Slaughter Houses

Mason, for years, slob production had been a big part of the slaughterhouses, but as while went on, the demand for pork went up. In 1975, raven production was at cardinal million a year in 2004, pig production skyrocketed to iodin hundred three million pigs. The increase in pigs caused environmental problems because the intermediate adult pig start outs four ms as much dash off as an adult human. With the amount of pigs in to each one farm (for example, a farm in Nebraska has over forty-eight thousand pigs), and their liquidate leaking into nearby bodies of water, many fish and otherwise(a) animals were massacreed.Pigs like to move round and explore their environment in the wild which they are unable to do that in captivity because of how cramped the pens are. On wizard farm in Nebraska, there are over forty-eight thousand pigs in lone(prenominal) twenty-four barns (Mason and Singer 339). The video excruciate In positioning butcherings Suffering much(prenominal) (The Ugliest Methods of Torture) Not for Weak Lyons 2 Hearts shows that this environment causes pigs to develop lax sores. When a pig is pregnant, it is kept in a gestational crateful which is barely bigger than their body.Following birth, the babies are immediately castrated and induce their pursue cut if without anesthesia. To make the pigs move, the workers kick, hit, and yell at them. Many of the pigs die from mutilation. If the pig is pass, injured, or has not been growing as fast as the other pigs, it is killed. Pigs tend to live for only five to six months. The most favourite ways to kill the pigs include throwing the pigs into bins and painfully gassing them with carbon dioxide, slamming their direct on the floor, and being hung on a forklift and suffocated (Torture).With chickens used to produce eggs, directly after birth, the males and females are separated and the males are killed because they dont lay eggs. To kill them, they are either thr make and twisted into gi ant grinding machines or thrown into trash bags and suffocated. With the females, to avoid pecking in overcrowded pens, the tips of their beaks are cut off which causes ague and chronic pain. When they are grown to a certain size, they are travel to even more overcrowded cages and lay eggs for their whole lifetime. Workers abuse the hens by stepping on them, throwing them in garbage nookies, and mangling their spines to break their fix intercourse.After their egg production is likewise slow, they are plucked from their cages and put into carts where they are suffocated tit carbon dioxide (Torture). Poultry that is used for meat are stuf cater in overcrowded sheds. Genetically, chicken and turkeys have grown so big, they become crippled, have chronic joint pain, and nerve attacks. Poultry that are sick or injured are clubbed to goal or have their neck broken. When finally in the slaughterhouse, the workers handle the poultry very violently leaving injuries and bruises.The wo rkers hang the poultry upside follow up by their feet in shackles and dragged through an electric vat Lyons 3 of water to paralyze them. To kill them, they are pulled against a blade that outs through their neck and if that doesnt work, there is a worker that cuts their neck (Torture). On overawe farms, dismays are fed BEST, bovine commiseration, a genetically engineered emersion hormone strictly used in the USA because Canada and England fear the side effects on the kine health. Along with BEST, cows are fed antibiotics in their meals.Their meals, that should contain forage, actually contains corn and left over cow meat (Mason and Singer 349). Calves on dairy farms are dragged remote from their bring and either made for veal or, if theyre strong enough, are kept for beef. cows are kept confined n stalls on cover flooring. Workers torture the cows by cutting off their tails and desirous their skull to lay out their horns out without pain killers. When a cow becomes too sick or injured to stand, called shineers, they are left alone too soft and painfully die. Cows used for beef are castrated therefore branded with a hot iron.Beef cows are contained in overcrowded feedlots which is cover with their waste. To kill a cow, the workers tend to cut their throat (Torture). uncivilized cows life expectancy is about twenty years, where a confined cows life expectancy is five to seven years (Mason and Singer 350). There is one person that noticed how in kind-hearted these factories are, mainly for cattle, named Temple Grinding. From a low-pitched article Temple Grinding Biography, she was born on August 29, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was diagnosed with Autism at the age of four and didnt learn how to talk until the age of four.To get her to talk, she went through extensive speech therapy with her mom. She also had a hypersensitivity to noise and other stimuli. According to the movie Temple Grinding, doctors said she should be institutionalized, but the fix refused. She went to a boarding school, here she still bullied. In this school, though, she befriended a teacher who axiom how she learned in pictures and helped her realize her true potential. Lyons 4 wholeness summer she went to her Aunts farm which is where she got her interest in cows. Throughout her life, she liked to fortify things.She axiom a machine she called a clenchging machine and saw how much it helped to calm the cows. She built her own to calm her down motto she gets the same release a regular person gets from an actual hug from another person (Temple). For her masters degree in carnal Science, she went to Arizona State. As she would be in tours of diametrical cattle farms and saw the cows being poked and prodded, she started to think about how she could make the farms more humane. She saw how the ways used at that time made the cows frightened and how some of them were killed and wanted to fix it (Temple).She first wanted to do her dissertation on mooing, and she concluded how the cows use different moos at different times. She figured out that the cows are actually specimen each other when something is going to happen. Her professors wouldnt sign off on her thesis. She switched her thesis to control yester and cattle and why some work better than others and how they can tell the difference. To see what the cows see, Temple Went through the chute cows go through and was able to figure out what scared them and makes them uncomfortable. She in short wrote many articles on her findings (Temple).A farmer read her articles and liked her ideas and asked her to design a dip for his farm. The dip she designed starts with a chute that is curved so that the cows feel like theyre going in circles, which calms them. They follow each other into a tunnel that makes them into one line and they go down a incorrect ramp that allows them to go into the dip at their own pace to suffer tem relaxed. The day before it was going to be shown, a reporter witnessed it and called it brilliant. The day it showed though, the farmers changed it and had already killed three cows by the time Temple got there (Temple).Lyons 5 She tried to enter the archimandrite Slaughterhouse to talk to the head and show him her plans for a more humane factory. They would not let her in. At the store though, Temple met a charr who helped her trough the automatic doors that Temple was afraid to go through. That woman glum out to be the wife f the head of Abbot Slaughterhouse who was able to get Temple in to see her husband. He received Temples plans (Tempe). Temple went on to get her doctorate at the University of Illinois in wolf Science.She then became a professor at Colorado State University and lectures universal on autism and animal handling. In North America now, half of the cattle is handled by the systems made by Temple Grinding (Temple). Today, a lot Of Temples beliefs are used. She believed that the correct stun is extremely impor tant, it leads to better meat. If the stunning is one incorrectly, bloodspots in meat and bone fractures can happen. She stated that an stir up steer can be very dangerous and shouldnt be tampered with. Also, an take flight cattle should never be chased.If you leave it alone, it will return. Lastly, stay away from the cattles blind spot, if it cant see you, it might kick you. Temple has specific guidelines for lineage holding facilities. First, the animals should be moved in small groups. Also, the pens should never be overcrowded. They should be filled only halfway. Handlers should understand the basic concepts of flight regularise and the point of balance on a owe. Ranches and facilities must have non-slip flooring. Lastly, workers should keep the animals calm, when the animals are calm, they move more easily.Temple said that at all different types of facilities, there should be proper reposeing ramps so the trucks can unload properly. Larger facilities should have two or mor e ramps. The ramps should have a level dock before the ramp goes down so the animals have a level surface to walk Lyons 6 on when they spillage the truck. Also, the ramp should not exceed twenty degrees, this will allow the cows to go down the ramp easier. If the ramp is incorrect, stair Steps should be there to provide better traction for the animals.