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kalikshama -> RE: Cat (as in feline) torturer gets 5 yrs (1/17/2011 4:47:53 PM)
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I've read Michael Pollan's essays, "The Omnivore's Dilemma", seen "Food, Inc." attempted veganism, pay a premium for meat NOT raised like the below, and spread the word:
http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/profiles-in-courage-on-animal-welfare/
...It is routine practice to cram laying hens into cages so small that the birds are sometimes driven to cannibalize their cagemates. The solution to this “vice” — as the industry and the Department of Agriculture call such counterproductive behaviors in livestock (talk about blaming the victims!) — is to snip the beaks off the hens with hot knives, without anesthetic. Similarly, the U.S.D.A.’s recommended solution for the “vice” of tail-biting among hogs driven mad by close confinement is to snip off their tails — with a pliers, without anesthetic. To peer over the increasingly high walls of our industrial animal agriculture is not only to lose your appetite but to feel revulsion and shame.
Mutilating pigs and chickens while they are alive is as routine in modern American agriculture as bacon and eggs for breakfast. These operations are performed every day on thousands of factory farms that are owned by, or under contract to, Fortune 500 corporations that supply hundreds of thousands of restaurants and supermarkets...
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ORIGINAL: WestBaySlave
Sad.Yet, overall, that cat probably had a better life than most of the meat that ends up on our tables.
No, I'm neither offering excuses for this man's behavior nor advocating veganism, but when there's an uproar on these threads it rather pains me to see the disconnect people make between the treatment of the animals in our homes and the treatment of ones that end up as dinner.
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