poor things...
well before i read this, i had wanted to be a vegetarian, but this just makes me want to be one sooner...but I know I'm not going to wait longer then after high school, cuz when I go to college then I can eat what I want, not what my mom cooks...and not be a burden to have to make her cook seperate stuff for me...well i already don't eat pork cuz it's yucky and I hate pigs..other then the ham I had in a sub at lunch today..
we had to read this for english, along with Fast Food Nation, but I haven't gotten to the part that makes you want to give up fast food....yet..
"Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few feet from the floor; into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goads which gave them electric shocks. Once crowded in here, the creatures were prisoned, each in a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around; and while they stood bellowing and plunging, over the top of the pen there leaned one of the "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow. The room echoed with the thuds in quick succession, and the stamping and kicking of the steers. The instant the animal had fallen, the "knocker" passed on to another; while a second man raised a lever, and the side of the pen was raised, and the animal, still kicking and struggling, slid out to the "killing bed." Here a man put shackles about one leg, and pressed another lever, and the body was jerked up into the air. There were fifteen or twenty such pens, and it was a matter of only a couple of minutes to knock fifteen or twenty cattle and roll them out... The party descended to the next floor, where the various waste materials were treated. Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench"
-Excerpt from the Jungle
and they use the cow guts to make violin strings, well I guess I can't play anymore...lol..that could be a good thing..stupid ms. *****
poor animales...
no more sausages or hot dogs
i told my friend juli, and she said, "if we don't eat them, they'll overpopulate the world and take over."
we had to read this for english, along with Fast Food Nation, but I haven't gotten to the part that makes you want to give up fast food....yet..
"Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few feet from the floor; into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goads which gave them electric shocks. Once crowded in here, the creatures were prisoned, each in a separate pen, by gates that shut, leaving them no room to turn around; and while they stood bellowing and plunging, over the top of the pen there leaned one of the "knockers," armed with a sledge hammer, and watching for a chance to deal a blow. The room echoed with the thuds in quick succession, and the stamping and kicking of the steers. The instant the animal had fallen, the "knocker" passed on to another; while a second man raised a lever, and the side of the pen was raised, and the animal, still kicking and struggling, slid out to the "killing bed." Here a man put shackles about one leg, and pressed another lever, and the body was jerked up into the air. There were fifteen or twenty such pens, and it was a matter of only a couple of minutes to knock fifteen or twenty cattle and roll them out... The party descended to the next floor, where the various waste materials were treated. Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench"
-Excerpt from the Jungle
and they use the cow guts to make violin strings, well I guess I can't play anymore...lol..that could be a good thing..stupid ms. *****
poor animales...
no more sausages or hot dogs
i told my friend juli, and she said, "if we don't eat them, they'll overpopulate the world and take over."