Many of
us don’t know how our food is being grown. The books CAFO Reader by Daniel
Imhoff and Slaughterhouse by Gail A. Eisnitz are telling us a painful and shocking
story behind our food processing. In this blog I will discuss about “Farm to
Fridge” by Mercy for animals, our modern farms and slaughterhouses confine
thousands of animals such as chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows in small spaces
under unbearable and horrifying conditions. They are denied from fresh air, sun
light, and exercises. Workers of these slaughterhouses/farms kill animals
ruthlessly, crudely, etc. I have seen in this video that our domestic animals,
such as chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs are the most abused animals as well
as the most neglected animals by the workers.
I’ll start with chickens and turkeys, the video shows how male baby
chicks do not even live for more than a day, as they are dropped into a grinder
right after their birth, killing them. There’s even more, male baby chicks are
also killed by being put in a plastic bag which suffocates them by the workers.
The female baby chicks have it even
worse; their beaks are chopped off forcefully with a laser and put them in a tiny
wire cages. Same things happens with the piglets. When pigs are sick or have an
illness they are slammed to the ground head on killing them instantly or
killing them by carbon dioxide. There are more, Cows are unfairly treated
because their tail, nerve, and bones are cut off without any painkillers
similar to what happens to female baby chicks. In addition, Baby cubs are
forcefully taken away from their mother, never meeting each other again.
According to the Slaughterhouse,” skinning cattle while they were still alive”.
This means how the helpless animals are tortured and dismembered alive. "It is also really dangerous for the skinners and
the rest of us” (Gail A pages 29).Gail says while live cattle’s skinning some
of workers are injured because at that time cattle violently fighting and
struggling to survive. That’s not all, there are many other animals are living
in overcrowded and filthy conditions, as well as being confined to cages that
are as big as them. Is this a food that we consume everyday?
