Cowards Feel Powerful When They Abuse Or Kill Animals

Between October 2003 and May 2004, an undercover PETA investigator captured footage at a Pilgrim’s Pride chicken slaughterhouse in West Virginia, USA.
Workers were filmed violently and repeatedly throwing live chickens into a wall, picking chickens up by their legs and swinging their heads into the floor, and kicking and jumping up and down on live chickens.
According to a New York Times article on the investigation, this plant had previously received KFC’s ‘Supplier of the Year’ award.

Animals continue to suffer and die at the hands of ignorant humans with no conscience.
( Rose Winfold )

PETA’s 2005 investigation of an Alabama plant found the neck-cutting machines routinely missed, slicing open the chickens’ wings, faces, and other body parts.
Numerous birds entered the scald tanks for feather removal while fully conscious.
The plant was owned by Tyson, a leading supplier to KFC.

It is hard to overstate the role wilful ignorance plays in causing animals throughout the world to suffer.
( Milton Davidson )

In 2008, PETA released footage of two large plants, in Tennessee and Georgia, USA, where many conscious birds were mangled by the killing machines or had their heads yanked off by workers.
The plant was owned by Tyson, a leading supplier to KFC.
In 2015, the Humane Society of the United States released a video taken at Butterfield Foods, Minnesota, documenting the scalding of hens alive, forced upside down into tanks of scorching hot water in which they drown.

The real struggle in being vegan doesn’t involve food.
The hardest part about being vegan is coming face-to-face with the darker side of humanity and trying to remain hopeful.
It’s trying to understand why otherwise good and caring people continue to participate in the needless violence against animals just for the sake of their own pleasure or convenience.
( Jo Tyler )

Over 95% of U.S. land animals killed for food are birds, yet there is no federal law requiring they be handled humanely.
In the United States, virtually all birds raised for food are factory farmed. Inside the densely populated sheds, vast amounts of waste accumulate.
The resulting ammonia levels commonly cause painful burns to the birds’ skin, eyes, and respiratory tracts.

Cowards feel powerful when they abuse or hurt or kill animals.
( Wilfred Soon )

Undercover videos taken by PETA between 2004 and 2008 at two U.S. kosher slaughterhouses revealed workers ripping the tracheas and oesophagus from the throats of fully conscious cattle after the ‘ritual’ cut.
Some of the animals are shown writhing in pools of blood, struggling to stand for minutes afterwards.

If you have a blood-thirsty desire to kill, and feel the need to eat the flesh of others, as some wild animals do.
Why don’t you kill the animal yourself, without using cowardly weapons, but with your teeth and bare hands, and eat the flesh raw, like a wild animal?

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
( Henry David Thoreau )

The tiniest of kindness can save a life.

The Washington Post reported that, “Hogs, unlike cattle, are dunked in tanks of hot water after they are stunned to soften the hides for skinning.
As a result, a botched slaughter condemns some hogs to being scalded and drowned.
Secret videotape from an Iowa pork plant shows hogs squealing and kicking as they are being lowered into the water”.

In the slaughterhouse, the animals can typically smell, hear, and often see the slaughter of those before them.
As they struggle, they’re often abused by the workers, who are under constant pressure to keep the lines moving at rapid speeds.

Calves often try to suckle the fingers of slaughterhouse workers in their final moments before they are mercilessly killed by the same workers.

Every investigation carried out at dairy factory farms has exposed horrifically sadistic and needless acts of cruelty.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
( William Ralph Inge )

The mark of the coward is that he abuses the weak, the vulnerable, the helpless, the innocent, the defenceless.

No human can see the world the way animals see it.
No human can feel their life the way animals feel it.

We must always protect the homes and the habitats of those who cannot speak, the animals, the birds, the fish, and all living creatures we share this planet with.

Imagine having an IQ low enough to enjoy hunting.

Factory-Farmed Birds Killed For ‘Sport’.
Around 35 million pheasants and red-legged partridges, both non-native species in the UK, are released into the British countryside each year for assholes and perverts to shoot them.
These are not wild birds, they are factory farmed in much the same way as intensively reared chickens, yet are not protected by humane slaughter laws and many won’t even end up on someone’s plate.
They are farmed and shot purely for ‘sport’, with many wounded and left to suffer.
More pheasants and partridges are killed in the name of ‘sport’ in the UK than any other animal.

The Earth is infested with pathetic creatures with a sadistic desire of seeking power and control by killing animals.

Without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive, nor will we deserve to.

When there are too many human beings in a given area, we make way for them.
When there are too many wild, or stray, animals, we kill them.
( Diane Adams )

Getting your nutrients from ‘meat’ is like running your water through a sewer before you drink it.

By not consuming animal products is not the most we can do, it’s the least we can do.

Lord, why do you allow animals to suffer so much?
Funny you should ask that, I was going to ask you the same question.

Marketing spew such as ‘humane’, ‘cage-free’, ‘grass-fed’, and other jargon the blood-soaked, money-motivated ‘meat’ and dairy industries use are deceiving and false and used to fool the gullible masses.

The question is not “Do animals have a soul?”
The question is “Do we?”

Increase In Number Of Otters In Britain.
By the late 1970s, British otters were mainly confined to north-west Scotland.
Shetland still has 12% of the UK breeding population.
But now otters are no longer hunted (since the ban in 1978) and a reduction in the use of insecticides that accumulated in its food has greatly increased its numbers.
Less water is abstracted from rivers, which also helps and there is little or no use of their pelts.

There has also been habitat improvement work (even building artificial holts and ledges under bridges) and in some places otter tunnels under roads have greatly reduced road kills.
Otters are highly territorial animals with large home ranges.
Depending on the quality of the habitat and availability of food, males can range along rivers for 35km.

Sadly, otters will continue to try and use routes across busy roads if alternatives are not included in a mitigation strategy.
One authority recently stated that there were at least 8,000 otters in Scotland.
Otters have been spotted on the river Medway and the Eden in Kent and in Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester, on the Thames and the Lea in north London and in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, though we must remember that some conservationists see these sightings as evidence of otters roaming further afield into cities due to food shortages rather than a big increase in numbers.

It’s not all good news for humans either.
There has been a growth in heavily stocked fisheries (mainly carp), which has seen otters invading in search of easy feeding.
Even the owners of back garden Koi ponds have had expensive nocturnal or early morning visits from otters.

Like the reintroduced Red Kite and Buzzard the boom in populations is not without its side effects.
Non-native Mink, which feed on similar prey to the otters, are also impacting on fish and small mammal stocks.
( Steve Windsor, October 2015 )