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Do we, as humans, having an ability to
reason and communicate abstract
ideas verbally and in writing, and
to form ethical and moral judgments
using the accumulated knowledge
of the ages, have the right to take
the lives of other sentient organisms
particularly when we are not forced to
do so by hunger or dietary need, but
rather do so for the somewhat frivolous
reason that we like the taste of meat?
In essence, should we know better?
It takes about 25 minutes to turn a live steer
into a steak at the modern slaughter-
house where Ramon Moreno works....
The cattle were supposed to be dead
before they got to Moreno.
But too often they weren't.
"They blink. They make noises,"
he said softly. "The head moves,
the eyes are wide and looking around."
Still Noreno would cut. On bad days,
he says, dozens of animals reached
his station clearly alive and conscious.
Some would survive as far as the tail
cutter, the belly ripper, the hide puller.
"They die," said Moreno,"
"piece by piece."
"Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest"
Washington Post, 4/10/01
Peter Cheeke, PhD
Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 1999 textbook
reason and communicate abstract
ideas verbally and in writing, and
to form ethical and moral judgments
using the accumulated knowledge
of the ages, have the right to take
the lives of other sentient organisms
particularly when we are not forced to
do so by hunger or dietary need, but
rather do so for the somewhat frivolous
reason that we like the taste of meat?
In essence, should we know better?
It takes about 25 minutes to turn a live steer
into a steak at the modern slaughter-
house where Ramon Moreno works....
The cattle were supposed to be dead
before they got to Moreno.
But too often they weren't.
"They blink. They make noises,"
he said softly. "The head moves,
the eyes are wide and looking around."
Still Noreno would cut. On bad days,
he says, dozens of animals reached
his station clearly alive and conscious.
Some would survive as far as the tail
cutter, the belly ripper, the hide puller.
"They die," said Moreno,"
"piece by piece."
"Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest"
Washington Post, 4/10/01
Peter Cheeke, PhD
Contemporary Issues in Animal Agriculture, 1999 textbook