So let's face it... from the blood and guts to the flesh eating no human carnist has anything over on Marque de Sade or any other upright walking monster. Ironically though... most trick or treating kiddies are escorted by their watchful parents - lest any spooks harm their babies. Meanwhile we humans steal the infants from other species... And "thump" the runts... And suffocate or crush the un-usables...
So - all the ghouls and gobblins - If your eating meat you've managed very well to turn life into a hideous nightmare for countless innocent victims... And if you have a hard time sleeping tonight - if you hear things go "bump" inside your head... Perhaps it is your conscious that is haunting you - Easily remedied: Go Vegan (boo!)
• Do you want to make a difference in helping protect our nation’s food supply?
• Are you interested in improving public health?
• Does working in meat and poultry establishments interest you?
FSIS IS CURRENTLY OFFERING SOME AMAZING RECRUITMENT INCENTIVES INCLUDING A SIGN ON BONUS OF UP TO $50,000 OR EVEN MORE!!
Unbelievable I know... But this is an ad for one of the 1,100 "veterinarian" positions offered by the USDA. And here is the ax I grind with these "vets":
Rightfully so most people assume that animal doctors would be interested in the health AND life of their patients... But looking through the job announcement - There isn't even the mention of an "animal" at all... (Save a line about the new classification of "catfish".)
Instead there is this: "Our mission is to protect the consumers by ensuring that the commercial supply of meat*, poultry, and egg products moving interstate in commerce or exported to other countries is safe, wholesome and correctly labeled and packaged". And as a hired "vet" one would be responsible for validating that the "stock" is healthy enough to kill... And that the carcasses are " healthy" enough to consume. What a job for someone who's name implies "care giving"! It's a ruse! And no wonder the USDA and the meat industries are begging for applicants! There's such an element of betrayal in surrendering your patients to the butchers... Not to mention the false respect and admiration that the general public gives to the institution as a whole.
The general public should see in every vets lobby the prime directive of the AMVA - It's whole duty is to insure animals can be optimally "used".
Still, they are required to insure that: "Animals should be cared for in ways that minimize fear, pain, stress, and suffering." Guess the captive bolt gun, electric stunning paddles, throat slitting, eviscerating and head-dropping procedures don't count... After all these vets are also supposed to oversee that "Animals shall be treated with respect and dignity throughout their lives and, when necessary, provided a humane death." Does anyone really see "respect and dignity" as these innocent beings hang upside down swallowing their own urine, feces, vomit and blood? Please... clue me in if you do!
As a healthy vegan I KNOW none of this is necessary... But let's see now if it's even "humane"?
"Humane" means to be concerned with the alleviation of suffering. These beings are not ill, maimed or otherwise "unhealthy". They are not in an aging pain. They are delivered "fit for living", so there is no "suffering to alleviate". There is only the needless murder of victims for profit. That's it! Anyone using the word "humane" including "food animal" vets needs to own up to reality and stop with the pretty pictures all ready! No "needless" death is ever "humane". (period).
And there really is no surprise here: In the entire application for these slaughterhouse "vets" this one little question is sadly absent: Do you even like animals? But of course that's irrelevant - They're there for the blood money - That is the meat of the matter...
Finally... Let's just dispel this last myth... How "appetizing" are carcasses, tissue, muscle, veins, blood and bone anyway?
No "gory" HSUS, PETA, MFA, COA, etc. video here... Just a real honest look at the (yummy) USDA footage...
Yep - just "pork" "beef" "lamb" and "chicken" ---
"Healthy" ones at that... despite all the drugs they were injected with...
In conclusion... Vets - There really are better jobs out there!
Consumers... There really is a better way of eating -
Society... There is a better way of living...
In a truly "humane" way.
One cannot be a meat eating "environmentalist" - Nor can one be a "speciesist" and call themselves a progressive thinker... If you're not vegan - You might ask yourself whose political baggage are you carrying around?
So sad that farmers, "livestock" owners, and slaughterhouse workers - do very similar acts all day long... Without a tear from them or their patrons...
Pity for poor animals who are not privileged to be "moral" beings...
I was cleaning out some accumulated files and I just couldn't let this one go without comment.
This article proposes that there is a possibility that coyotes and other wild-life might be "trained" to develop a dislike for their normal diet. It's called "Taste aversion". "The idea is to leave bait laced with a chemical that makes a predator sick, but only for a few minutes. The predator eats beef with a nausea-inducing chemical, becomes sick and loses its taste for cattle".
Anyone whose read my blog or who knows me can predict where I'm going with this: Seems a much simpler solution would be for humans to develop a "taste aversion" to cows, chickens and pigs... This way we might reduce all the killing for the sake of our own UNNECESSARY wants.
The wolves and coyotes as "predators"...
What a sad joke!
Please consider a nonviolent way to eat and live... Go vegan -
We mark'd the slaves [whom] we had bought on the breast or shoulder with a hot iron, having the ship's name on it, the place being before anointed with a little palm oil, which caused but little pain, the mark being usually well in four or five days.
The iron must also be cleaned and reheated before branding another slave...
As you purchase slaves, you must mark them at the upper right arm.
The area of marking must first be rubbed with candle wax or oil; the marker should only be as hot as when applied to paper the paper gets hot...
The surgeon stamps the slave on the right shoulder with an iron which gives him the mark of the shippers and the ship --- it will never come off.
Be sure to tie the slave tight to the branding rack. ... Give Your slave the opportunity to recover from the branding. ...
Branding to the left shoulder, heating the mark red hot and rubbing the part first with a little palm or other oil and taking off the mark pretty quick, and rubbing the place again with oil...
To those who still comfort themselves with the notion that their "food animals" are killed nicely... Here's an updated report which is a continuum of the same "humane" violations documented by AWI in 2008: Crimes without Consequences: The Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws in the United States.
Readers who still don't want their meat "bruised" might take a look to see that many times facilities were cited and fined - Some with up to 34 "humane" violations in 20 months. And that's only when some one's looking (10 -12 times/month)... And that's only 1 or so billion pigs, cows, goats and lambs... It doesn't even take into consideration the 9 billion chickens and turkeys NOT covered by the happy... I mean "humane" slaughter plan.
So I guess it comes down to this: You have to get down on a knee and pretty please beg the enforcement officials to spend some of the pittance of 2% of the budget to oversee that things are being done "right".
"Right enough" so young steers aren't hit on the head 5 times to get in line for the kill. "Right enough" so that a delivered hog isn't shackled and drug to his position on the queue. "Right enough" so that a baby "veal" calf isn't "excessively and repeatedly" electrically prodded into a pen or forced to stand. "Right enough" so that young lambs aren't picked up by their wool and thrown on to the ground. "Right enough" so that a hog isn't shot 6 times to finally "die". "Right enough" so that a calf doesn't regain consciousness after having his throat slit... "Right enough" so his mother doesn't wake up dangling upside down in the middle of the air... Choking on her own vomit, feces, urine and blood.
"Right" enough for you?
It comes down to asking people to please really think about what it is you mean when you say you are "humane". And please, please be very aware that these animals don't wish to die... And that animals feel terror and pain just like you do. And that their lives mean something to them... And that it --- All the "humane", "happy", regulated, legal, institutionalized, "traditional" and "nice" animal killing is totally unnecessary... You pay people to do this to animals because you haven't questioned enough to see what's being done "right" or not. I just wonder though ---
At the very least... Can we quit with the fakery of the word "humane"?
Even under the "best" of circumstances... Nothing "humane" happens in the bowels of a kill floor.
"Humane" means to be concerned with the alleviation of suffering. These beings are not ill, maimed or otherwise "unhealthy". They are not in an aging pain. They are delivered "fit for living", so there is no "suffering to alleviate".
There is only suffering and blood shed to cause - Without need... Without "reason". This is a mad system of ruthless, unnecessary carnage masked by a thoughtless, convenient lie. Please know the ruse is up! You don't fool anyone but yourselves.
Please consider plant based alternatives & compassionate vegan choices.
Truth is stranger than fiction so they say... It really becomes obvious when you read articles like this from the American Veterinarians Medical Association. The spokesman for the livestock industry... The one who is supposed to be the "ethical" voice of animal agriculture suggests that "AVMA should abandon advocating for the human-animal bond in favor of fighting for the right of animal owners to use animals as they choose, whether that entails companionship, food, or labor." Translated: Vets should encouraging people to stop having empathy towards nonhumans. That's right! He's saying that "the veterinary profession, by emphasizing the importance of the human-animal bond, enables consumer hypocrisy, which is exploited by animal protection organizations."
I mean, just on the practical end - Isn't this about the most strategically short-sighted bit of advice one could give their constituents? Really... If vets tell their patient's guardians that there's nothing all that special about Scruffy or Mitten - Won't they stop caring if shots are up to date? Won't they stop spending their money on their now "insignificant" companions? I mean - What's the motivation to invest in the care and well being of somebody if you don't love them? If there's no valued relationship between one's "pet" as a treasured family member... Why bother with the vet bills?
I guess this odd piece of (desperate) "advice" ranks up there with Mr. Jamison's other doosie of an idea. Out from the bag of best tricks animal ag has, Jamison pulls out this blunder of recommending slogan shirts that read "Happiness is a Dead Animal". So bad and so embarrassing an idea was this, that Hoosier Today pulled the original article. ---Fortunately, there are countless witnesses to document that the asinine faux-pas actually did occur: Veg Daily, xomba, Kim Stallwood, Extra-Veganza, PETA... Still, Hoosier Today did a presto disappearing act on the flubbed idea - Just like it never happened.
I suggest the AVMA might do the same regarding Jamison's latest advice as well... Cuz if you start telling people not to care for the animals in their trust... If you recommend that ---
Well, you might see a lot of vets on the unemployment lines.
I have no idea what Jamison gets paid to be the "ethical" voice for animal ag... But I'd probably consider contributing to his salary being that he does far more harm to the livestock industry than not. Thanks Wes! A pleasure to exploit your callous ignorance! :)
If you believe as I do that animal ag's "moral high ground" is vanishing in the now civilizing world... Opt for the ethically consistent choice: Go Vegan.
729 pigs were in a transport truck... Guess they were heading "to market" when the truck overturned, killing 385 of them. A witness said "“I’m glad everybody’s OK. I was worried about the driver."
Three vets managed to "save" the others an awful death inside a tomb of steel. And happily they were able to make their scheduled rendezvous into the caring hands that waited for them at their journey's destination!
Yeah... Surely there they were treated nice and "humane"-like. Don't cha think?
Your little sausages and chops cost others so much... Please won't you choose a compassionate vegan menu instead?
