I have decided that this is the very last comment I will ever make on this forum regarding this. It is not just 'those' people whom I condemn for the treatment of animals. My own country is just as bad in the treatment of animals. The food industry is so guilty of atrocities committed upon living creatures. The methods that they use are barbaric. Every time I hear about it on the news or anywhere makes me livid. It is one thing to use animals for food but another entirely to abuse them. There is no excuse for mistreatment of any living creature for any reason.
The methods used here in the poultry industry are abominable as well as the others. Clipping the beaks of the little ones, over feeding so that they get fatter and the basic overall treatment of them is sickening. Gavage-based foie gras production is disgusting as well and this is a French thing, but Chicago recently repealed the ban on this. The treatment of cows that was shown recently in California is inexcusable.
I will say that the one practice that really puts me over the edge is the beating of a puppy so that it will have extensive internal bleeding to make it more palatable when cooked and eaten. It is not that it is a puppy. It is that it is a baby animal treated so badly and creating such intense pain for a living creature. I don't care how 'tasty' the end result may be, destroying an animal in this way for our own pleasure is beyond awful.
My one comfort in all of this is that I know God sees everything that they do. Each and every one of them. |