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  • they feed humans, hence humane
  • Good question. First, let's set the record straight here so you know where I am coming from: I am NOT a vegetarian. I eat meat, I enjoy it, I believe it's a healthy part of a balanced diet. I do not believe in cruelty to animals, especially those we raise as pets, hunt, or consume as food. At this point, those reading this who do NOT agree with me feel free to DR me if this offends you. I would appreciate a little comment along with it, though. If you don't feel like DR'ing me, then please continue. I do NOT believe I have a right to dictate my personal beliefs on use of animals for food or clothing on those who choose NOT to consume or otherwise utilize animals or animal products. That being said, here is my stand on slaughter houses, and raising animals for food as well: Raising animals for food: As a rule, farmers do NOT mistreat their livestock. Mistreatment of livestock causes stress, stress adversly affects weight and quality of the livestock which affects the bottom line of generating an income and putting food on the table for the farmer. So, farmers do NOT mistreat their livestock. There are always exceptions, but they are just that: exceptions. Slaughtering livestock: As a rule, people in the animal slaughter business do NOT mistreat their livestock either. Mistreatment of animals to be slaughtered is a waste of valuable time and interferes with the effecient operation of slaughtering. Plus, mistreated animals cause problems with animal behavior, which greatly affects processing them for slaughter by slowing down the process. Animals are quickly and cleanly killed, as any other way also interferes with effecient operation. All this affects the bottom line: generating an income and putting food on the table. So, again, people who slaughter animals DON'T mistreat them. And again, there are the exceptions to the rule and they, too, are just that: exceptions. When slaughtering an animal, the death should be quick and clean with no suffering. For an animal killed for food, this is as 'humane' as it gets. Certainly FAR more 'humane' than running it down, ripping its throat out, and tearing into the choice parts to eat it while it may still be alive. “Humane” is a purely human concept, which has NO direct analog in the animal kingdom. They have no basis, nor capacity, for comprehending the meaning behind it. The term applies ONLY to humans and human behavior. To the cow at the slaughter house, there is no concept of “How inhumane it is to be killed by a human for food!” any more than there is no concept of “How inhumane it is to be killed by a lion for food!” OK, send me your comments!
  • If you and I were in a room together and I chose not to kick you in the nuts, would you say that is humane? Well, they don't kick the animals in the nuts first so that's pretty humane.
  • After reading the responses, I am utterly confused. On one hand we have these horrible pics, and on the other we have a clean kill that is the rule, not the exception. I am not a vegan. But I don't see how a slaughterhouse CAN be humane. Knockers often don't complete thier missions, yet the death procession must keep moving to maintain production. Is this okay? I don't think so. And about veal: just don't eat it. It's the cruelest thing I have ever heard of. Don't support it!
  • The only inhumane aspect of the slaughterhouse is how QUICKLY the animal dies. If the animal dies instantly, then it is humane. If it dies slowly, then it is less than humane. All things after the death of the animal can't be judged humane or not.
  • Good management.
  • Many people mistake "gross" for "inhumane". Thus, the more blood they see the more cruel they imagine it to be. Slaughterhouses usually use methods that are fast and as painless as possible, without paying much attention to how it looks because most people don't visit slaughterhouses anyway.
  • OH MY GOD!!! I think eveyone shoulod see what it posted here. those poor animals!!!
  • It is not human why do you think they call it a slaughterhouse. Those poor animals have a pupose they are raised to be eaten now as far as the killing it should be done as humane as posible. I spent time on afarm where we dispatched pigs . My father alwsy made an effort to keep the animal as calm as possible and do it in as quickly as possible. Too many people have the idea that meat just appears on the grocery store shelf without thought to how it got there. Mr Bill
  • They are. Doing inhumane things are things that pertain to harming "humans". Livestock are not people, so technically they ARE humane.
  • Kill slaughter house employees! Burn the buildings to the ground with them inside. Shoot ranchers! Eat grain!
  • Why are these videos not in the main stream news? My God, people need to see this! I can't believe this happens!!
  • They can be less brutal, but they can never be humane. Don't send them money if you disagree with what they do.
  • If you can't shoot it and cut it up, you are a hypocrite to eat it. Meat is something we think grows on supermarket shelves, it's not really an animal... it's a sausage, a steak, it's mince, it's ham, it's salami and pepperoni neatly packed in plastic.
  • And your recommended alternative???
  • "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we'd all be vegetarians" - Sir Paul McCartney
  • volcanoes do respond to stimuli, they do not have brains, thus they can't feel pain. If they were structurally composed of a different type of cell would you then believe that they are capable of feeling pain despite not having a brain? Do you also believe that plants can see and hear in spite of lacking the organs to see and hear?
  • They're not. The term humane is used in the same way that clean is in 'clean coal.' It's a lie to cover up the exact opposite of what happens.
  • FEW of us like to contemplate the reality of animal slaughter. Viva! completed an investigation that reveals heavily pregnant animals are routinely sent to slaughterhouses. They are given no special treatment - the killing process is exactly the same. Each is goaded into the abattoir, stunned and hoisted up by one leg before having her throat cut. If the stun fails to work - which occurs frequently - she will bleed to death while conscious. Her unborn babies are cut from the womb and literally thrown away - even when fully formed and capable of independent life. Heartbreaking photographs show them lying dead on metal conveyor belts alongside their mother's intestines. I can hardly bear to think about the plight of these creatures, who can still be seen kicking as their mothers bleed to death. Read also: "They Die Piece by Piece" http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/slaughterhouse-washington click to enlarge
  • They will never be, and they can't be. At best, they could become less cruel.
  • It is pretty obvious they aren't!
  • You electric prod those defenseless children into that horrible house to give them a bath? You force them in to kill them ! How could the intention be humane in the first place?
  • They’re not meant to be, they’re slaughterhouses.
  • there not. but i'll still continue to eat meat and flesh mink
  • Humane: pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement. I'd say a slaughterhouse that has evening classes and book clubs would meet that definition.
  • Humane is an awful word, the last thing humans are is humane.The word should be Kindane or Loveane. But anyway slaughterhouses have to maintain certain standards(in the western world), to minimize the animals suffering. Sadly there is no totally kind & compassionate way to kill animals for food.

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