Lets Kill them with compassion

international | animal rights | opinion/analysis Wednesday August 22, 2007 10:03 by Bernie Wright - Alliance for Animal Rights

Gentle slaughterhouses...right!

I have just heard that the American Humane Association has awarded a "Humane award" to a 900-cow factory farm because they slaughter cows with compassion.

Despite the fact that each birthed calf is separated from her mother, they rationalize by calling themselves humane. Despite the fact that each and every one of their cows ends up hanging upside down with her throat cut in a slaughterhouse, they now call themselves humane. Some people might argue that there is such a thing as humane slaughter.I disagree completely.

During the second world war, the Treblinka concentration camp employed the use of a string quartet which played Mozart as long lines of condemned Jews walked single file to the showers where they were gassed to death.
Was this really a humane act by the Nazi Third Reich?
Fans of der Fuhrer would argue that Hitler practiced compassion in his mass exterminations. His slaughterhouses were based upon Henry-Ford-style assembly-line operations. Hitler's version of compassion was simply efficient killing.
Concentration camp employees were ex-slaughterhouse workers. Slaughter house workers and Farmers in Ireland would also argue that their profession is 'humane' and abides by welfare regulations.
Compassionate -Right! happy, tortured animals....I do not think so.

Bernie Wright.
Alliance for Animal Rights.
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