meat is murder

People won’t like this photo that’s in the news at the moment…

Photo taken October 13, 2006. REUTERS/Stringer (PHILIPPINES)
Some 80 dogs, that were muzzled and found in a vehicle which was intercepted by enforcement officers, are seen crammed in a crate in Baguio City, north of Manila
October 13, 2006. Authorities said the dogs were to be delivered to a restaurant in Benguet, north of Manila.
But are happy to pay for this…

Packed into crates on trucks that typically carry around 6,000 birds, the journey to the slaughterhouse can be horrific.
Each year in the EU alone, up to 33 million chickens may die en-route to slaughter.
The dead-on-arrival figures are only the tip of the iceberg. Many of those that survive suffer terribly from extremes of temperature (bitter cold in winter, suffocating heat in summer), broken bones and bruises.
During the journey the birds experience sudden jolting movements, vibration, loud noises, deprivation of water and food and overcrowding. All these can lead to distress and extreme fear.
and this…

Cattle who survive feedlots, dairy sheds, and veal farms face a hellish trip to the slaughterhouse. The animals are packed onto trucks where they go without food for duration of the journey, which sometimes takes days. In hot weather, many cows collapse in the heat, and in the cold, cows sometimes freeze to the sides of the truck until workers pry them off with crowbars.
Cows who are too sick or injured to walk, known as “downers,” may have ropes or chains tied around their legs so that they can be dragged onto and off of the trucks. According to former Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, roughly 400,000 “dead and dying” cattle are forced onto trucks bound for slaughter each year.
Former USDA veterinary inspector Dr. Lester Friedlander explains, “In the summertime, when it’s 90, 95 degrees, they’re transporting cattle from 1,200 to 1,500 miles away on a trailer, 40 to 45 head crammed in there, and some collapse from heat exhaustion. This past winter, we had minus-50 degree weather with the windchill. Can you imagine if you were in the back of a trailer that’s open, and the windchill factor is minus-50 degrees, and that trailer is going 50 to 60 miles an hour? The animals are urinating and defecating right in the trailers, and after a while, it’s going to freeze, and their hooves are right in it. If they go down—well, you can imagine lying in there for 10 hours on a trip.” more