We are scandalized when we meet the gaze of lambs and kids torn from their mothers and torn to pieces in slaughterhouses thinking those are just “puppies”. This is true, we know, but what we sometimes ignore is that those animals are not the only puppies raised and slaughtered at very young ages.
Most animals in the livestock sector he dies after a few months of lifejust like lambs and kids, because it is intended for food production.
Just over 4 weeks for meat chickens, from 1 week up to 24 for calves, 7-8 for ducks and 10-12 for rabbits, 6 months for meat pigs, 4 for turkeys and so on away. A lifespan imposed by the food industry and which has nothing natural about it.
They are brutally killed to be served on laden tables, particularly during festive periods when the demand for meat increases. They will accompany the main dishes of the Easter and Christmas tradition, a tradition however made of the blood and pain of others.
We tend to forget or not want to know what lies behind cured meats, steaks and other cuts of meat. Animal rights organizations, on the other hand, are committed to showing the reality of things, spreading the horrors of animal breeding and slaughter.
Every image, every expression of animal suffering is a crude reflection to stir the consciences of consumers. It’s almost time for Christmas and right in view of the holidays the animals that will end up on your menu have already been born and will die soon.
They will be transported far and wide throughout Italy to be slaughtered in slaughterhouses, they will face exhausting journeys from one country to another without even having the strength to stand on their legs. Those will be their last trips.
When speaking about farms and their practices, some activists have used the expression “animal sickness”. We have the right to choose not to be part of this cruel system of animal disease, a choice of awareness to change our point of view and diet. For the Planet and for animals, at Christmas like all year round, because that’s not what we are eating, but on whom.
