Animal Slaughterhouses...?

Question

I do agree with eating meat but what I don't agree with is the brutal way they treat animals in slaughterhouses! What are some things you can do to change this? How can we persuade them to kill animals more humanely?

Answer 1

You need to stop eating meat. simple.

While you buy meat you are paying for thier actions. They will only change when the money dried up. By giving them money, you are condoning what they do.

By buying meat, you are directly responsible for slaughter house practices. Its simple, if you can live with that, good on ya, but you need to face facts. You cannot say you eat meat but don't agree with slaughter house practices - the 2 statements don't align

If you were against land-mines would you buy shares in a land-mine company ?..... Its peoples actions that define thier morals, not words. If you are against something, you shouldn't support it.

Answer 2

Those people you mentioned can be divided into two groups: (1) Slaughterhouse workers, hunters, fishermen etc. - For those people, it's usually a tradition. If you grew up in the country, watching animals being killed every day from your earliest age, how natural would it be for you to question that practice? You would have to make a supreme effort to renounce a practice you grew up with, a practice condoned by all your family members and friends. (2) Animal testers - Those people usually believe they are acting for the good of mankind. They think they are saving human lives by testing drugs, radiation and other harmful stuff on animals. They are far more dangerous than the first group, since their way of thinking could be extended to the human realm (sacrificing a handful of people to help many people). But the bottom line is that both groups are mentally the same as everyone else. They are deluded, but not evil or mad. If you infer there is something wrong with their brains, you're being very unfair towards them. I believe that good and reasonable campaigns will gradually convince even such people. It may take many generations, though. Bad habits are hard to break.

Answer 3

Have you been to a slaughterhouse? I've never been to a large scale one, but killing is killing. Stressing an animal out before you kill it is probably what you're talking about. Anyway, if you don't like that thought, buy your meat from a small local butcher shop with it's own kill floor, the meat will be better quality from there anyway. Going local is usually more expensive, but usually also results in a higher quality product, meat included.

Answer 4

There is absolutely no way to kill anyone humanely. So there's no way to have humane meat until they figure out a way to do large-scale vat-grown meat. When companies refer to "humane" meats, it usually means the animals had a better life than is industry standard. But they're still killed in the same slaughterhouses as conventionally raised animals.

If you don't like the way animals are treated in the slaughterhouses, you're just going to have to go vegetarian.

Answer 5

You know this is what is wrong with our world...people would rather 'not think about' unpleasant things. Of course if you 'don't want to think about' a suffering animal then you don't have to deal with the fact that you paid for it's throat to be slit or a captive bolt gun shot into it's brain and 'not thinking about it' somehow makes it ok. It's not ok at all. If you are unwilling to think about the fact that animals are suffering and dying so you can have way more protein than you need, heart attacks and other diseases than you shouldn't eat it to begin with. Go vegetarian and actually try and make a difference in some 2,000 animal lives instead of 'not thinking about it.' Imagine if people just didn't want to think about slavery? What then?

Answer 6

Death is about as brutal as it gets. The choice to eat meat comes with a price: slaughterhouses and death. There's no way to make that pretty.

Answer 7

Don't give money to the factory farming industry. I don't know how you find meat that hasn't gone through the slaughterhouses, though. Maybe find a local farmer with humane practices?

Answer 8

The slaughtering of them isn't the only problem. It is also how they are raised and transported. It really is a horrible unimaginable thing happening to them. They best thing to do is protest and not support these industries by becoming vegan or vegetarian. Also sending letters to public representatives, and even local newspapers. One day, probably not in our lifetime, I believe that things will change for the better. But we have to fight now to get there in the future.

Answer 9

Vote with your dollars. Anytime you purchase something, you're supporting the company that makes it. Don't buy things you don't support, and let the companies know why.

Edited to add:
Go to www.eatwellguide.org. Type in your zip code. If you aren't going to go vegan, then buy your meat & animal products from one of the local farms you find there, where the animals had some semblance of a normal life before being slaughtered.

Answer 10

I eat meat! I try not to think of how the animals are killed! I've watched my grandpa slaughter pigs and chickens before. They way he killed them is the best way! Slaughterhouses are evil