That made me cry and angry too. Bastards. I don’t eat meat, but I understand that other people do. No need to be cruel though.
No need to be cruel indeed, but the fact is, most people don’t give the slightest toss about the source of their meat/dairy.
The reason that…..slaughterhouse workers get away with abuse, chickens get their beaks clipped and dairy cattle are milked until the chronic mastitis is so bad they can barely stumble to the milking parlour…. is nothing to do with government legislation and everything to do with end consumers. Anyone who eats milk, meat or eggs is DIRECTLY responsible for the treatment of animals that produce them. If they didn’t buy it because of the practices that go on, then those practices would change.
A few people may even say ‘aww, that’s awful’ the government should do ‘this’ and ‘that’ – but what they really need to do is take a long hard look at their own actions. Ultimately though, most people are careless, selfish and just don’t believe that causing an animal pain amounts to abuse if the end result is a pre-packaged product in a supermarket.
I have much more respect for people that say “I honestly don’t care” than those that say “oh, I wish I could be veggie, but….” or “yeah, it is awful what goes on, but……..”