This post will be summarizing the conditions inside factory farms and how
they produce the meat, which most of us eat daily. A video (linked above)
called "Farm to Fridge" by an organization called Mercy for
Animals unmasks the viewer from what is really going on behind the slaughter
houses in the country. It shows animals such as pigs, turkeys, chickens and
cows being abused in the most brutal and inhumane manner. The images of the
factory look exactly like an auto chop shop, but covered in blood, feces and
terrified animals.
Calling it shocking would be an under statement. To describe the footage
of animals that lived in a cage smaller then their own size their whole life
being bullied by under paid employees, who risk their own life every day. The
chickens are split into two groups, the male who dies within the first few
hours of its birth and the female chicks who have their beaks burn off and kept
in confinement until sliced in the neck. The piglets are castrated at birth
without antibiotics, and have their throat sliced letting it bleed out in
muscle spasms. Cattle are tortured every day by men who stab them with an
electric rod and have their tails cut off without painkillers. All of these
animals are physically abused by being smacked around, pounded, kicked, burned
and stabbed before their death, and the ones too ill to make it to our table
'clean enough' are brutally murdered with hammers, weapons, or by being smacked
on the ground until passing away.
The
events being shown in this video remind me of an interview Gail A. Eisnitz
reported in her novel Slaughterhouse with a previous employee of a Farm
Factory, where he describes similar situations to the ones mentioned above, but
the image someone creates by reading about these very graphic scenes cannot
possibly compare to the moment one actually sees the cruelty with their own
eyes.
