Humanity...a rant
If anyone drives much on 11E you will see the trucks that transport the chickens to be slaughtered in Morristown. Often you will see one on the road that has fallen out and died. I was beside one today. It absolutely horrified me . I cried. I have read about factory farming and slaughtering. Chickens are not included in the 'humane slaughter act', yet compromise 95% of all animal slaughter for food in this country. All I could think of was they were living in those tiny cages unable to move and finally moved to something on a truck, where they got the most of 'outside' they have ever experienced on their way to their death. When they arrive, they will most likely still be living when they are dunked in boiling water and even still alive when they come out to have their feathers taken from their body and torn apart. They are filled with rage, fear and stress from the event. That makes their body produce all the things our body would produce at that moment, lots of adrenaline and hormones to cope with that level of stress. So, after they are slaughtered, you are eating that fear, stress and rage, along with the antibiotics and growth hormones they fed them. All b/c someone wants it for their 'pleasure'. We could use all that energy on sustainable fairly traded crops for farming! We could feed the entire world if we gave up the extent of our factory farming here.I would like to have 200k, but I won't take a life from a being b/c of it! Why are we OK with taking lives, that are lived horribly and inhumanely just to be slaughtered painfully, Murdered actually, b/c of our 'want'? If people had to pick out a chicken, send it to the slaughterhouse and witness what it went though, I doubt many would want it after that, they would feel guilt, remorse, and shame, appropriately.
We live in a different world where killing others doesn't have to happen. No one wants their dog killed to eat, but what makes that being different than a cow, a chicken or a pig. They are all just as intelligent and able to feel pain and emotion as a canine.
We are so removed from our food source that we don't consider what suffered for our 'pleasure'. Including farmed crops - if wages or living conditions were fair, or if we are buying locally to avoid the huge carbon imprint that shipping blueberries from Chile causes.
Being a responsible consumer, trying not the harm others - us or other animals, should be paramount. Are we not evolved enough to not want other people to be harmed or animals to die for our own selfish needs? I'm embarrassed for all the consuming and hurt this country causes to have "pleasure" in their diet....
Love love, Julie
posted by Julie @ 7:01 PM
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