People who can see an animal killed?

Question

Before I start, I am a meat eater, my question is how can drivers of HGV's visit farms knowing they are picking cow's sheep, pigs to there final destination, I am a HGV driver , and often see the heads of the animals looking out of the trucks with there eyes looking sorry for themselves but not knowing what is ahead of them, although they know what is about to happen the minute they arrive at the slaughter house....

So what does the driver feel ? I couldn't do it, could you ????...
Maybe I am to soft, or is it I have a heart, or am I been 2 faced, especially after eating a bacon sandwich......

Sarah C
I didnt really expain my self, I do not have a problem with the people who do it, I know I couldn't do it myself, although I would love to know how one person could and another can't , I know if I had to kill, then bang go's my sausage sandwich....
So I suppose you could say I am a hypocrite,but I think of myself as a concerned person, but I do not knock people who can bring themselves to keep our food chain going.
just a shame God didn't make us different...

Answer 1

being a vegetarian, i probably should pass ur question by.
but the reason i don't eat meat is from the despair i heard as a child living on a farm.
sheep, pigs, cows and sadly even horses know their fate.
their screams left me grief-stricken & i vowed never 2 b part of the factory farming death machine.

Answer 2

I'm vegetarian for the simple fact that meat is the vilest tasting substance that this earth has ever known. But I agree, to be so clinical about slaughter is shocking. Half the kids I know don't know how pork gets from the pig to the sausage. Magic perhaps. I bet a lot more children would appreciate what they eat if they were taken to a slaughterhouse.

Answer 3

" they know what is about to happen the minute they arrive at the slaughter house.... "

Peter; I'd have to catagorically refute that statement, mate. Based on personal experiance.

I used to work Security at an abbatoir (lunatics were sabotaguing the very lorrys you drive) and I would wander all round.

The sheep would be stood there, on deep clean straw. Quite content. The cattle ..... cattle are so bovine, they just react to the stimulae of the moment, much of their clouded lives. Pigs? I especially liked the pigs. I'd chuck them a crafty handfull of pig nuts, scratch their heads and wish them a good night.

I swear to ye; ONCE I saw a distressed animal. A cow. It was as if this poor damn thing had human understanding of its situation and fate. It was bellowing and leaping around in its solitary pen. It was quite disturbing. A/ Because it seemed mortified. B/ Because I was scared myself, in case it somehow got out and went to town with only me there.

Maybe that one cow was in isolation because it has (suspected) BSE or something? It was one crazy cow.

But the rest of the 'stock there? Calm as ye like, mate. Being transported may not be their cup of tea. But once everything's settled down again? Good as gold. Perfectly contented and oblivious creatures.

Here, in Eire, we still have tiny, local abbatoirs. The creatures go for a quick drive. Hang around in a new pen for an hour or two. Then become meat. Must beat the living sh!t out of one of us writhing, with cancer, in a hospital ward.

Answer 4

I feel the same way you do and I eat meat too. I guess that makes me a hypocrite. I understand your feelings. I personally can not slaughter an innocent animal but I know that it is being done when I eat a steak or whatever. However there are some people who enjoy killing innocents who cannot fend for themselves. They should be slaughtered and hung up themselves and I would actually enjoy that!

Answer 5

We have different morals and limits for different parts of out lives and kid ourselves that we have only one set and are consistant. You probably swear, do you swear in front of your Gran?

You're not being two faced, you're being normal. We all have limits and boundaries about what we'd do for money and you know where yours are. When you see a face you're aware that its a face. Its not a joint and some chops until its been through the slaughterhouse.
Some people can butcher but not slaughter.
Most of us agree that sick pets should be euthanased, we take out pet to the vet and hand them over. Not many of us would do it ourselves. And most of us eat meat. That doesn't make us hypocrites.

My brothers a slaughterman, he was sick on his first day. Now he's an old hand and used to it. He was desperate for the job otherwise he'd have walked out.

Answer 6

You are being 2 faced. I'm sure that pig wanted to live just as bad as the pigs going to slaughter.

I'm sure those drivers don't really concentrate on the fact that these animals are going to the slaughter house. At least they are killed quickly.

Imagine those poor animals that are used for fighting, breeding from maturity to death, research. These poor animals suffer horribly before finally dying.

Answer 7

Most of them are probably immune to it. In jobs like that you have to be. Just like the first responders and paramedics that have to see dead or seriously injured people, you just become immune to it. I know as a vet tech having to watch people put down their beloved pets was a very hard thing to do but it was part of your job and you find a time and a place to deal with your emotions. I know that it is hard if you watch them die, but if you try not to think about the fact that your hamburger was someone cow at one time, it helps (a little). Just remember, if you believe in God, He created certain animals that we were supposed to use as food.

Answer 8

I suppose they have to 'harden' themselves up to the idea.I could never have a job where animals are concerned. I am too much of an animal lover and would want to save them all... i am a carnivore and enjoy meat so i I can only thank the people who have this difficult task!

Happy Chrimbo

Answer 9

I hunt and the first deer I shot, I couldn't look at it. Then I got better and now I even learned how to skin them. It's still sad for me, but I am also a meat eater. So, I suppose we are all hypocrites. Even the vegetarians...........after all vegetables are living things also.

Answer 10

well they say if you can't kill a lamb, don't eat meat, but i am a meat-eater and i think that it is fair enough. people were made to be carnivores, we have incisors - teeth specially made for meat. but we were also made with emotions which obviously counteract the killing of innocent animals. i think it is fair enough to eat evenif you could never kill an animal. if the need arose - you would do it as a matter of survival. don't judge the HGV drivers, maybe they just need the money, they have probably become immune to it and just get on ith life.