The gun is designed so that the nail never completely leaves the gun, but simply is blown into the animal's head and then pulled out by the butcher as the animal collapses. Three of the four times I saw it used, it did the job on the first try, but one cow struggled a good deal after collapsing. After the animal has collapsed, the side of the killing stall is raised, and a chain is secured to the right hind leg. The cow is then hoisted by that one leg to a hanging position. At this point, the butcher drains the body of blood by slitting the cow's throat.” (Gifford Dave, 2003)

After reading this, would you be able to look at the piece of meat on your plate and still consider it just a piece of meat? Could you still so casual

When eating steak for dinner, or maybe pork chops, most people never stop to think how that meat arrived in the grocery store, and further on their plate. We simply suppose that the animal was humanely killed and processed in a clean, hygienic way. In many cases this is true, but most cases belong to a darker side, a shocking alternative to how we assume our meat ends up on our plates. Licensed slaughterhouses are more or less forced to follow certain rules and regulations in conducting their business. In addition to these certified facilities that slaughter inhumanely and butcher sadistically, there is an even darker side of the industry: the world of illegal unlicensed slaughterhouses, where animals are murdered without any concern about the methods used. A screwdriver, dull knives and axes are only a few of the inhumane tools of the illegal slaughter business; and the cruelty and hostility doesn’t end here.

Animal mutilators are everywhere, and all the same, whether they do it for money or sadistic pleasure. Our courts of law should have no sympathy for animal murderers, and yet they do. Cat mutilator Jesse Powers, resident of Ontario, received the minimum penalty for animal cruelty and mischief, and the prohibition to own or have custody of a bird or animal for the next five years. “Mr. Powers and at least two other men stole a healthy pet cat, vivisected it, skinned it as it twitched and meowed, and gauged out its eyeball, all the while videotaping their acts as part of what they say was an art project.” (Mitchell Alanna, 2002) Jesse Powers i

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