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A Slaughterhouse With Glass Walls: Satirical Essay

A taste of your own medicine.

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A Slaughterhouse With Glass Walls: Satirical Essay
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How do humans live with themselves knowing they consume pounds of tortured animal flesh daily? According to easyvegetarian.net's The Awful Truth, animals are constantly forced to reproduce so that the food supplies in the United States can be kept consistent. Once the animals are barely able to survive without the help from the mother animal, the baby is shoved into a cage—smaller than the average canine kennel, with dozens of other like animals and forced to eat large amounts of garbage, bile, and disease ridden, spoiled meat. The animals are so overfed that often their "food" is rejected and thrown up because the bodies cannot digest food at the rate the slaughterhouse employees expect them to.

Once this unfortunate event happens, the animals are expected to eat what has been thrown up, and if they refuse, the animals are not fed until all of the thrown up material is swallowed again. After hearing this, many individuals are not horrified with the occurrences at slaughterhouses. If one is to think about it, the average American lives exactly as the animals that die for their flesh do; constantly living in areas that are too small for them while sitting in their own feces and stuffing their faces with substances that the FDA can barely pass for food.

How many animals does the United States actually devour? If all 318.9 million individuals in the United States, legal and illegal, eat an average of 0.36 pounds of flesh a day for 365 days (one year), that would equal (according to my calculations) out to 114,804,000 pounds of meat. Exactly how many animals does that total?

According to The North American Meat Institute, the most frequently consumed animal in America is the chicken. On average, a chicken weighs less than five pounds, but since the chickens are over-fed and considered "meat" chickens, it is safe to assume that the chickens in the slaughterhouses weigh about 7.03 pounds, according to Homestead Organics. Over eight billion chickens are tortured and brutally killed each year, just so Americans can stuff their overweight faces.

My solution to this diabolical business is to torture any individual associated with the production and consumption of animals. Many animals, especially dogs, have been considered "man's best friend," they live and breathe just as a human being does. In fact, a large portion of owners would rather save their "best friend," over a human that was in danger.

If this is the case, then why not let all the animals confined to the dark and damp slaughterhouses free of the brutal torture and replace them with a human. I would like to think a well-fitting slogan to this resolution would be "A taste of your own medicine."

The animals that were previously held captive in all the slaughterhouses around the U.S. will be examined and released to live out the rest of their lives in peace and harmony. The animals will be transferred to a rescue shelter until they fully recover from the tortured they have suffered. If the animals have severe damage to their physical health, it will be made sure that the animal is immediately transferred to a veterinarian clinic for extensive care. Once the animals learn that all human beings are not brutal killers, zoos can be opened up so that America can appreciate the beauty of all living beings.

Opening up rescue shelters, zoos, and clinics will provide the economy with millions of jobs and opportunities to educate children and adults. At first, the number of freed animals will be excessively high, but after a few years, some of the animals will live out their life to their full potential and pass away of completely natural causes.

Unlike the animals in slaughterhouses, all mammals only reproduce at certain times of the year and until their bodies will let them, so eventually the animal population will slowly decrease to a comfortable amount.

After the animals are released from the slaughterhouses, human beings will be stripped of clothing, tied, bagged up, and taken to a slaughterhouse; the purpose of this procedure is to prevent anyone from escaping and to instill fear and helplessness. Once at the slaughterhouse, the human will be shoved into a metal barred cage with dozens of other humans. In these cages, the humans will be forced to stand shoulder to shoulder without room for relaxation of stance or any kind of movement.

To make room for more humans in each cage, any physical feature that is not flat to the skin (ears, nose, genital) will be cut off and cauterized, without any use of anesthesia. During feeding time, each cage will be thrown a bucket of unknown substances, including sewage and bile. The humans will be supervised while eating to ensure each one gets the proper amount to sustain a heavyset weight; the rejected and/or thrown up food will be tunnel fed.

At one point during the human's stay at the slaughterhouse, they will be examined and branded with an identification number. If one of the humans try to rebel, employees are given permission to keep them in check under any means possible, this may include being thrown onto any hard surface and tasering. The humans will be fed until their fat starts to bulge over the bars of the cages. Once a human as reached a set weight, it is time for them to be stripped of their flesh.

Under the Humane Slaughter Act, federal law requires mammals be stunned prior to slaughter. Typically, electric current is used to induce a heart attack and/or seizure; or a captive bolt gun is used to deliver a blow to the skull or shoot a rod into the mammal’s brain, since a human being is a mammal, this law will be initiated.

The humans will then be chained upside down and dunked in a container of scalding hot water to soften the flesh. Employees of the slaughterhouses often suffer from behavioral disorders that cause them to lash out in aggressive violence, so depending on the employees mood that particular day, the human will be killed and used for food in various methods. These methods may include skinning them alive, slashing of the throat, or repeated bashing with a blunt object. If an employee is not satisfied with the condition of the human before the slaughtering process, the human will be cut out of the chains and left to die amongst the other caged humans.

Only a few humans can be exterminated at a time, so the other human beings will be forced to witness the procedures along with their soon to be fate. After the humans die, edible products such as meat patties can be made from their flesh. This may seem like an extremely satanic torture, but in reality, this is how animals are treated daily when they are doomed to a slaughterhouse.

Besides, cannibals have existed all around the world for centuries and they do not complain about the taste of humans.

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