To think bad of people that work in slaughterhouses??

[RiverMeadow]

I was reading something earlier and it got me thinking about the members of staff who actually work in slaughterhouses and who see these things first hand.

Regardless of whether you eat meat or not we're all still human and I'd assume it's a job that's a very hard one emotionally... or am I wrong?? Do the colleagues just look at it like a job and not physically killing animals? It would break my heart 😭

[Carouselfish]

And to the pp who said we've been killing animals for meat forever, not in a factory setting, like it doesn't matter, like they aren't living creatures aware of what's happening. I also totally judge people who have been to one and still eat meat. Lack of empathy. Bizarre.

[SerendipityJane]

I also totally judge people who have been to one and still eat meat. Lack of empathy.

Or hungry.

[WhatTheWay]

At best they are cold with zero empathy. At worst they are sadists who play football with the chickens and stab pigs I'm the back while riding them around for a laugh-

That's a ridiculous statement. I'm not like that and none of the people I worked with were. I'm not saying that every single
Person who works in an abattoir must be perfect as there are bound to be a few who aren't. I must have worked in 5 or 6 different places. All were clean, humane and professionally run.

[Iminaglasscaseofemotion]

Some really wild and nasty assumptions being made about abattoir workers on this thread.

[Iminaglasscaseofemotion]

Would people say that about nurses and doctors who carry out abortions? No, and their posts would be deleted, and rightly so.

[Bizawit]

@elessar you think working in a slaughterhouse is “a very compassionate thing to do” ?!! the feats of logic that the human mind can conjure. Extraordinary.

OP YANBU.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

II also totally judge people who have been to one and still eat meat

I totally judge people who whine "Oh no don't tell me what happens to them. Pooor animals I don't want to think about it . How awful , I can't bear it"

And then eat meat .
That animal didn't throw itself onto a blade
Steak doesn't grow in a field . ( Cows do)

If you are going to eat it , own the knowledge .

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[crosstalk]

@rivermeadow Vets are present in the slaughterhouse to check animals are fit to be slaughtered eg not diseased and whether they are properly dispatched. However there aren't enough vets and we'll lose those we get from eg Spain with Brexit. The smaller and often kinder slaughterhouses haven't been able to justify the cost of vets and have closed. The huge problem is the length of travel so animals travel for hours to slaughter which is distressing especially with no water. The old small slaughterhouses dealt with ten or so at a time and put them into layerage (stalls with food) before despatching them individually.

[RiverMeadow]

@crosstalk Thank you for explaining that, I had no idea.

[ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia]

Goats punched, hit, kicked and ‘left lame’ at farm supplying milk to Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose and Ocado, video shows

Regretting about highjacking this thread but I saw and wanted to share here if appropriate. I am speechless beyond words and simply wondering where do these people come from and what is wrong with them? To provide food context I and family eat a balanced diet including a variety of meat, seafoods and vegetables etc and pretty much all food groups (especially experimenting with super foods) but trying to cut down on meat and dairy and things like this definitely helps to recalibrate ones thinking!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/goats-milk-st-helens-farm-yoghurt-hit-kick-animal-cruelty-video-a9639021.html

[ZeldalovesLink]

I am speechless beyond words and simply wondering where do these people come from and what is wrong with them?

From the demand created by meat eaters. Stop eating meat and you stop facilitating abuse and cruelty in slaughterhouses. It’s basically that simple.