Re: This is the animal suffering that goes into your Christmas dinner. Archived Message
Posted by dereklane on December 24, 2019, 2:53 pm, in reply to "This is the animal suffering that goes into your Christmas dinner. "
Not all turkeys are the same as with chickens. Wild turkeys can reach 30lb (favourable conditions), and adult males often around 14lb. The black turkey (European bred from stock brought from American 400 years back) is probably the most natural farmed breed, and average similar. They can run, jump, fly enough to roost in branches and other roosts, and have no problem holding themselves up, if they're not factory farmed. Very often a bolt gun to the head is used as a method of dispatch, considered the quickest and cleanest method. I've not seen any farms where piglets have their teeth and tails cut. Ears are tagged, through the similar parts of the ears as humans with traditional piercings, and the reason is that it was determined less painful and easier to keep track of than more traditional branding. Done right it should go through the section of ear with minimal nerve endings or veins. Some dairies keep Bulls inthe uk, many don't now (reasons cited are generally walkers- bulls need to be kept off land that has public footpaths which most farms do, because of complaints from same walkers who don't understand how to deal with big animals, and the fact that Holstein Bulls can sometimes be a bit grumpy. 'Rape racks' is an emotive term I've never heard of; generally for dairy heifers and cows the ai workers are happy to find the animal where she stands somewhere in doors to deliver the straw. It's a lot less invasive and hazardous to the animal that a big bull on its back too. I guess if you're thinking about it in terms of humans you might say they didn't give consent, but if you've seen a bull at work you'll know they're not the most enlightened beasts either.. There are always bullocks for sale at the auctions, from dairy stock, and the farms I've seen, no they don't kill them straight away. The cow has spent 9 months growing them, most small dairies want to see something back for that. Large scale dairies (like large scale agriculture, for example) operates on purely economic principles, which is why they are so environmentally and ethically corrupt. My point is, the practises that are really bad are not uniformly practised. Other issues with the article, but mainly that very emotive and easy to pick apart articles such as this do an injustice to the thing they're aiming for. Anyone from the country will see the problems, anyone else has already made up their minds. I'd like to see better fact checking!
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