Saturday, January 18, 2014

Slaughterhouse.


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So I am an animal lover and of course reading this book broke my heart. I can believe how miss treated animals are just so humans can be satisfied. I make me wonder if the tables were turned would we all be so much against it. As horrible as it was to hear these things happening to the animals, I couldn’t stop reading. It opened my eyes to see that not only were the animals in dangerous situations, but also the workers. They were forced to put their lives out on the line each day. Please don’t get me wrong, I am a meat eater, maybe even a meat lover, but i will admit reading this has changed my views. Reading about all the injections that they put into the animals that we also intake as well makes you think if it’s really worth it. Let’s take a second to think. If the animals are being injection then killed, were eating their injected meat only to die later? This is sad. We see meat as nourishment so we kill animals to nourish ourselves when in reality buy killing them we are killing ourselves.

 

Down the street from my house I have a meat market; you can smell it from the parking lot. I remember going into one for the first time with my grandmother. I couldn’t believe how you just go in there get some meat and go home. It wasn’t real to me; i couldn’t understand how the workers wanted to touch it and couldn’t possibly understand why they wanted to sell it at that age. In the book Slaughterhouse people constantly complained, they even went to the major. Nobody wouldn’t do anything i couldn’t believe that. Even with the people dying.


Listed here is a atricle about SlaughterHouses that still exist:SLAUGHTERHOUSE CURRENTLY TODAY




 


5 comments:

  1. All the issues around the treatment of animals are so upsetting and gross! I haven't read Slaughterhouse, but I have read similar books and articles so I think I probably have the gist. It's interesting that relatively few people are really bothered by what goes on in animal slaughter. I guess it's easier not to think about it . . .

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  2. I could never read this book since I love animals so much. It is so disturbing to know the way animals are treated and I wish there was another way, since it just seems so cruel.

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  3. It would be interesting to find out what the standard industry response to this cruel behavior is. I am also curious as to how conditions in slaughterhouses have changed in the past decades.

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  4. I wonder how conditions in slaughter houses have changed in the past few decades. I am also curious about the standard industry response to this cruel behavior.

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  5. My sister is a vegetarian and she's trying to convince me to reduce my meat intake. It's really hard for me to carry out this plan because I spent my whole life on a very heavy meat diet. My sister also warned me about how the overuse of hormones and preservatives essentially taint our meat. Sickening.

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