Animal Aid have unveiled some undercover footage taken in three different UK slaughterhouses. Here is a 10 minute video showing what happens before meat appears on your plate.
I really think every single person who eats meat ought to watch the video all the way through. I know no-one wants to see cruelty - but if you are contributing to animal deaths - ie. eating meat - then it ought to be compulsory to watch this video and other similar videos. Everyone wants to avoid it. People don’t want to see an animal being abused or hurt - but this is what happens. If you like to eat a beefburger, a sausage roll, a piece of lamb, steak, a pork pie, bacon… This is what an animal goes through before ending up in the packet in the supermarket, all for 99p or £1.59. Is it worth it? Especially when you can get veggie sausage rolls, veggie pork pies, veggie burgers, veggie bacon. Why do you need to buy the one that is the result of torture?
If you think you can’t watch it, why not try with the sound down? When you can’t hear the sheep baa-ing out in fright, it’s a bit easier. When you don’t hear the sound of the metal clamp being thrown about after the slaughterhouse worker has stunned a sheep, or a terrified squealing pig falling to the ground in the last few seconds of his life, it’s not quite so bad. Try it.
If you really, really, really can’t force yourself to watch the video, this is some of what is included:
- Pigs and sheep going to the knife without adequate stunning
- Pigs and sheep stunned and then allowed to come round again
- Pigs, sheep and calves crying out and struggling to escape
- Pigs being kicked in the face and sheep thrown to the floor
- Pigs and sheep with illness or injury being slaughtered
- A sheep too sick to stand – or possibly already dead – being brought to slaughter in a wheelbarrow
- A ewe being stunned and killed while her young was suckling her
- Ewes watching as their young are killed
- Pigs falling from the slaughter line into the blood pit and being dragged out and re-shackled while other pigs look on
- An inadequately stunned young calf lying kicking on the floor and the stun operator standing on him to keep him still
More info is at: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr_factory//2188//
