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Red Jester

I have before and after Vegan experiences with slaughter-houses.

I used to own a Courier company, and one of our clients sold food packing supplies.

So, once a week I would visit a slaughterhouse.

Before I was Vegan I can't say delivering to this place was a pleasant experience. It smelled horrible. The employees would come out of the back room covered with blood and guts to sign my manifest. They would smell so bad that I always let them keep my pen. I didn't want it back.

Many times they would not hear me ring the bell that they had in their front room, so, in a hurry, I would enter the back room.

Seeing death (human or animal) on TV is a lot different than in real life. I've seen documentaries on slaughterhouses and every "Faces Of Death" movie there is, but when you add smell and texture to your experience, it's much different.

After becoming Vegan (and surprisingly my visits to this slaughterhouse did not persuade me to become one) this place seemed to be diseased. As sanitary as one would hope they would be, animal blood and by-products could be seen everywhere. On the walls, doors, floors, chairs, you name it.

The doorknobs were the most disgusting part. (You don't even want to know!).
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ChrisCrossCMP · Posted: May 23, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject:

That's...really...hmm....

nasty.

It makes me.....sick.

I'm going to try to cheer myself up now...

bigsmurf

heehee, all better.

But still...

"If slaughterhouses has glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
-Paul McCartney
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AndyBa · Lord of the posts Joined: 27 May 2001 Posts: 670

I haven't been to a slaughter house personally, but I've been to places where people from villages sell meat without packaging and such..
the smell and texture is pretty similar to what you described....

I clearly remember one chicken that was decapitated and it's head was stuffed in the place where naturally his ass would be.. I don't know what was the owner thinking? Sex sells?

If someone did a similar thing to a human being he would be considered the sickest pervert ever.
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper, M.D., author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple

BigBecka · Animal defender Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 415

Lane · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 5

I've never been to a slaughter house, but we became vegans when my wife saw chickens in crates being delivered to chinatown restaurants
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BigBecka · Animal defender Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 415

Hey Lane, I like the blog

Lane · Vegan Talk Beginner Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 5