Speech

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Animal Cruelty

Good morning (afternoon) my name is Micaiah and I will be presenting a speech about where the meat on our plates come from.

Have you ever purchased meat from a grocery store. And then came back the following week and purchased more. And if u think about it a majority of New Zealanders eat meat so they would have to produce a lot of it to feed most of New Zealand. right?. have you ever wondered where the meat came from. Well i'm here to tell you little bit about it.

Think of a normal cow. They are much like us they have eyes to see, ears to hear, nose to smell, mouth to eat and a beating heart but they are treated much differently then to us humans. Cows who survive feedlots and dairy sheds are sent to the slaughterhouse. They are crammed onto trucks where they typically go without food, water, or rest for the journey, which can sometimes be days.

By the time they reach the slaughterhouse most would be too sick or injured to walk so they are shocked with electric prods or pulled off by chains. They are forced into a chute and get shot in the head with a captive-bolt gun meant to stun them. The cows then are hung by their legs and their throats cut open when they are completely conscious. It has been said that many of them were still alive after their throats have been cut even so they do not care weather it is dead or alive they will still proceed to skinning and chopping them into the product that ends up on our dinner plates.

Chickens go through a much similar process. The industry refers to these chickens as “broilers” and raises them in huge, ammonia-filled, windowless sheds where artificial lighting is manipulated to make birds eat as often as possible. To keep up with demand and reduce production costs, genetic selection and a steady dose of growth-promoting drugs are used to ensure large, fast-growing chickens. And i bet none of you knew that the

chicken you eat has a some type of chemical in it. When they are ready to be taken to the slaughter house Workers rush through the sheds, grabbing multiple birds by their legs and slinging them into crates for transport.

Every year, tens of millions chicken suffer broken wings and legs from the rough handling, and some hemorrhage to death. After this nightmarish journey, the chickens are dumped out of the crates, and workers violently grab

them and force their legs into shackles so that they are hanging upside-down, breaking many birds’ legs in the process. Then they are drugged through an electrified water bath meant to paralyze them, but not to make them fully unconscious. Because of these birds flapping around they would sometimes miss the blade do then they would be cut by a second cutter but then they still might not be dead but either way they would be dunked into the scalding-hot water of the defeathering tanks.

This type of killing is called humane killing which means   an animal must be either killed instantly or unaware of pain until death supervenes. When killing animals for food, this

means they must be stunned prior to bleeding out so they immediately become unconscious. But it's like saying i humane murdered someone or i humane abused someone.These are just two examples of the horrifying struggles of most farm animals. Just because people can't see their emotions and their feeling doesn't mean they do have any. Just imagine you were the animal it isn't any different because animal or human we are all alive and should be treated the same. And even though it's legal to kill animals just for people's satisfaction of a fatty meal doesn't make it alright.

this is my speech on Animal Cruelty I write this because when I ate meet I never truly knew where my meet came from so I found it very interesting to find out about this but I also find it yucky because of how cows get killed and skinned alive most of the time that is truly horrifying