But what about the animals?
In the eyes of the law and the industry, these animals are nothing more than (live)stock or merchandise. The terror and pain they have to endure by the meat industry are seen as irrelevant.
The only thing that matters to the industry and to many politicians around the world, is what the public believe is being done to the animals, as opposed to what is actually being done. This is how laws that prohibit animal organizations from filming inside meat farms came into existence, and why the industry uses dishonest marketing to generate a false perception that meat comes from happy animals.
Introspection
Perhaps the saddest part is that the monstrosity of Ventilation Shutdowns is just the tip of the iceberg. After all, these pigs, chickens, and turkeys are held in farms that torture them from the moment they are born. These animals endure mutilations (cutting off tails, teeth, beaks, toes), beating from impatient workers, extreme confinement, living inside filthy closed-up spaces filled with secretions, and eye-burning ammonia, and so much more.
For those of us who care, and there are many of us, it’s really time to ask ourselves if we want to continue to support an industry that does these horrible things to innocent animals?
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