Hey Factory Farmers: Find A New Line Of Work!
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Tracy at Digging Through The Dirt discusses the battle we have with animal exploiters:
“In other words, animal exploiters are in the battle of their lives. They are worried that they will lose their “social license to produce food animals,” that the thought of eating animal flesh will soon be as accepted as smoking a cigarette is today.”
“It is a battle — and one that we will win because we have good on our side. For animal exploiters, it’s all about money. For us, it’s all about animals’ lives.“
(Emphasis added)
Tracy’s article exposes how the factory farming industry is training animal exploiters to tell tall tales about ‘responsible animal husbandry.’ They’re supposed to tell stories about “spending cold nights in your barns with your animals” because “Consumers want to know you are looking after your farm animals just as carefully as you are your family.”
As Tracy put it: “my family members don’t kill other family members.”
The animal exploiters can try to spin it however they want, but they simply can’t get around the fact that they KILL animals. And they KILL animals unnecessarily. Fundamentally, people are uncomfortable with death and killing. There’s no getting over that fact no matter how many tall tales they tell about treating farm animals like pets. In fact, the more farm animals seem like pets, the more distasteful meat will seem.
It’s a no-win situation for the KILLERS. Either treat farm animals like machines and you seem like a monster or treat farm animals like family and then KILL them and you seem like a monster. Animal exploiters should just give up and find a new line of work.
Yes, their attempts to reinvent their image is all over the animal agriculture and meat industries websites… They even use the phrase “moral high ground”… and urge farmers to “tell their story” (about naming the (pre-killed) animals who are *just* like family)…
From a recent article I read their plan is to blitz the internet and youtube to counter the damage done by animal “rights” and animal “welfare” groups… They plan a “campaign” to intice women shoppers to become “Beef Ambassadors” by giving them an array of kitchen merchandise and free meat products…
I couldn’t help but chuckle though… they are dismayed that part of their “check-off” dollars can’t be spent on advertising as they need the money to further investigate dangerous prions and pathenogens in the “food” they say consumers “demand”…
What a bunch of wasteful hype, double-speak and outright bullsh*t…
~ Recent blog post: SLAUGHTERHOUSE MEAT PACKER VIOLENTLY KILLS 5 YEAR OLD SON ~
I was buying straw for my garden from a farmer recently. He had a few cows, sheep, chickens, and other kinds of animals who he raised for meat. When he saw that I am a vegan (probably my vegan hoodie gave me away) he quickly started to tell me about how well he treats his animals. Since he is an extremely small scale, hobbie farmer, I didn’t doubt that his animals led relatively good lives. In fact, the animals seemed to trust the farmer and some of them would follow him around the way my dogs follow me around. They are always interested in what I am doing, if I am going to give them food, or if I am going to play with them. In a lot of ways, the farmer’s animals were like pets. And that thought absolutely horrfied me…
What a terrible betrayal of trust to raise an animal with love, as if they are a part of the family, and the sell them out to a slaughterhouse (or even to kill them yourself) just because you like the taste of their flesh? I could never do that to my dogs! I would do anything to protect my dogs because I love them. The thought of them being killed is horrfying to me because I love them. When this farmer told me he loves his animals I realized that he didn’t mean he loves his animals in the way that I love my dogs. He meant that he loves his animals the way someone might love their car. He loves them as things that could be used for his own selfish purposes. He doesn’t love them like pets (companion animals), or family members because people don’t kill their pets or family members and then dine on their flesh.
I think it goes without saying that the way animals are treated on factory farms is much worse than the way this farmer treats his animals. But in both cases, the people who are involved in raising and slaughtering animals only care for the animals as things to exploited for personal greed.
Farmers who “love” their “food” animals… with friends like that – who needs enemies?
~ Recent blog post: 10,000 CHICKENS BURNED ALIVE FACTORY FARM FIRE ~