Most beef cattle are fixed and de-horned; this painful process is performed without any anesthesia. For seven months the cows stare at the farm before they are transported to a barnyard, where they are fattened on non-healthy diets. Six months later, they reach the weight of 1,200 pounds and are put in trucks to be sent to the slaughterhouse to be killed for food. Cows are not given any food or water, or protection from the elements during this long trip. In the slaughter house the cows are put in a cage to be de-horned and fixed. Then they are hooked on a convey belt upside down and sent to the other people who slice their throats. While the cows are still conscience the workers stab there neck to take out the blood from the cow’s body. Then they sent to be peeled and chopped up. If the animal is not treated right it can get hurt or get an open cut and catch a disease or infection and eventually it will spread around the cow’s body. I think the government should put the cattle to sleep and then do the whole process. They should also do one cow at a time because doing 10 or 20 at a time is nasty. They should also clean the materials they use during the process; clean the knife, the chain that they hook them on, the blood on the floor, and the trucks they are put on to be sent to the slaughter house. Some of the cows probably have an illness and can leave it on the truck and that illness can spread to the rest of them. The workers should also change their suit every time or wash it with a water hose because the animal is still conscience and moving for the last time ant they set splattered by the blood. That blood gets on them and they just go to the next cow and spread the germs.
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That is a very brutal way to slaughter a cow, it is like they are committing a crime of passion. The fact that they do not change uniforms or clean the blood after a slaughter is disgusting. But how is slaughtering more than one at once nasty? Doing it one by one is very time consuming. On http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/ai410e/AI410E05.htm they say the reason for not practicing good hygiene in slaughter houses are because the workers are put on a strict time limit and do not have enough time to practice correct procedures. Also because they are doing so many cows at once there is no way to avoid cross contamination. A solution to this issue can to give more time for careful slaughtering and not to do so many cows at once but not one at a time.
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DeleteI think that the reason why they don't put them to sleep first and try to slaughter each cow one by one is because of money issues. If they put the them to sleep that would take time and, as we all know that saying. Time is money. Time will be wasted on putting them to sleep and wasting money on products to put them to sleep. Also money will be spend on more people working hours to check the cows condition.
ReplyDeleteEvidence: http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lm_ct150.txt