Farmers and Neglect
The news article below is another example of farmers neglecting animals and contradicting the idea of them as benign benefactors of the animals in their care. The harsh reality is that the animals are precisely what they are labelled - livestock - there for the sole purpose of making a farmer money.
The people of the developed world who have lost contact with the connection between living, breathing individuals, and the ingredients of a pasty really should see all aspects of what goes into their dinners.
Take a minute to look round meatismurder, mostly what can be learned is that what goes into a meat dinner is abuse, fear, horror, and pain.
These photographs show the shocking scenes of animal neglect that greeted Department of Agriculture inspectors at a Co Tyrone farm.
Officials were appalled to find decaying carcasses and emaciated livestock on the Caledon farm when they were tipped off in February 2005. Dead cattle and sheep were left decaying where they lay - conditions which prompted the USPCA to call for courts to reflect the public’s revulsion at every case of animal cruelty. Last month, father and son farmers Joseph and David Reid were fined at Dungannon Magistrates Court after being found guilty on nearly 50 breaches of animal welfare and farming laws. The pair face further penalties next year for other breaches found during follow-up inspections of their farm at Tannaghlane Road, Caledon.
