I actually had some extra time to sit and watch the news this morning. Zac has no school this week, they are on school vacation, so it was one less person to get up in the morning.
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So I was watching the Today Show on NBC and happened to sit down when they decided to air the segmant about Westland Meat/Hallmark Meat Packing. What I saw on tv at 7 am in the morning was one of the most terrible things I have seen. Cows being dragged off of trucks by one leg, being rolled around the floor by use of a fork truck and one of the most disturbing for me was a cow who was laying down on the floor and some asshole was spraying it with water from a hose right in it's face. The direction of the spray, right at the cows nose. Ever get water up your nose? I have and I imagine that it feels the same for the cows.
Here is a statement put out by the President of Westland Meat/Hallmark Meat Packing. I certainly hope that he was not aware that this was going on. I find it very hard to belive that he didn't. Someone must have complained that this was going on. I honestly don't believe this goes unnoticed. How dare these people think that animals have no feelings. why do you think they we screaming and making noises? Because they liked it and were having fun? NO, they were scared and in pain, that's why.
I guess I just have alot more compasion for animals than I should. Maybe I am in the wrong line of work or something. There has to be something that can be done, how can you go home and sleep at night after you have tortured an animal before you kill it. I wonder, how do your pets at home get treated or even you family members. Granted you have a job to do, but it is not to torture the animals before they go to their death.
So it really wasn't the way for me to start my morning. Maybe I am a little late on getting this news, but it still makes me sad to know that people can actually do this.
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Oh my god! That has to be one of the most terrible things I've ever been unfortunate enough to see. Animal cruelty is horrible, I'm so sensitive about animals. Most of the time I have more compassion for animals than I do for people. The way I see it, animals are more helpless than people, they can usually not defend themselves.
My goodness, I'm just so horrified by this! This makes me glad I had my TV turned off! I hate the news, it always makes me so sad!
This makes me sad too! Esp the bit abt the water spraying! :(:(:(
How (*add every profanity you could imagine here*) cruel can some people be??? I'm appalled, really, really appalled.
Someone should get this people and do the same thing to them and I'd be the first one there clapping right along with the cows.
Geez, there really is no hope for the human race if we become worse than animals!
I just don't get it! It still baffles my mind and I find it really hard to believe that the higher ups had no idea that this was going on.
Its disturbing to know there are people like that out there. I hate people who are cruel to animals, the poor animals are so defenseless :(
I just want to cry when I see things like this, and then I want to yell at the people who do things like that. They should be locked up!!
I am appalled as well... Atrocities like this happen when people fail to honor the sacrifice the animal makes so that we may live.
I hold the owners of this slaughterhouse totally responsible for this... They should be making sure that things like that do not happen in the first place. Ever.
A blessing from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series:
O Lord, bless the blood and the flesh of this the creature that you gave me,
Created by your hand as you created man,
Life given for life,
That me and mine may eat with thanks for the gift,
That me and mine may give thanks for your own sacrifice of blood and flesh,
Life given for life.
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