Cruelty to animals in the dairy and meat industry
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A story made our papers recently where cameras had been installed in cow barns and unbeknownst to the perpetrators, their "horrific" abuse of the animals was caught on film. It caused quite a furor. I don't think the issue is about what we can see in the broad light of day, but rather what goes on behind the scenes, and/or what is deliberately hidden from us. Educating yourself can surely not be a bad idea when it comes to how your food is raised; the chemical concerns alone should prompt such an investigation as to what toxins you may be putting in your body. That animals are treated so inhumanely should also be a concern. Even though I may tell the board at large that becoming vegetarian is what some promote as the best thing any one person could do to support the planet, I am not saying anyone should stop eating meat. Also, here in Canada, bovine growth hormone was outlawed as it was in some European countries, but allowed in the States. A change in some laws recently means that more of this substance is going to be in our foods. A European Union report on the animal welfare effects of BST (the hormone in question) states that its usage often results in "severe and unnecessary pain, suffering and distress" for cows, "associated with serious mastitis, foot disorders and some reproductive problems." rBST has not been allowed on the market in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel or the European Union since 2000. Argentina also banned the use of rBS. The Food and Drug Administration, WHO, and National Institute of Health have all independently stated that dairy products and meat from BST-treated cows are safe for human consumption. It is controversial. Hormones are used in other meat stock, such as chickens, and fish farms are a travesty, with just about everything they said would not happen having come to pass already in terms of disease and lack of confinement to protect indigenous wild species. Have I mentioned the butterflies and bees yet?
PETA is deceiving viewers of their video. By far most cattle live like you wrote, fattening up a few years on green pastures. But ranchers don't grow them up as a hobby just to raise them like we do children.
The animals are loaded up and auctioned off to facilities like in the video, fattened up a few weeks in pens, hen slaughtered in numbers like Solomon's 120,000 in a day, day by day.
Amid the millions of slaughters come the stray cell phone recordings of an individual here and there that does something unusually cruel. The video goes viral, and the slaughter industry is vilified as a whole.
It would be possible to take a few "snapshots" of posts here to produce a lying video that would portray the members here as being atheists, cruel monsters, perverts, whatever the Devil likes, by focusing on a few abuses.
The animals are loaded up and auctioned off to facilities like in the video, fattened up a few weeks in pens, hen slaughtered in numbers like Solomon's 120,000 in a day, day by day.
Amid the millions of slaughters come the stray cell phone recordings of an individual here and there that does something unusually cruel. The video goes viral, and the slaughter industry is vilified as a whole.
It would be possible to take a few "snapshots" of posts here to produce a lying video that would portray the members here as being atheists, cruel monsters, perverts, whatever the Devil likes, by focusing on a few abuses.
There is nothing wrong with killing animals and producing milk and so on, what is wrong is the treatment of the animals during thier life time, stamping on a cows head is not right, but of course these things are not usual or standard practices and to say boycott the milk industry because of a few cases of abuse is ridiculous.
We'll see more and more false teaching according to 1 Timothy 4:1-5 (KJV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
[SUP]4 [/SUP] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
[SUP]5 [/SUP] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
The spiritual application of that verse is concerning the issue of meat possibly sacrificed to idols, or of an "unclean" species, which doesn't affect a Christian. Those sources of meat were considered far more detestable than how an animal was prepared for slaughter. Animals were slaughtered daily in the full view of children taught to take part in that job.
The deception comes through the way the false teachers package their message. There is no biblical reason for a Christian to abstain from meat. None whatsoever. We are not encouraged to avoid meat for any reason, especially over how animals are brought from farm to table. Paul didn't discourage eating meat on the basis of the fall of God's perfect world, either, which from the fall of Adam until now our diet including meat has not ended. Their blood for consumption was put of limits.
If you think some deliberate abuse is occurring somewhere, contact the appropriate authorities, or call PETA or some other animal watch group that will quickly report abuse and follow through. Document a case rather than pass on hearsay.
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
[SUP]4 [/SUP] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
[SUP]5 [/SUP] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
The spiritual application of that verse is concerning the issue of meat possibly sacrificed to idols, or of an "unclean" species, which doesn't affect a Christian. Those sources of meat were considered far more detestable than how an animal was prepared for slaughter. Animals were slaughtered daily in the full view of children taught to take part in that job.
The deception comes through the way the false teachers package their message. There is no biblical reason for a Christian to abstain from meat. None whatsoever. We are not encouraged to avoid meat for any reason, especially over how animals are brought from farm to table. Paul didn't discourage eating meat on the basis of the fall of God's perfect world, either, which from the fall of Adam until now our diet including meat has not ended. Their blood for consumption was put of limits.
If you think some deliberate abuse is occurring somewhere, contact the appropriate authorities, or call PETA or some other animal watch group that will quickly report abuse and follow through. Document a case rather than pass on hearsay.