Disgusting Facts about Slaughterhouse

I don't too often point out the animal rights when I explain why I don't eat meat, but today I was reading "Skinny Bitch" and was quite disgusted by how animals are killed at a slaughterhouse and how workers abuse them. That's right. ABUSE them!!!

The followings are quotes from slaughterhouse workers (from Ch.6 in Skinny Bitch),

"I seen them take those stunners - they're about as long as a yard stick - and shove it up the hog's ass...They do it with cows, too...And in their ears, their eyes, down their throat...They'll be squealing and they'll just shove it right down there."

"Sometimes I grab it [a hog] by the ear and stick it right through the eye. I'm not just taking its eye out, I'll go all the way to the hilt, right up through the brain, and wiggle the knife."

"Only you don't just kill it, you go in hard, push hard, blow the windpipe, make it drown in its own blood. Split its nose. A live hog would be running around the pit. It would just be looking up at me and I'd be sticking, and I would just take my knife and - cut its eye out while it was just sitting there. And this hog would just scream."

"I've seen live animals shackled, hoisted, stuck, and skinned. Too many to count, too many to remember. It's just a process that's continually there."

"I seen guys take broomsticks and stick it up the cow's behind, screwing them with a broom."

"One time I took my knife - it's sharp enough - and I sliced off the end of a hog's nose, just like a piece of bologna. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it just sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt brine and ground it into his nose. Now that hog really went nuts, pushing its nose all over the place. I still had a bunch of salt left in my hand - I was wearing a rubber glove - and I stuck the salt right up the hog's ass. The poor hog didn't know whether to shit or go blind."

In America, they take a really good care of their pets, particularly dogs. A dog is a part of family; people don't call themselves "owner" but "guardian". While they treat dogs so well, how come they can torture other animals such as cow, pig and chicken??

Another disgusting fact is how filthy a slaughterhouse is. This is beyond my imagination...

“the poultry plants are filthy. She said there were flies, rats, and 5-inch long flying cockroaches covering the walls and floors. Believe it or not, it gets worse: ‘After they are hung, sometimes the chickens fall off into the drain that runs down the middle of the line. This is where roaches, intestines, diseased parts, fecal contamination, and blood are washed down. Workers [vomit] into the drain….Employees are constantly chewing and spitting out snuff and tobacco on the floor…sometimes they have to relieve themselves on the floor….The Perdue supervisors told us to take the fallen chickens out of the drain and send them down the line.’ ”

“One time we shined a flashlight into a hole they were crawling in and out, and they were so thick it was like maggots, you couldn’t even see the surface.”

“I personally have seen rotten meat – you can tell by the odor. This rotten meat is mixed with the fresh meat and sold for baby food. We are asked to mix it with the fresh food, and this is the way it is sold. You can see the worms inside the meat.”

Speechless...