I seldom click on videos showing animal cruelty. It's actually been a long time since I have watched one of those undercover videos showing animals being treated in ways that I honestly cannot believe anyone would support.
That changed today. I don't know why, but I clicked on a video from Mercy For Animals showing men torturing, beating and killing pigs. The men work for a pig factory that supplies Walmart.
On our blog and on all of our social media we do not post videos of animal cruelty. We do offer links to animal rights groups we support that have those videos on their sites.
I believe this type of cruelty happens everywhere animals are produced for food. It happens because there is little regard for the life of these animals and also, in a very simple way, because they can. They have the power to do terrible things to these animals and they do it.
I unequivocally support any group that does these undercover
investigations. People need to see what happens to animals in order for
them to become their dinner.
Or their Easter ham.
I cannot stop thinking about the video I watched earlier. These workers were hell bent on inflicting fear, terror and pain on these pigs. Nothing was going to stop them.
The only thing that can stop them is the consumer.
If you eat meat, in this case pork, you have the power to stop the cruelty. The video I watched is only the tip of the iceberg of what happens to pigs on a daily basis throughout the country.
Although I haven't looked into the purpose of the video, I am pretty sure it was part of Mercy For Animals campaign to get Walmart to stop using certain suppliers, including the one in the video.
We have the power to stop it. We can be a voice for these voiceless creatures who are treated in such a pathetically terrible way.
If you would like to see the video you can go to the Mercy For Animals website here: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/
The only way to not support animal cruelty like that shown in the video I saw is to go vegan. Don't support the inherent cruelty that is part of taking animals that are living and breathing and feeling to create your steak, pork chop or lamb chop.
Thanks for reading.
I try not to watch these videos too much any more but once in a while I need to see one just to keep my energy up. It makes me despair for the notion that we can change the world by appealing to compassion. I just don't know.
ReplyDeleteI have such a hard time watching those videos too; they stick with me and are incredibly upsetting. People who eat meat need to watch those, but of course, they won't because they know it may actually force them to look at what they're eating in a much different way--and that scares them.
ReplyDeleteI tend not to show cruelty to animals on my animal rights vegan blog also, but I provide a ton of valuable information, trying to come up with new ways most people have never heard or thought about regarding being a vegan activist. We need to support all beings--animals and people--and of course our planet. This is what veganism means.
ReplyDeleteTerrific article guys!