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Every part of the animal is used and sold in order to make the whole exploit
business profitable.
The animal's blood is used for fertilizer and in pet food; his hair is used for brushes
and to stuff furniture. His horns, hooves, and bones are turned into gelatin and put
into confectionary, biscuits, jellies, vitamin capsules, photographic films, and even match heads!
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The skin, which is intended to make leather, represent around 50% of the animal's
total value for the humans, which make it the most valuable part of the exploited
creature. In UK only, leather sales make a total of £435 million a year.
Leather is primary derived from cows raised for both Beef and Milk and from other
exploited animals as Pigs, Sheep, Horses,
Lambs, Goats, and Young Calves. Those animals
are warehoused in small-overcrowded stalls, often unable to turn around or even take a
step in any direction; deprived of exercise, sunlight, and even the feel of grass under
their feet. They suffer the horror of deprivation, castration – of course unanesthetized,
branding, tail docking, and dehorning.
Along with Dogs and Cats, who are killed in each of those factories, animals live in extreme cruel
conditions, and when the Human does not profit enough from them being alive,
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Many of them die before even reaching the slaughterhouse.
They do not have any water
and no break from standing in this horrible situation inside of a truck that is too small
for their numbers, a journey that can last for days.
Many international retailers routinely use skins from cows slaughtered in India.
The slaughter of cows is legal in only a few Indian states, which means that cattle
marked for slaughter must travel by road in a death march for hundreds of miles to the
few states where slaughter is legal.
Since it is illegal to kill healthy, young cattle, they are often deliberately maimed.
Their legs may be broken or they may be poisoned so that they be declared fit for slaughter,
not that too many slaughterhouse workers care.
In these death marches, cows and buffaloes trudging hundreds of miles without food or water
and with little rest. They are beaten mercilessly and driven forward in the searing Indian
heat. Their tails are broken deliberately, and tobacco and chili peppers are rubbed into
their eyes in order to drive them on or force them to stand up when they collapse. Their
hooves are often bleeding and worn down to stumps.
When transported by truck, cattle suffer unimaginably because of terrible overcrowding.
Crammed on top of each other in the trucks, the cows trample one another, unable to avoid
suffocating each other and gouging and blinding each other with their horns. The trucks
careen down twisty, bumpy dirt and gravel roads and mountain passes, pitching the cows
around, causing even more injuries. When they are unloaded, the cows who can still stand
are pulled or forced to jump from the high truck beds, often breaking legs and pelvises.
Those who have collapsed are dragged from the trucks and left lying where other cows are
unloaded on top of them.
Once inside the slaughterhouse, their throats are slit, and some have their legs hacked
off or are skinned while still alive.
"…while the cows were being loaded, I could hear the gurgling of one cow choking on her own
blood. The rope in her nose had been improperly placed, and with the constant tugging on
it by rough handlers, as well as being tethered to her fellow cattle during the 12-hour march,
it had ripped through her nose, and blood was pouring down her face."
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A common source of hide for ‘ahinsak’ footwear is dairies.
Since male calves are of no use to dairy owners (this sentence
is always makes me furious), some are sold for slaughter, while
others are intentionally starved to death so that their
skin can be sold to ahinsk manufacturers.
"…In the slaughterhouses, cows remain conscious as they feel
their feet and parts of their legs being clipped off, their neck
and stomach being spent up, and finally they feel themselves
being skinned as they make noise and look around helplessly."
Most of the animals skinned while they still warm from life. Try watching a sheep
after his throat has been cut and he is having convulsions without his skin. Blood
is everywhere. Almost all mammals who bred to be
"food" for Humans are going through this kind of trauma.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the National Football League (NFL)
with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs! It takes the leather of 4 steers to make the
72 footballs used in every NFL SoperBowl alone!
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Not all the leather comes from animals, which exploited and killed for
meat purpose. There are species, which are hunted and killed specifically
for their skin, Zebras, Bison, Water Buffalos, Boars, Deer, Kangaroos,
Elephants, Eels, Sharks, Dolphins, Seals, Walruses, Frogs, Crocodiles, Lizards,
and Snakes even Thousands of endangered olive
ridley sea turtles are captured and butchered for their skin.
Humans found many horrible ways to get off a skin from an animal:
- Gouts are boiled ALIVE to make soft leather gloves, and together with the
skin of purposely-aborted calves and lambs from slaughtered pregnant cows and ewes,
they are considered especially 'luxurious leather'.
- Snakes and lizards are NAILED, FULLY CONSCIOUS, to a tree and their skins stripped
of them – they suffer for hours and even days before dying.
The skin of a snake is stripped him after he is dead is not 'pliable enough for
fashion' use.
- Farmers strip ostriches of their feathers before slaughtering them by pulling feathers from their sockets with pliers or shaving them off with electric shears.
The majority of alligator skins used to make high-priced bags and
shoes, came from factory-farmed alligators. Ranched alligators are kept
on concrete slabs in half-sunken tin-sided sheds, up to 600 of them
inhabiting on building, which reek of rancid meat, alligators waste,
and stagnant water. Although alligators may naturally live up to 60 years, on those prisons farms,
they are butchered before they reach the age of four.
"…the worker wades into the stagnant waters and tossed out the struggling reptile.
Other workers wielding an aluminum baseball bat repeatedly smash the animal over the
head, even chasing after him to administer more blows as the wounded alligator try to
escape…the alligator continue to writhe and move minutes after he had supposedly
been killed. The workers took out
switchblade knives and slit the base of the alligator's neck…"
In other farm:
"…one worker stood on the alligator's mouth,
another on the tail, and the third used a hemmer and chisel to deliver 8 blows
to the spinal cord…it took to the alligator TWO hours to die…"
While the majority of alligator skin comes from factory-farms alligators,
nearly all crocodiles are caught in the wild. Crocodiles are often caught with huge
hooks and wires and reeled in when they become weakened from blood loss or drown.
Poachers sometimes kill one species of animal to use as bait to capture another.
In Thailand, dogs are rounded up and crushed, more than 50 at a time, into a lorry
for five days without food or water, only to become briefcases, car seat covers, and trimmings
on a fancy coat or ironically, fancy rawhide chews for pampered "pet" dogs.
Each month, 30,000 dogs suffer the same fate with their hides being exported internationally.
At a slaughterhouse on the island of Mindanao 100 cats are killed and skin a given day.
"…one by one the innocents cats were hang from their necks by ropes, they slowly and
cruelly strangled while other cats watched helplessly. They did not scream, since the rope
was pulled tighter and tighter as they struggled and slowly
suffocated…the cats were then skinned, and the skins were thrown into ice water…"
The cats are stuffed into sacks and driven to the slaughterhouses, a journey that can last up to six hours in highly
crowded track, without any food or water.
"…in the slaughterhouse cats crammed into cages,
some trying in vain to escape, others paralyzed with fear…"
Geese suffer the agony of being plucked alive four or five times during their short lives.
One description of all that down in the stores each winter: "The geese of the Hungarian Soviet
Friendship Cooperative Farm live short and unhappy lives. They are hatched without benefit of
Mother Goose in oven-like breeders. Until they are eight weeks old, the goslings are fed either
a diet 'good for livers or good for feathers.' Neither is good for the birds' happiness."
If the geese are white, they are destined to be plucked for their down (the soft, fine feathers
of young birds), which will go into pillows, parkas and comforters. These geese lead particularly
painful lives. Four or five times during the short span allotted to them, they are plucked.
"…terrified birds being lifted by their backs and then having all their body feathers ripped
out. The frantic geese struggle to escape, causing strained muscles and sometimes broken limbs."
After the last plucking, when winter approaches and cost accountants say it is more
expensive to heat the sheds than the feathers are worth, the geese are slaughtered for their meat.
Down is in high demand for bedding, and world production ends up to THOUSANDS OF TONS.
The main market is Germany. Countries where live plucking takes place include China, Poland,
and Hungary, and allegedly France and Israel.
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