Two kinds of people slaughter animals:

1. the kind who don’t enjoy killing animals, and
2. the kind who do.

Should either kind of person kill animals?

Warning: video is disturbing.

Case Studies:

1. “The hardest part of the slaughter was the betrayal,” she said. “The pigs get in the trailer because they trust you, they get out of the trailer because they trust you, they go into the pen because they trust you.” NY Times via Animal Person.
2. “You may look a hog in the eye that’s walking around down in the blood pit with you and think, God, that really isn’t a bad-looking animal. You may want to pet it. Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later, I had to kill them — beat them to death with a pipe. I can’t care.” Slaughterhouse via Vegans of Color.
3. “If you jump on their stomachs right, they’ll pop … or their insides will come out of their [rectums],” and other Butterball workers frequently bragged about kicking and tormenting birds. Butterball slaughterhouse workers via PETA.
4. “The attempt was to make them so distressed, to cause them so much suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse,” HSUS via CBS.

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