “way” to not violently harm animals – even though, in and of itself, SLAUGHTER is always HARMFUL – your concern is inward, for yourself, and not for the victims of your 100%-meaningless moralistic platitudes written online, because, really, what is more humane than actively minimizing harm?

Because …

To the animal victims, nothing is MORE humane or ethical than a human NOT being an animal exploiter.

And on the topic of “harm”, how ignorantly blissful it must be to continually deflect from “killing”, diminishing “killing” by implying that, because you VERBALLY “care”, killing is insignificant, a minor event, while also casually dismissing animal existences of:

loss of bodily autonomy

rape

mutilation

the stealing of infants

and confinement

as “ok” because, for example and as implied, animals “don’t have to be factory-farmed” (even though globally, the vast majority of animals exploited for food ARE – animals forced to exist in a CAFO/intensively farmed/factory farmed environment). To be fair, though, loss of bodily autonomy, rape, mutilation, the stealing of infants, and confinement of animals, not to mention violent slaughter, is inherent in all size “models” of “animal farming”.

We’re ALL animals, killing is “abuse”, if you need to defend animal consumption by saying animals don’t need to be factory-farmed, well guess what? Animals don’t need to be slaughtered for you, EITHER, you just prefer to label animals’ abused existences and harmful slaughter as “humane” and vaguely refer to somewheresomehowsomeway as “evidence”. Your fairy tale, willful ignorance, and blind faith aren’t, though; animal suffering is fact, and the only animal that benefits from animal exploitation is the human animal.

Or if you desperately claim that you kill animals to ensure they don’t become extinct, you’re lying

1. given the amount of animals who are extinct due to 

2. nonvegans destroying their habitats to grow crops to feed the animals nonvegans eat,

AND you cannot convince me that you care about an entire species when you can’t be bothered to NOT violently harm even ONE animal of that species.

People don’t kill animals to prevent animals from being killed. You’d support sanctuaries that rescue animals, animals who are then safe from exploitative NONVEGAN harm including violent slaughter.

Ever notice, too, how Mikes never provide their video evidence of “humane” violation and “humane” family separation and “humane” slaughter?

I wonder, do you cowardly choose, as a nonvegan, to NOT look at images or watch videos and documentaries that demonstrate globally pervasive atrocities inflicted on animals because the footage is too violently traumatizing, but never admit that, if it’s too violent to watch, imagine how it is for animals forced to suffer it.

(By the way, do you derogatorily refer to vegans as weakoverlysensitivesoyboycrybabyblahblahblah, vegans who DO watch, who DO investigate, who DO protest, who ARE activists in a predominantly normally-violent and apathetic society, a society that willfully maintains and participates in an ongoing animal holocaust? Or, in attempting to justify how you ignore animal suffering because a vegan is sharing evidence of it, I also wonder if you do NOT use any information about animal consumption, then, if it’s from people who also consume animals?)

Disturbing, too, is how many Mikes have the audacity to claim, for example, that cows and pigs are bad mothers.

Always vomitous how the death industry validates extreme confinement – necessary only for maximizing profit – such as in gestation crates and farrowing stalls, of individual mother pigs as necessary to “protect” baby pigs from their mother pigs violently squashing them…………………………….. Ever wonder why mother pigs don’t violently squash their babies when NOT being exploited for your bacon? And what about elephants? Where are all the death industry cheerleading activists demanding that elephants be extremely confined to “protect” their infants?

Imagine living – existing – in your bathtub. The only time that pigs exploited for food are able to walk and turn around is on their way to be viciously and terrifyingly and squashably killed in the slaughterhouse with CO2, the globally-standard form of stunning pigs, also known for causing extreme pain and suffering.

Ever notice, too, how Mikes love to claim that separation of mom and baby is beneficial?

It’s embarrassing how so many people believe this lie, but they desperately cling to it so they can feel comfortable harming animals, but really, in what galaxy is separation of mother and infant necessary for species’ health and longevity?

Maybe perpetual adult breastfeeders need to ask themselves why they believe such while farmers reproductively exploit cows and then deny the maternal bond they facilitated as financially and verbally supported by the feigned ignorance of the masses.

I should also add that farmers have manipulative “tips” on how to separate mom and baby immediately to minimize grief: why would you need to minimize grief if grief was nonexistent? And too, I have asked separation supporters how they respond to “ahimsa dairy” (where calf and cow are not separated): are the ahimsa dairy supporters wrong? Are they cruelly harming calves by “allowing” them to stay with moms? Nobody ever answers me, it’s just so much easier for both dairy supporters to rage on vegans, vegans who don’t cause harm …

And if you’re struggling with “should they be separated, should they not be separated”, just remember, calves don’t benefit from being forcibly removed from their mothers and killed if male or sent to a calf ranch if female, and they don’t benefit from their mothers being reproductively exploited in the first place to force their existence: even ahimsa dairy is based on a human-centric model requiring animal exploitation, pain, and death.

(FYI: the baby animals are taken so that mom’s milk can be stolen for a DIFFERENT SPECIES, BEYOND INFANCY and WITH TEETH and calves are also isolated/separated so that they won’t engage in “cross sucking” – trying to nurse/root because they’re not with their mothers or being behaviourally stimulated – on other calves or objects causing profit losses for “their” animal enslavers/abusers.)

Ever notice, too, how Mikes claim that cows loveLoveLOVE to be “milked” but experience zero emotion when being violently slaughtered?

Or that the “28-hour rule” is based on “animal welfare“? Or, in other words, “human welfare” – to feel comfortable with the horrific conditions forcibly inflicted on animals in the transport “stage” of violent animal exploitation: would you be fine with 28 continuous hours of transport with no water, food, or rest?

And if your response is that AnIMalS aRe DIfFeRenT to try to rationalize their suffering, don’t compare yourself to animals then: bUt OtHeR ANiMaLs EAt aNiMaLS.

(Did you know that mother cats suck out and consume the feces and urine of their infants? Or that they ignore and/or consume their dead or dying infants to prevent them from attracting predators? Do you, as a human, do that? Are you in prison?)

Or that CO2 is like falling asleep?

Or that chicken slaughter is based on “good practices”?

Or that animals are killed “humanely”? It’s important to understand that even “humane” isn’t humane: in the USA, AVMA defines the goal of “humane slaughter” as being, “without unnecessary pain or distress” establishing that pain and distress in slaughter is necessary and therefore that humane is not. Do be aware, too, that actual veterinarians are not the people employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse, and that 9 billion of 10 billion just-land animals killed each year in the US are exempt from the Meaningless and Oxymoronic Methods of Humane Slaughter Act.

Or that farmers care? (USDA, page 33)

Or that ranchers care? (USDA, nonpredator and predator deaths, all preventable)

Or that killing animals prevents animals from being killed? This is a common non/antivegan “rationale” which neglects to account for: “dairy” consumption’s “worthless” babies ; the animals who are condemned due to preventable disease and suffering ; killed for AI ; killed by predation HERE and HERE; killed via transport ; killed for other animals who will be also killed; killed by crop harvesting by nonvegans for crops eaten by animals; killed by crop harvesting by nonvegans for crops eaten by human animals; killed as animal “pests” in slaughterhouses, CAFOs, crops, and barns and other places in the “anag chain” ; killed for nonconsumption reasons such as testing, research, entertainment, religion, education, etcetcetc.

Or that humans care?

Or that there is no federal law “protecting” animals exploited for food (I mean, in what universe can animals be “protected” while being intentionally bred, diseased, raped, and murdered???), that all animals exploited for food are exempt from the Meaningless and Oxymoronic Animal Welfare Act, and that, again, 90% of animals slaughtered are exempt from the Meaningless and Oxymoronic Methods of Humane Slaughter Act?

And when people “accuse” vegans of being angry, what I want to know is why nonvegans are not angry at such injustice, except when a cat or dog is abused, neglected, and/or violently killed. Imagine feeling that way about all animals to a largely indifferent and willfully ignorant global population, included in which are people paid to actively lie, deceive, and trivialize veganism, people who have made it their mission to do nothing but attempt to shame vegans, based on their “hatred” of vegans, using the most vile and inhuman narratives (mocking the death of children if their parents are vegan is one example of the perversion antivegans engage in).

Bottom line and anitivegan behaviour be damned, if you’re not vegan – and I know you can be, that humans have the capacity to be empathetic and decent, and the ability to value nonviolence vs normalize it, and to practice justice rather than selectively apply it – you’re an animal abuser, as was I prevegan, and before anyone has an absolute meltdown, ask why you’re triggered by my words and not by what inspired my words. Because you are not the victim. SL

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