From The Intercept
The meat industry depends, more than anything else, on walls. The walls of farms and slaughterhouses prevent consumers from seeing what the production of their food really looks like. They prevent journalists and activists from exposing unethical, even criminal acts within. They enable corporations to paint happy, bucolic pictures of their operations that bear no resemblance to the reality of modern-day factory farming.
To get inside those walls, over the last two decades, dozens of activists have gone undercover, finding employment on factory farms and wearing concealed cameras, shooting hundreds of hours of footage over the course of months on the job. They have documented the routine acts of mistreatment and abuse of animals that are an inherent part of raising livestock for slaughter with maximum profit in mind.
The videos they have produced have made an enormous impact on the industry, grabbing headlines, pushing consumers away from meat, compelling retailers to pull products from shelves, and even causing government regulators to temporarily shutter some farms.
In response, the industry has pushed to criminalize undercover investigations, through legislation known informally as “ag-gag.” Ag-gag laws target activists in a variety of ways, from imposing criminal penalties on investigators for misrepresenting themselves on employment applications to outright banning the collection of footage on the premises of animal agriculture operations without the owners’ permission.
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Wife and I grow chickens — laying hens and companion cocks for eggs year ’round, a couple waves of Cornish Cross meat birds during the year for meat. Once upon a time, we thought to raise organically fed, free-range birds not only for ourselves but also for local restaurants. To sell birds to other “commercial enterprises” required processing at “USDA certified facilities”. If you think the “processing” of our live chickens through that system is somehow more “humane” than how we butcher our chickens, you are a flat-lined flatlander.
In 2018, there were nearly 12,000 registered lobbyists in Washington DC. Who do you think the vast majority are employed by?
Ther one issue that cannot be argued is that Halal and Kosher meat is ANIMAL CRUELTY
I don’t know what they do to chickens; but what they do to cattle is insane. I will never buy Hallal beef again.
A bolt to the head verses having the throat slit and thrashing about for ten minutes. Being slaughtered while still alive. Yea right.
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