Just in case anyone had any questions of why I'm vegan, here are some quotes from factory farm workers. They could be from the very factory farm you get your oh-so-delicious rotting carcasses from.
"I seen them take those stunners - they're about as long as a yard stick - and shove it up the hog's a**. They do it with cows too. And down their earsm their eyes, down their throat. They'll be squealing and they'll just shove it right down there."
"Hogs get stressed out pretty easy. If you prod them too much, they have heart attacks. If you get a god in a chute that's had the s**t prodded out of him and has a heart attack or refuses to move, you take a meat hook and hook it itno his bunghole [a**s]. You're dragging these hogs alive, and a lot of times the meat hook rips out the bunghole. I've seen hams - thighs - completely ripped open. I've also seen intestines come out. If the hog collapses near the front of the chute, you shove the meat hook into his cheek and drag him forward. Or in their mouth. The roof of their mouth. And they're still alive."
"Pigs on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them - beat them to death with a pipe."
"These hogs get up to the scalding tank, hit the water and start screaming and kicking. Sometimes they thrash so much they kick water out of the tank. Sooner or later, they drown. There's a rotating arm that pushes them under, no chance for them to get out. I'm not sure if they burn to death before they drown, but it takes them a couple minutes to stop thrashing."
"Sometimes I grab a hog by the ear and stick it right down through the eye. I'm not just taking its eye out, I'll go all the way to the hilt, right up through the brain, and wiggle the knife."
"Only you don't just kill it, you go in hard, push hard, blow the windpipe, making it drown in its own blood. Split its nose. A live hog would be running around the pit. It would just be looking up at me and I'd be sticking, and I would just take my knife and cut its eye out while it was just sitting there. And this hog would just scream."
"I could tell you horror stories about cattle getting their heads stuck under the gate guards, and the only way to get it out is to cut their heads off while they're still alive."
"He'll kick the hogs, fork 'em, use anything he can get his hands on. He's already broken three pitchforks so far this year, just jabbing them. He doesn't care if he hits its eyes, head, butt. he jabs them so hard he busts the wooden handles. And he clubs them over the back."
"I've seen animals shakled, hoisted, stuck, and skinned. Too many to count, too many to remember. It's just a process that's continually there. I've seen shackled beef looking around before they've been stuck. I've seen hogs on the bleeding conveyor beld get up after they've been stuck. I've seen hogs in the scalding tub trying to swim." [They're supposed to be dead by those times.]
"I seen guys take broomsticks and stick it up the cow's behind, screwing them with a broom."
"I've drugged cows till their bones start breaking, while they were still alive. Bringing them around the corner and they get stuck up in the dorrway, just pull them till their hide be ripped, till the blood just drip on the steel and concrete. Breaking their legs. And the bow be crying with its tongue stuck out. They pull him till his neck just pop."
"One time I took my knife - its just sharp enough - and I sliced off the end of the hog's nose, just like a piece of bologna. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it just sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt brine and ground it into his nose. Now that hog went really nutes, pushing its nose all over the place. I still hand a bunch of salt left in my hand - I was wearing a rubber glove - and I stuck the salt right up the hog's a**. The poor hog didn't know whether to s**t or go blind."
"No one knows who's responsible for correcting animal abuse at the plant. The USDA does zilch."
And that, my friends, is why I'm vegan.
Quotes from the book Skinny b***h by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
