{"id":183094,"date":"2025-04-13T21:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/opinion-what-some-animals-endure-before-we-eat-them\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:46:57","slug":"opinion-what-some-animals-endure-before-we-eat-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=183094","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | What Some Animals Endure Before We Eat Them"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even uglier one may be the way they sometimes die.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf everyone had to work a day in a meatpacking plant, these slaughterhouses would not exist,\u201d Ian Packer, 36, an undercover investigator from Florida, told me. Packer should know: He worked for two months late last year at Manning Beef LLC, a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles, and he took hard-to-watch videos of animals who in some cases appear to be alive as they are cut up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked in the eyes of cows who could feel every slice of the knife as their ears were cut off and their faces were skinned, the workers holding the cows in place while they gasped for air and struggled to move away from the pain,\u201d said Packer, who investigated on behalf of a nonprofit called Animal Outlook<\/a>. \u201cWatching those animals be butchered alive will haunt me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The great majority of livestock and poultry, to be sure, are not butchered alive \u2014 and the owner of the Manning slaughterhouse denies that it ever happens at his site. Some of the videos are open to debate, as it can be hard to discern whether an animal is jerking from pain or from post-mortem reflexes. But to me at least, the video and testimony raise fundamental questions about industry claims of \u201chumane slaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n