CECIL
THE LION
We have all heard about the dentist, Walter
Palmer, who paid $50,000 to kill a gentle, beloved lion. How hunting can be
called a “sport” is beyond me. A sport
is basketball, baseball, football, agility, etc. Two equal teams compete
against each other. How can hunting be considered “sport”? I was thrilled
to learn Palmer had to close his practice up and is now the most hated man in
America. That’s karma.
Cecil’s tragic death has opened a lot of
people’s eyes to the animal cruelty out there.
Hopefully something positive will come out of all this.
I have been using Cecil’s death to promote
veganism, making numerous memes about dairy, eggs, meat, fur, vivisection, and
hunting. My plan was to show the animal
and post how many were killed each day.
I went to animal agriculture sites to get my information. I took their
yearly numbers and divided them down into daily numbers. What I found was disturbing. I have listed my
findings below. Keep in mind when you
read these numbers that my numbers are lower than what actually goes on. The numbers I used are from USA agriculture
sites, so they do not add in other countries.
Agriculture sites don’t count animals that were killed on their way to
slaughterhouses, which run into the millions every year.
13,200 pigs are killed every hour.
According to the industry, only 1% of pigs wind up being boiled alive. That means over 100 pigs are boiled alive
ever hour.
2000 male baby chicks are ground up in food
grinders alive or placed alive in trash bags every day, shortly after
birth. Male chicks do not lay eggs so
they are considered waste product. Male
chicks are also used as “packing peanuts” for shipping. If you think eating
eggs, doesn’t kill anything, think again.
960,000 chickens are killed every
hour. 180 million chickens are boiled
alive every year. Chickens and pigs are
the most abused animals in the world.
2,700 male calves are killed every day.
Male calves are taken away from their mother right after birth and sold for
veal. They are kept confined in small crates
unable to move very much at all. Male calves do not make milk. They only way
they make a dairy farmer money is as veal or calf leather. Farms are businesses and their only goal is
making money. If you think drinking milk doesn’t harm any animals, think again.
The only way cows can produce milk is to have a baby. What do you think happens
to all those babies?
4000 cows are killed for beef every hour.
At the rates slaughterhouses have to work, many cows wind up being skinned
alive.
31,000 turkeys are killed every hour. I have never understood the tradition of
stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt.
55.000 dairy cows are killed every week. After
being milked to death, they become your hamburger patties. A cow can live to be
20, but in the dairy industry it’s only 5-7 years.
28,000 animals are killed for fur every
day.
28,000 animals are killed in animal testing
every day.
3,000,000,000,000 fish are killed every
year. That’s 3 trillion—3 with twelve zeroes after it.
100,000 sharks are killed every year.
Number of people killed by sharks in a year is four.
As you can see, the number of animals
killed every day, every week, every year, is unbelievable. What has our society become?
None of these deaths or lives of these
animals was humane or gentle. They all lived horrible lives and suffered cruel
deaths. They were hit in the head with a hammer, shot, electrocuted, throats
cut, or stunned gunned. One note, I need to make about stun guns, is they are supposed
to do just that—stun, not kill. They basically
just put a shot in the animal’s brain which is supposed to stun the animal, but
doesn’t kill it.
After all this research, my conclusion is
that vegan is the only ethical, moral way to live.
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