"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful. At the same
time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel
called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.
The huge, powerful meat and dairy industries are very secretive about the oppressive conditions affecting not only their non-human victims, but also their human workers, many of whom are foreigners – Mexican, Latin American, and Asian. Even though meat packing is the most dangerous industry in the United States, workers are so afraid of being fired, that most are silent about the suffering that they endure; and many vent their frustration in horrific cruelty toward the animals who are at their mercy.
In any discussion about animal abuse and slaughterhouses, it is very important to include the dairy industry because, once their milk production wanes, cows are expendable and sent to the slaughterhouse. Of course, since the milk production of cows depends on the birth of calves, the vicious cycle continues as their male babies, after cruel confinement, are killed for veal.
“Due to oppressive conditions…turnover rates in many plants soar. After
quitting, thousands of legal and illegal workers recruited from pockets of
unemployment end up looking to slaughterhouse communities to pick up the
social costs associated with their joblessness and resulting crime. Disabled
workers…find it impossible to ever work again. Drained of their usefulness
to the slaughterhouse, they’re cast aside, reminders of a system that places
nearly as little value on human life as it does on animal life.”
– From: Slaughterhouse – The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane
Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A. Eisnitz.
Also visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-slaughterhouse.html
Also be sure to visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/index.html
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