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Animals as commodities
On July 11th, a truck transporting hogs overturned on a Georgia Highway
on its way to a slaughter house in Alabama. Eight-five hogs died. This kind
of news has nothing in particular except that the local newspaper, the
Atlanta Journal Constitution, published it with the following words:
“two-level tractor-trailer carrying 43,000 pounds of pork” referring to the
170 LIVE hogs, and “en route to an Alabama processing plant” referring to a
slaughter house where this hogs are going to be killed and dismembered,
maybe even while conscious.
The callousness of the factory farming industry is not only seen in their
treatment towards animals, but also in the language they use to make it seem
that this hogs are just pounds of pork and the place where this creatures of
God are going to suffer pain, fear and terror, is just a processing plant.
It’s time to call things by their names. Cruelty is cruelty no matter what
you call it. A slaughter house is where animals are killed and dismembered
to make them into food for humans and other animals. Farmed animals are
sentient beings, which we are called to respect and take care of as stewards
of God’s creation.
Read more at Animal Issues
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