today was nothing much. it was aaa lecture and the lecturer keeps going debit credit debit credit till i was confused. LOL. heng i still keep my poa notes. =x but i too lazy to refer.




im a vegetarian today and sockz was saying about how animals faced cruelty when they are slaughtered. in fact, she has already been telling us for the past few days.

i went to research about it because i seriously feel bad about it.




i extracted an article i read on the web:
"...more than 9 billion chickens raised on factory farms each year in the U.S. never have the chance to do anything that is natural to them. They will never even meet their parents, let alone be raised by them. They will never take dust baths, feel the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, roost in trees, or build nests."

all these chickens.. died of a brutal death just to fill our stomach.

they spend their entire lives in smelly sheds with thousands over other birds and suffer from overcrowding and confinement which leads to outbreaks of disease. a normal chicken took 14weeks to grow but because of the high demands of chicken, they were forced to grow within 5weeks. they are bred and drugged to become large such that their internal organs failed to work as per normal. there are even some who suffer heart attacks, deformities and even organ failure. from the article, they are even some chickens who died because they are not able to reach the water nozzle due to their crippled legs! and with only 6weeks or 7weeks old, they were forced into cages for slaughter.

that's not all.

hens (who are supposed to lay eggs) were crammed together in a battery cage (a size of a file drawer) such that they didnt even have space to spread their wings. cages are then stacked one on top of each other and the wastes (shit) of the chickens in the higher cages would fall on chickens that are of the lower cages. AND because the area for a chicken is SO SMALL, their beaks have to be cut off so that they wont peck each other due to frustration. NOT ONLY THAT, when the hens became unable to produce due to exhaustion or age, they are shipped to slaughter!! and because their flesh are badly injured and battered, they are normally used for chicken soup or cat/dog food.

imagine, your fingertips being chopped off. the pain is no going to go off within a few seconds can. -.- ohmanx.

and male chicks are killed because they are unable to produce excessive flesh for the industry. every year, more that 100million of these chicks are ground up alive or tossed into bags to suffocate.

WTF? they just died innocently without knowing the reason why they got killed. how sad is that?

on their way for slaughtering, because the crates are so small such that the chickens are all slammed inside. they would face weather extremes along the way. and they were injured from broken wings to legs, and some, even died due to stress from the journey.

at the slaughterhouse, they are badly tortured such that their legs are snapped into shackles, throats are cut, immersed into scalding hot water to remove feathers. the worst part is, when they had their throats slit or skinned, they are still in a conscious state. some chickens were even literally scalded to death if they didnt had to went through thoat cutter.

WTF. i would never imagine anybody in the right mind would ever slaughter a chicken. they faced so many chickens everyday, wont they feel guity about it? are they so numb such that they had no feelings?

im not saying that you have to stop eating chicken right at the moment you read this. ALL im trying to do, was to just convey the message that to reduce eating meat. i know its not possible for one to stop eating meat straight away.

last time i ever ask my mother, how is it feels like to wash a fish before its cooked. cause i feel damn digusted whenever i see the fish lying deadly, which seems to calling out for help through the stare it gave me. my mum always replied that, when the fish its cooked or fried, it always seems NICE and APPEALING to the consumer but few would have ever think of the people who killed it or washed it.

if i ask you to wash a whole fish/chicken, clearing the dirty stuffs inside, i bet you feel disgusted.

or maybe not, if you are that cruel.


here are some more:

cattle - castrated, horns ripped out of their heads and third-degree burns are inflicted on them

cows - drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk. their babies were stolen away from them shortly after they were born. they were send to notoriously cruel veal farms so that we are able to drink the calves' milk.

mother pigs - confined to crates much smaller as compared to them so that they are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably.

fish - live in cramped, smelly enclosures which may lead to parasitic infections, diseases and debilitating injuries. they were in a horrible condition such that 40% of the fish may die before farmers can even kill them.

turkey - similar to chickens.. their beaks and tows are burned off with a hot blade. may suffer from heart failure or debilitating leg pain which often became crippled due to their genetically manipulated and drugged bodies.


everybody can play a part.

by minimising your meal diet, you can save more than 100animals in a year!!

* eating chickens is bad for your health. people who frequently ate grilled skinless chicken had a 52% higher chance of developing bladder cancer compared to people who didnt.
(a major 2006 Harvard research)

* eating chickens can make you go impotence and your neh big. =x

all you can do, was to eat more vegetables. (:

Chew on this!
30reasons to go on vegetarian.


‘Kentucky Fried Cruelty’ with Pamela Anderson




(source:
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/c-videos.asp#pamvid)


Bless you.

they DO NOT deserve to die under your tastebuds and afterall, they are all living things like we do. please do your small little part. save an animal today. (:

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