Italian slaughterhouse photos
If you have any friends or family that still eat meat, you may want to share with them this award winning set of photos from inside an Italian slaughterhouse (WARNING: extremely graphic and disturbing photos). The first photo is shocking, a butcher shot from the neck down holding a decapitated cow’s head by the horns.
But the second photo is the one that really struck me. It’s a photo of three lambs looking in a doorway at three skinned sheep hanging from by their legs. It reminded me a lot of the Corridor of Death video that Gary Francione pointed to last year. The image of animals witnessing what will be their ultimate fate is a sobering one. Put yourself in their place and imagine the terror and despair. And now imagine that happening every second of every day, whether the animals come from a factory farm or whether they come from a “humane” meat operation.
Keep fighting the fight. For them.
Wow. It hurts, really physically hurts, to look at those. It makes me exceptionally happy to be raising my daughter in a veg household.
How sad. And animals are aware of the death around them. When I was living on my family’s farm we would butcher pigs. The pigs that were butchered last, the ones that witness the horror of seeing their brothers and sisters die, their “meat” was spotted from the hormones pumping through their bodies. It makes me very, very sad thinking back on it.
And I hope that I’m not overplaying my “I used to live on a farm,” but I’ve noticed it to be a useful tactic when coming across hostile omnivores.
Those pictures are awful, that one with the horrified pig particularly so. Horrible, shocking stuff.
It is so tough to think what some animals have to go through in their life. To actually have to sit there and watch their family and friends get slaughtered is horrible. I equate it to the Natzis.
I agree, Jon, even though it wasn’t the most gruesome, the photo of the pig looking at the camera was one of the most heart wrenching. He looks so scared and confused.
And the lambs looking at the skinned sheep is hauntingly allegorical. Isn’t there a saying about lambs led to slaughter?