Animals suffer in quest for cheap food
Times Colonist
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Trapping, hakapicking, harpooning, cross-bows, vivisection, electrocution, bone crushing, factory farming and abattoirs -- when it comes to animal suffering, the torture devices are infinite.
Bear galls, shark fin soup, cat and dog fur trim on trinkets.
The list goes on and on.
Too many people are inured to the morally reprehensible exploitation and cruelty so many animals endure every day.
They exercise their right to support practices that are, unfortunately, mostly legal.
There does exist a disturbing lack of ethics when it comes to acquiring the cheap food and goods to which we have become accustomed and feel is our right and our choice.
Killing lambs, cows, pigs and chickens in abbatoirs is quick and humane? We'd like to believe this is the case.
I would suggest visiting a factory farm and an abbatoir before you make this statement.
These animals are a commodity and suffer a horrible unnatural existence from the moment of birth to the moment they are led in fear and anxiety to the slaughterhouse where death may not be as swift and humane as you would like to think.
We do have better choices and we should, as human beings, feel morally obligated to make them.
And we should lobby against all animal exploitation and cruelty.
Lynda Robson
Victoria
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