In article >, Lou Decruss
> wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23212514/
I saw something as disturbing as this on Drudge Report a few weeks ago.
It was a national big-box pet store that had pets neutered without
anesthesia (video shot by an employee - apparently someone with a
conscience).
We'll likely see more and more of these kinds of practices as time goes
on and we take a cut in out standard of living. What cost cutting
measures in the way of animal abuse do you suppose take place when
people complain to stores about having to pay so much more now for
groceries? Cost cutting in animal-related businesses always hits
animals first and hardest.
Can anyone today imagine the animal abuse that existed before
motorized/mechanized industry? Horses... well, use your imagination,
you see how people treat their pets sometimes and wonder just how
inured to suffering folks were who depended on animal power to make a
profit? How humane were the workers and owners at rendering plants and
feed lots (hint: read Upton Sinclair - The Jungle)?
I remember a neighbor who had a donkey for his young girls to ride. In
the winter, in the cold rain and sometimes snow and ice, with no cover
not even a tree, that animal used to bray through the night for help.
Asked about it, the guy said, "It'll toughen him up."
Animal control and said they could do nothing because the county had
cut their contract back to include only the removal of dead animals
from roads. I called the sheriff and they said that they aren't doing
animal complaints because there have so much business to attend to in
their own cost-cutting environment. I was told they aren't rolling
expensive equipment, highly trained (college educated police academy
trained) personnel on animal complaints. After asking, "what if I went
over there and took care of the problem myself?" Ten minutes later I
had two deputies on my doorstep with hands on pistols to ask me what I
meant (but they still wouldn't go next door to ask the guy about his
animal).
I'd guess that we'll have to get used to animal cruelty because it's so
low on the horizon of so many people and agencies when cost becomes a
factor, which it is and will increasingly become so in the future, I'm
sorry to have to predict.
I saw something as disturbing as this on Drudge Report a few weeks ago.
It was a national big-box pet store that had pets neutered without
anesthesia (video shot by an employee - apparently someone with a
conscience).
We'll likely see more and more of these kinds of practices as time goes
on and we take a cut in out standard of living. What cost cutting
measures in the way of animal abuse do you suppose take place when
people complain to stores about having to pay so much more now for
groceries? Cost cutting in animal-related businesses always hits
animals first and hardest.
Can anyone today imagine the animal abuse that existed before
motorized/mechanixed industry? Horses... well, use your imagination,
you see how people treat their pets sometimes and wonder just how
inured to suffering folks were who depended on animal power to make a
profit? How humane were the workers and owners at rendering plants and
feed lots (hint: read Upton Sinclair - The Jungle)?
I remember a neighbor who had a donkey for his young girls to ride. In
the winter, in the cold rain and sometimes snow and ice, with no cover
not even a tree, that animal used to bray through the night for help.
Asked about it, the guy said, "It'll toughen him up."
Animal control and said they could do nothing because the county had
cut their contract back to include only the removal of dead animals
from roads. I called the sheriff and they said that they aren't doing
animal complaints because there have so much business to attend to in
their own cost-cutting environment. I was told they aren't rolling
expensive equipment, highly trained (college educated police academy
trained) personnel on animal complaints. After asking, "what if I went
over there and took care of the problem myself?" Ten minutes later I
had two deputies on my doorstep with hands on pistols to ask me what I
meant (but they still wouldn't go next door to ask the guy about his
animal).
I'd guess that we'll have to get used to animal cruelty because it's so
low on the horizon of so many people and agencies when cost becomes a
factor, which it is and will increasingly become so in the future, I'm
sorry to have to predict.
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In article >, Sqwertz
> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:53:55 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>
> > "Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >>
> >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23212514/
> >
> > "Authorities said the video showed workers kicking, shocking and otherwise
> > abusing "downer" animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk
> > into the slaughterhouse. Some animals had water forced down their throats,
> > San Bernardino County prosecutor Michael Ramos said."
> >
> > Future Blackwater employees.
>
> That video was seen by the Feds 3 weeks ago, yet it took them
> another 2-3 weeks to ask for a recall. This is their usual MO.
> (Assuming this is the video I think it is - I didn't click the
> link).
>
> -sw