Nov 4, 2010

How to Stop the Production, Transport and Slaughter Line - Go Vegan

This story  Digging Through the Dirt: Two Trucks Hauling Pigs Crash This Week reminds me of  many others I've seen regarding road accidents while transporting "livestock"... It should be a wake-up call for those who think their "meat" was gotten "humanely".  These trucks get packed for the maximum load - These animals endure the most extreme of weather conditions - In the brutal heat of summer, the inside of these boxes can reach 120 degrees... In the winter - many animals are frozen to the rails, and their skin must be sliced off before they walk the final steps... And of course there is the occasional threat of a traumatic road accident.
"The Line" begins in the warehouse barns...
And continues with the tractors that relentlessly push the pedal to deliver the "product" with haste...
And then - the final "line": Each step... Faster, faster, faster... Can't wait to kill and eat those animals quick enough it seems. So sad.

Here's a song that tells the story of this endless line of carnage:
  Stop the Line by Rosebud
You can stop it... choose compassion .

4 comments:

Tracy H. said...

Bea, good point about how hot or cold it is inside those trucks.

Bea Elliott said...

It certainly is true that every step - The confinement - The shipping - The holding pens - Then the merciless knife-- Each has it's own unique misery to endure.

I was serious once when I made a comparison to de Sade. Sadly, man is such a cruel master of the "laws" which rule over "food animals". :(

veganelder said...

It is sobering and dismaying to consider all the effort and resources and time and thought that we human animals devote to the practice of terrifying, hurting and destroying living beings.

Bea Elliott said...

I'm late... But how appropriate a time of year to agree with you about all the fuss to terrify, hurt and destroy living beings. Then to top it off - To have to hear people complain about how much time, effort, labor and work it was to cook the turkey and clean the mess "it" left. Bizarre indeed! :/