#animal slaughter

[vegandude72]

#animal testing #rats #mice #speciesism #veganism #animal cruelty #go vegan #animal rights #animal suffering #animal slaughter

[strangebiology]

Happy to have found a recent review of literature regarding mental health, violence, crime etc in slaughterhouse workers.

The TLDR is slaughterhouse workers do have higher rates of mental illness like depression and anxiety, higher rates of crime, especially sexual crime, but not non-sexual violence. HOWEVER, the studies have limitations, and the possible selection bias means they can't prove causality either way. For instance, a lot of people who work in slaughterhouses are from lower-income backgrounds, which are associated with depression and anxiety. Also, if you have a criminal history, you may not have the opportunity for many jobs in your town except slaughterhouse worker.

#dead animals #carcass book #mental health #slaughterhouses #abbatoirs #animal slaughter

[devoted1989]

IN A FEW MINUTES I will be posting an upsetting image. I believe the message it portrays is worth more than the distress it may cause some.

#vegan message #vegan publicity #vegan strong message #animal slaughterhouse #animal slaughter #animal rights #animal cruelty #vegan #veganism

[homeofhousechickens]

How did you learn to process birds for eating? I’m thinking of someday hatching eggs from my own flock (or eggs bought from a breeder), and I’d want to be able to cull and process extra roosters. Do you have any tips and resources?

I taught myself cervical dislocation via youtube and watching other people do it which is also a good way to learn how to cut up the bird and cook it as well. Before i cull a bird I always refresh my knowledge so i feel sure and not shakey when i do it.

For people new to processing their own birds i suggest going with decapitation. Its a bit more bloody but if your using something sharp its instant and a lot harder to mess up. My tips for you is the day your going to cull the bird fast him for a couple hours (or all morning) so he doesnt have alot of fecal or food matter in his body. If you want to pluck the feathers rather then skin get your pot of boiling water going and ready before you start culling the bird. If you want to use the chicken blood hang the body over a bucket (or just hold it for a few minutes) then you can use the blood in various things or use it in your garden (for plants that love iron) but make sure its away from the coop.

Chickens have been a part of my life for a long time but the ways my grandmother culled chickens were not kind so i had to teach myself

Since you have wyandottes you already have a good breed to start with if you want to breed your own meat birds any cockerels out of those hens should at least be good and meaty after a few months.

#animal death #animal slaughter

[quotesfrommyreading]

Some employees in slaughterhouses, [Grandin] notes, rapidly develop a protective hardness and start killing animals in a purely mechanical way: “The person doing the killing approaches his job as if he was stapling boxes moving along a conveyor belt. He has no emotions about his act.” Others, she reveals, “start to enjoy killing and . . . torment the animals on purpose.” Speaking of these attitudes turned Temple’s mind to a parallel: “I find a very high correlation,” she said, “between the way animals are treated and the handicapped. . . . Georgia is a snake pit—they treat [handicapped people] worse than animals. . . . Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.”

  —  An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks, 1993)

#oliver sacks #temple grandin #an anthropologist on mars #psychology #autism #animals #animal welfare #animal slaughter #meat industry #ableism #disability #usa #georgia (usa) #capital punishment

[nerdykeith]

Next in bad arguments against veganism …

Ok the thing is this person is talking about two entirely different things here. On one hand what you are basically speaking of is Euthanasia, which I have no problem with. Be it an animal in pain or a human, we shouldn’t force the creature to remain in pain.

That is a very different thing to killing an animal for sport or food. Killing an animal for food or sport or supporting it, is for your own pleasure and nothing else. There is nothing compassionate about that. Yes I can be understanding to people who find the prospect of going vegan difficult. But let’s not kid ourselves here. What this individual doesn’t seem to realise is the method of ending the creatures life is irrelevant. It’s all about he context to why the being is being killed. Killing animals for food simply isn’t necessary.

To conclude we put down companion animals as means to avoid them continuing to experience constant pain. That is not what is happening when a factory farm animal is slaughtered. And if you did even a tiny bit of research you would soon realise that there are rarely less painful means of ending an animal life on farms (at least not factory farms)

PS - the user asks in their tags what are we supposed to do with carnivores? If it’s a wild animal? Let nature take its course. Pets or companion animals can adapt to a plant based diet. Yes they can. I’d suggest researching the topic properly before trying to dispute this fact. They can have a plant based diet and thrive on it.

#bad arguments #animal welfare #vegan #veganism #Euthanasia #false equivalence #animal rights #animal slaughter #justifying guilt

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god. #and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name. #it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable. #but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god. #so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything. #“give me your heart.” #“my god. it had always been yours.” #comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

[nerdpoe]

Danny needs a few...odd things. A few dietary and emotional requirements unique to his physiology. Meat is one of them.

But like, raw meat. He doesn't have to eat it often, maybe twice a month, but it does need to be completely raw.

He also needs to eat non-sentient blob ghosts, which are very different from sentient ones. Same amount, maybe twice a month.

He's weak to hot temperatures, where most humans require some sort of positive contact he needs to fight, if he gets too much sunlight his dopamine levels drop, and oddly enough as he got older milk or products with a lot of milk started to affect him like alcohol affects humans.

Now that he's made it to college, hiding most of these things is easy enough.

He chose Gotham, because of minimal sunny days and naturally cold weather. He regularly goes for walks at night, to fill his need for fighting. He says he has a milk allergy, and avoids milk products.

The blobs and the raw meat are a little uh. Those are a little hard.

He's taken to ducking into a bathroom stall to just swallow the blobs whole. But the meat...

He decides to sear the outside and leave the inside entirely raw. Does this detract from the nutrients by cooking them off? Yes. Does it mean he needs to eat raw meat four times a month instead of twice? Yes. Does it mostly hide that he's doing this in front of humans? Kind of.

Until he got a vegan roommate.

Said roommate is far too sharp-eyed for his own good, and now the guy is being weird.

Or: Damian's roommate is a meta who clearly has dietary restrictions outside the norm. It's fine; Damian understands that like animals in the wild, people have different diets. But the cuts of meat Fenton is eating are...subpar. Damian isn't sure how to be...civil, or appear polite, or not be a "snob" if he suggests Fenton allow him to procure farm fresh cuts of steak from cows raised in an open pasture and were well taken care of.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #affect vs effect #i still have problems telling the difference #damians breaking point is when danny uses a toaster to lightly toast the outside of the meat and can't understand what's wrong #goes and calls jon and just #“have your parents recently hosted a slaughter? have any of their neighbors? jon please” #cuz the meat is like offbrand gotham walmart meat #kinda grayish and def not healthy for fenton #he has taken care of many animals and he can force fenton to eat healthy #in the realms frostbite feels a surge of satisfaction #he has no idea where it came from

[pwrn51]

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#Animal Slaughter #ASPCA #Caging #Cruelty of animals #Evidential Mediumship #Immortal Energy #Jackie Jones Hunt #Pet Psychic #Psychic-Medium #Rape Rack Breeding #Tragic Lives Animals Live.

[mispatchedgreens]

welcome to another installment of 'what if the radiant emperor was a whole nother thing', vol. shounen manga

this was fueled by a completely normal post wondering abt ouyang's blade, and then me trying to figure out a universe where he'd wield the zhanmadao

#the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #zhu yuanzhang #general ouyang #esen temur #ma xiuying #my art #playing another round of is this even for anyone #in my days of ailment and suffering I've been doing nothing but watching anime #so these happened organically and like an evil prophecy coming to life #notice how i haven't drawn my oh tea pea bc Balance! #actually no I'm just too tired after painting that ma #maybe I'll do more covers later with the rest of these dickbags. and xu da. #this is the one where! ouyang escapes soon after all the ouyangs have been killed! #so obviously he ends up w zhu at some point and they're buddies and zhu lounges behind him and claps as he slaughters! #they're friends they're buds they're besties #and the ouyang esen business happens as unhingedly but more nemesis to ally to friend to crazyinsane no-straight-explanation manga mind meld

[valcaine]

it’s been so long

#since I’ve last seen my son #lost to this monster #to the man behind the slaughter #jaiden animations #qsmp jaiden #jaiden fanart #qsmp jaiden art #qsmp #qsmp fanart #me and my missing assignments are beating each others ass rn #and I am losing horribly #anyways yall voted jaiden I have delivered #art #digital painting #digital art #procreate #I know green cheeked conures are supposed to be like. green #but I colour picked the most violet looking one I could find because ourple #art more like fart

[vegandude72]

#bacon #animal cruelty #veganism #go vegan #eating animals #animal suffering #animal slaughter #animal rights #meat is murder #vegan #eating meat

[strangebiology]

The Science of Humane Slaughter

I asked an expert on humane livestock slaughter how we decided on certain methods of slaughter as more or less humane than others, from a scientific perspective.

He pointed me to this document (PDF) from the European Food Safety Authority called “WELFARE ASPECTS OF ANIMAL STUNNING AND KILLING METHODS:” Scientific Report of the Scientific Panel for Animal Health and Welfare on a request from the Commission related to welfare aspects of animal stunning and killing methods.

It's long, and old (from 2004) but it's a pretty useful document summarizing a lot of the science of why certain methods of killing may be more or less humane.

You can test a method, for example, by hooking an animal up to an EEG and monitoring its brainwaves after stunning it, or delivering a fatal blow (functionally killing it, but it won't always die instantly following a fatal injury, so you can still monitor it.)

Other ways of monitoring and measuring suffering include recording: how many times does an animal vocalize (moo, grunt etc) after being put in a chute? If it moves, does that matter, or is that a post-mortem or unconscious spasm? Does it immediately collapse, does it blink when you touch its eye (corneal reflex)? Is the animal permanently brain-damaged (which is a good thing when you want it to die fast!) or is it only a little knocked out and immobile, with the potential for recovery if you were to not bleed it out? (Which is bad in that circumstance!) A scientist can test that by testing a stunning method on a group of animals and then seeing if they recover. Those individual animals are likely not happy if they do return to consciousness with a hole in their heads, but such is science.

Anyway, while the testing might sound gruesome, I thought you'd like to know that slaughter regulations are pretty serious and well-studied. And those regulations seem pretty consistent among everywhere I've seen (EU, Norway specifically, the US.) With some minor differences here and there.

Perhaps we will discover better ways to slaughter meat animals in regard to their welfare, or perhaps we will find one day that our preferred method wasn't as good as we thought! There might also be people doing things in very bad, unintentionally cruel ways because of silly, disproven myths (but, if someone is legally selling meat, any US slaughterhouse is required to have a USDA rep see every death.)

I don't want to imply that every animal death goes perfectly well, or that it's even acceptable, or that the meat industry is perfect or good! But I do want to share that there is scientific precedent for why people kill livestock the ways they do, and you can read the studies in the aforementioned document. There are tons.

PS. If you have any interesting insights on the science of humane slaughter, I'd love to see them! Or, even, just tell me how it's done in your country, the role of the government, etc.

#animal death #humane slaughter

[thefuturewithoutus]

can you imagine being one of the nurses in miskatonic medical while dr cain and dr west were on the loose. dr cain is just emotionally volatile and overly attached to one of the patients. dr west is like mostly normal but weird by association of being in a supposed gay thing with dr cain. they're having what you think are marital spats all the time at work around you and it's unprofessional but whatre you gonna do. imagine after dr cain gets sprayed in the face with the blood of the patient he was too close with and then dr west comes up to him and gives him 🥺 eyes (while he's covered in blood) and gently tells him to go home (the home they're living in together)(you know about this everyone does) and you just have to stand there and wait until it's over because you've got to help like a whole bay full of other people that day like

#the heart #re-animator #oh and it turns out when you come to work the next day the police are all over the place because the psych wing was just slaughtered by a #group of ​reanimated corpses. and they were all found at the west cain estate. when the crypt collapsed. and there was a bunch of horrifying #shit in their basement. and now dr cain and dr west are like fbis most wanted #and you're like well . not really surprised

[fandomnerd9602]

Shank x F1 driver!Reader where they race against each other

The muscle cars drift to a stop…

Y/N: I win

Shank: (giggles) no fair you took a short cut

Y/N: hasn’t stopped you before

Shank: alright I concede. You win.

Y/N: do I get my prize?

Shank rolls her eyes before pulling Y/N into a kiss…

#disney #disney imagine #disney incorrect quotes #disney fluff #wreck it ralph #ralph breaks the internet #shank #gal gadot #shank gal gadot #slaughter race #disney animation #disney movies #shank x reader #street racer au #racer #disney plus

[quotesfrommyreading]

Temple’s deepest feelings are for cattle; she feels a tenderness, a compassion for them that is akin to love. She spoke of this at length as we made our way to our next destination, a feedlot—how she sought gentleness, holding cattle in the chute, how she sought to transmit calmness to the animals, to bring them peace in the last moments of their lives. This, for her, is half physical, half sacred, this cradling of an animal in the last moments of its life; and it is something she endlessly tries to teach the people who operate the chutes in the slaughter plants. She told me a story of how one plant manager, while very defensive about being advised on this by her, was fascinated by her power to calm excited animals, and how, unknown to her, he had spied on her through a hole in the ceiling as she worked. This had occurred when she was consulting at a slaughterhouse in the South, and the entire scene, and its context, kept returning to her mind: she told me the story half a dozen times in the afternoon, each time at length, and in virtually the same words.

  —  An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks, 1993)

#oliver sacks #temple grandin #an anthropologist on mars #psychology #autism #animals #animal welfare #animal slaughter #meat industry #cows