Last night I got told off for speaking about the barbaric
animal torture going on at Hartshead Meat abattoir in Mossley. It was a private
conversation overheard by a couple sitting nearby. The husband came over and chastised
me because his wife was upset by what I had described. He asked me not to speak
of it again. Of course, I apologised to his wife for upsetting her – I would
never have done that on purpose. But I didn’t know she was listening, it was a
private conversation, and I was only speaking the truth.
Sadly, there are too many people who are only thinking of
themselves and want to silence those who try to educate and inform others about
things that they choose to deny. It left me feeling upset and yes, also angry. Those
who shut out the world and live in their own little rose-coloured bubble are
complicit in the terrible things that our politicians and law makers are
allowing to happen right under our noses.
I cannot keep quiet about the barbaric practices going on in
my locality and why should I? We are talking about animal cruelty but this also
involves religious exemptions from UK law – laws that non-religious folk have
to abide by. In the case of animal slaughter – religious exemption means the
animals are not stunned before being killed (kosher) and only partially stunned
for halal. The animals are conscious and terrified. Hartshead Meat were denying
they did kosher and halal slaughter yet undercover investigator, Joey Carbstrong,
got evidence that they do. More importantly, their practices went way beyond
anything Jews or Muslims would condone. Joey was arrested by the way for
breaking in to the abattoir and taking video footage of the torture. His video
was taken down but is now available on YouTube for those who have the stomach
to watch it.
And take note; the beef and lamb from animals mass-slaughtered
in this barbaric way, fill the shelves of all the supermarkets and is being fed
to school children. Surely, every sane-thinking person would agree that religiously
slaughtered meat should be labelled as such. At least then people will have a
choice whether to eat it or not. Currently, all meat eaters are eating it and
they don’t even know. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to eat an animal
that has died screaming in terror.
So, to all those people who now know what’s going on and yet
are turning a blind eye, why not read some of the dystopian literature – find out
what you and your children will end up with if you don’t stop complying with,
and condoning, practices like those mentioned here. This is nothing but the tip
of a very deep environmental and biological iceberg.
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