(June 13, 2013 at 10:20 am)Rahul Wrote:So you are saying animals are not transported to centralized slaughterhouses? I was told it wasn't even legal to slaughter animals (except a capped # of chickens) on the farm, for everything else you need special facilities (i.e. transport).(June 13, 2013 at 10:12 am)littleendian Wrote: Animals are often transported for days without water or feed, when they arrive they're barely alive, often times can't stand up etc. and already stressed to the max from the trip. But as long as the animal arrives alive it can still be slaughtered, so nobody cares.
Where do you get this crap from? No, that doesn't happen in the US side of beef production. And, yes, I speak from first hand knowledge.
Here's an article (not PETA, and also not about the US) about animal transport.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.