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Title Linda McCartney once said, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone in the world would be a vegetarian”.
Attention grabber opener when you look down at your plate u see dinner but what was it before dinner? It was a living, breathing, feeling animal.
Opinion statement Farm animals destined to the slaughter houses should be treated with care and respect so they at least have a good life. When they are in slaughter houses they should be killed quickly and painless but sadly it’s the opposite.
Reason#1 an animal that is going to be slaughter does NOT have a good life and it doesn’t end with a happily ever after.
Evidence But you would think they would be happy to get out and have it end. Well you’re wrong. When cows are in a slaughter house they can smell blood and the cries of fear. Their fear causes adrenaline to go through their system and then who ever orders a burger eats it. People don’t know what really happens in slaughter houses and most don’t want to know. But more people should know. The full process to slaughter a cow is very painful and disturbing. It includes removing their horns by pressing a hot iron and them for 30 seconds per horn. Roosters are luckier (or what the cows would call lucky) they are gassed right away. For horses they have one chance to be saved from the slaughter house
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Reason #2 I can’t stress it enough that animals are treating HORIBOLY in slaughter houses, but they also live a cruel life.
Evidence before the slaughter house, like many people knows chickens live in small cramped cages and they can’t even move. When shipping pigs they cram then into a truck. Some are on top of others and there isn’t any room to move or breath. It’s like how they make veal, people but a calf in a crate they the cant move at all in so their muscles can’t grow. Some of them never see sunlight till they are transferred to the slaughter house.
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Reason#3 there are people that just don’t eat meat all, others just cut back from it.
Evidence most people I know of want to stop eating meat but cant because they like it so much, it’s like a drug to them. There are people that think they not eating meat will make u unhealthy or stunt your growth, but really the only negative affect is that you will need to find an alternative to get protein. Just drink more milk and take vitamins. Without all the meat you consume less fat. I’ve never had a meal of meat and either has my family scence my great grandpawho was in time magazine for it. Also people who eat red meat have 20% more of a chance of having cancer.
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Reason#4 some people care but most don’t.
Evidence when people say that 20% of farms let their animals live a long nice life they just don’t want to think that what they are eating suffered a great deal. Under covert tapes show that the workers play games with the chickens like trying to get as many as they could on one hook when the machine stopped. In slaughter houses they slowly kill the animals. For the cows they take they apart little by little and sometimes let them layout for weeks. Another under cover tape shows pigs stuffed in a crate being slowly dipped into a tank of water. For Mc Donald’s it wouldn’t cost anything for them to kill the animals differently. People could get in a lot of trouble for leaving a house with your pet there to die but when there are buildings all over the world that kill animals in the worst ways nothing happens.
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Conclusion Animals that give us so much including their life have been treated with the least amount of respect and care. People need to eat meats that have labels on it saying that it is Kosher or humane certified meats. Slaughter houses should be shut down unless they are accepted by the humane society. When animals are treated so badly and the only thing we get form it is a good taste that soon goes away then why do we fight arguments about it and have people breaking the law to stop it?

THANKS!!!

By: Maya K

my mom wants one too and so does my brothers but he doesnt and there this irish setter in my area that i really want! and its only $200 so it woulnd be a money problem

see, my mom grew up on a farm and she had cats, dogs, horses, rabbbits, mice, pigs, chicken, a monkey and who knows what else. and it seems so unfair…
and my dads parents didnt want any pets my mom said one day he came home with a lost dog and his dad said that hev has to let it go.

and i dont see why he woundlnt want one there not that much work, and i would take care of it real good. they wont even let me take my grandparents irish setter for a couple of days to show that i would take great care of one.
oh yea and he likes dogs as long as there not his

By: .

but how is farms working out for people in aussie. like is the drougts a REAL big thing now or do u think its safe to live in a farm without having to worry about it burning to the ground in a wild fire!!
and what type of land/farms should i be looking for?
should i buy land and build r buy a house with land?

now getting to the point… what is some good advise or any thoughts about buying and moving into farms in australia.

also i would like horses as i am a rider but what about some different animals i cound have? like a pig, donkey, shetland pony, lama…
and what would i use them for?

thanks. the last thing i want is a slaugter house! but dad got a job and were moving in december!

By: ~~hay-feaver~~