how are cows killed in meat processing plants??
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they are shot in the head with bolts but the shooter is not always on target and they are not always killed immediatley and painlessly. many cows suffer in processing plants.
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I too am a zoology major (science grad) and cows have a stomach with 4 chambers; rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. The cow ingests food and masticates it to break the cell wall. After entering the first two chambers, the cow regurgitates the cud to further break down the food (fibres); this assists the body in accessing nutrients within the cell which are difficult to obtain due to the nature of plant cells. These chambers contain bacteria (symbiotic) that break down cellulose. The liquid pulp then passes into omasum, which removes water. Finally the food enters the true stomach, abomasum which acts like any typical stomach. Cows should actually be known as bacteriophages, simply because its actually the bacteria that gain all the energy and nutrients required...
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Try  searching yahoo:beef cutting and butchering.
850991
I taught my tobacco plants how to use a gun, to protect themselves from the Animal Rights People.\nAnimal Rights People won't eat meat, but they love to torture, and make fruits, vegetables, and tobacco plants scream as they rip them from limbs and the ground.
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It depends on how it's being slaughtered. The 'electric shock' is thought to be painless and instantaneous (I'm not sure how they know that), but some more ritual methods of slaughter, such as cutting the throat to let it bleed, are clearly slower deaths and thus painful. Your choice of the word 'objecting' is interesting - I've never seen an animal die this way but I would imagine it does object.\n\nBy the way, as per ritual slaughter (a pint of contention in some multi-religious countries), I understand that the best kosher and halaal butchers have developed a system where the animal's head is removed in a single swing and is thus as effectively painless as electrical shock. That's not a justification, just an observation.\n\nIt's best not to think about it if you want to go on eating meat... It's enough to make anyone consider vegetarianism!
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we change the chain to our own best interests\n\nTake for example a cow. Cows would not be around today if it were not for humans. If humans stopped breeding cows they would be extinct in 35 years. Since they are fat and slow (good for meat and killing) natural selection works against them. However, artificial selection (human selection) works towards them)...\n\n\nMoreover people kill animals disrupting the food chain.
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Cows are descended from a European species called the Aurock.  The last Aurocks were killed by board German soldiers during WWI.  They just felt like shooting something.
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FACTS:\n1.Our teeth should be differently shaped in order to cut the meat.\n\n2.Our gastric acids would be as strong as the ones of a carnivore, to absorb all the nutrients.\n\n3.Our intestines wouldn’t be as long, since all great carnivores have it short in order to get rid of the toxins faster. (meat do decompose faster/worse than vegetables, its just that it have lots of preservatives and colorants). In the other hand, must animals with a vegetarian diet have long intestines in order to absorb all the nutrients, since their gastric acids are not as strong… you can see that there are some that even digest their meals more than once…\n\n4.Our nails would be sharper and stronger, if we were to be having meat as our main meal.\n\n5.… what does a bull have for meals?? Are they weak?? … eating a bull doesn’t transfer their strength…. or meat!!! (as I read above)\n\n6.By eating meat you are more likely to get ostheoporosis, since there are elements in the meat that make your bones wear out, by that i mean that people literally pee their calcium.\n\n7.You should tell those people that in the long term your decision is wiser… \na.Yeah, we are ALL of F..cked up with all the transgenic and lack of control over the conditions and place in which those seeds are planted.\nb.Yeah, earth is becoming less fertile worldwide (believe me, I’m not in USA)\nc.But an animal is not hurt in order for you to eat… I’ve seen reports on genetic modifications to improve the mass production in Israel, such as lack of feather, nails and beak.\nd.and in the other hand, you are not absorbing all the chemicals they get those animals to grow fast with.\ne.and you are not absorbing all the bugs they have inside, including mad caw, etc. (by the way the mad cow disease started over twenty years ago, or at least that is as far back as we can track cases… it started with stupid eager farmers feeding their animals with dead animals)\nf.and you are not absorbing all the chemicals/antibiotics to get those animals to survive with.\ng.And finally, just as we could all, in a future... go into a world crisis because the water is not potable anymore, the trees have all become transgenic thanks to good mother nature and pollinization, same.. or I’d say worst!!! Would be to be starving as all of us with the addition of a disease that has no way of being controlled because it has been chemically fortified by the alphabet of antibiotics and hormones that are in the meat.\n\nBonus:\n1.I grew up hearing that as little as seven almonds a day could give me the amount of protein I could get from the meat.\n\nAs long as you don't base your diet on your favorite vegetables only, you'll be just fine. Amino, anti oxidants (... is that the way to spell it?) ... I'd say there are too many extremist in both currents.. just respect, and make yourself be respected... it is a choice, a philosophy of life.\n\n2.Meat eaters tend to have more cholesterol and heart problems. Vegetarians live longer.\n\n3.Meat eaters should check on their diet just as much, even though must of them, don't care much and are not selective at all\n \n4.www.themeatrix.com\n\n5. yes it's harder to get the iron in a natural source. but you should have a good balance in your meals, have the honey for the royal queen bee, something great that comes from sugar cane we call "melaza", if neither of the last two, then folic acid and finally morning sun bath\n\nnot as long, and much easier to answer in my language, hope it served for something...
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Well,\nDo you think slaughtering a cow is abuse?\nOr cutting a chickens head off to butcher it?\nOr sticking a sharp hook through a fish, then chopping it's head off. \nOr throwing a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.\nUnless you are a Vegan, its all abuse, right? \nIf you eat animals, what dif does it make which one you are "abusing"? \nAlligator tail is the healthiest meat you can eat.\nHow about all the gators in Fl eating humans and puppies, is that abuse?  Makes you go  HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
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Grass grows.  Grazing animals (herbivores) eat grass and convert it to flesh.  Meat eating animals (carnivores) catch and eat herbivores.  Carnivores die.  Bacteria, fungi and other micro-organisms cause decay.  The decay products help fertilse the grass so it can grow, and the process repeats.\n\nIt is a little more complicated than that, but the  basics are as set out above.
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They routinely grind up meat parts and process it into cattle feed.  That's one reason that they had a problem in Britain with the mad cow's disease - they still let them use, of all things, road kill in the cattle's food.  We never allowed that here.\n\nCow's normally won't eat a piece of meat, at least when it looks like meat and tastes like meat.  And they chew things up very thoroughly, so it is almost impossible that they would "accidentally" eat the stuff.  It is only when it is ground up and dried and slipped in with oats and stuff that they eat it.\n\nSo since they SEEM fine with this, general health wise, I imagine that other plant eaters would seem to be, too.  I believe they do this with poultry feed also.  How they really are or feel.......
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meat production, i assume it means killing animals. \nsome answers may seem stupid here.\nyes, beacuse\nmainly)))   The practice of raising mass produced animals in corporate animal farms to be slaughtered for human consumption is unnecessary and ultimately morally unacceptable. Corporate animal farms hurt the environment, the consumer and the animals under there control. Therefore corporate animal farms are harmful and should be phased out of there current existence. Consuming factory farmed meat by humans is primarily for pleasure, (it tastes good) and is unnecessary since a plant based diet has been proven to be healthier and can taste great as well. Corporate animal farms consume large amounts of water and other natural resources and produce vast amounts of waste which pollutes the environment. To cause pain and death to an animal and harm the environment for the trivial purpose of pleasuring an individual’s immediate sensual gratification without considering how the product is produced is irresponsible. \n\n\n\n1) some religion thinks that all animals are living things and thus, they should not be killed. \n2) in geo, if we eat more meat, more people will have less to eat because of the food pyramid. a cow eats so much plants in a liofe time and the amount of plants can feed so many people but that cow can only feed a few people.\n3)mad cow disease, H5N1 disease. it's too dangerous. \n4) extinction, we have to protect them\n5)with technology, we can produced vegeterian meat, for ex, the canned duck that's made from plants.\n6)animal waste causes polution.\n7) there's population explosion going on and land sacarcity, we don't have ebough resources for them.\n8)The use of horses for meat production is widely opposed in countries such as USA and Britain where horses are considered companion and sporting animals.There is an effort in the United State to create a law, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, designed to stop the slaughter of horses.\nPolls sponsored by various American organisations have shown that most people are not aware that horses are slaughtered in the US for consumption overseas. According to some of these polls, in New York, 64% of people polled actually believed that slaughtering horses for meat was illegal, while in Indiana, 91% believe that horse slaughter should be banned. [7] An overwhelming majority of Texas voters (89%) are unaware that horse slaughter goes on in their own state. [8]\nFrench animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has spent her latter years crusading against the eating of horse meat.\n8) there's growing meat lab nowadays and the meat is better.\n9) it's time that people be more civilise, work in cities instead of farming.\n10),eet.. especially red meat is very unhealthy. Too mush fats make us fat\n\n\n\nNO beacuse......\n1)god gave us these animals to eat.\n2) we can't be vegeterians. we need the energy.\n3)if we don't eat them, the food chain will be affect because if there is a raise in the secondary consumer, the number of primary consumer will drop.\n4)variety of food.\n5) if the animals, eat all the plants, there will be nothing to hold the soil. \n6)we do not have enough land for planting crops. example, less than 2/5 of america's fertile land is used for planting but for building things.\n7) when there is a demand for these animals, more people will have jobs and there will be more animal waste to be used as fertilisers.\n8)Horse meat is sweet, tender, low in fat, and high in protein.[1] Just like beef and pork, in some societies there is a taboo regarding the consumption of horse meat.\nHorse meat has had somewhat of a resurgence in popularity in Europe and Canada in recent years, as horses are not susceptible to BSE (mad cow disease).\nHorse meat has about 40% less calories than even the leanest beef, while supplying 50% more protein and up to 30% more iron.
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Well there is always the domesticated animals. Will your neighbors really miss their cats. Or the pesky baking dog that could be taught a lesson. \n\nWhat about cows??? You wouldn't kill them but it sure is fun
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I keep a deep freezer in my garage.  It has chicken and lots of meats and stuff.  Every year we have a cow butchered to be made into steaks, ground beef, roast, etc.  Well, It was the middle of the summer and it was hot.  I had been to the grocery store and stopped by the garage to put some chicken in the freezer.   Somehow, the freezer had been unplugged.  So when i opened the freezer, the smell almost knocked me over. It was a bloody slushy raw meat soup.  Since it was airtight, there were no bugs or maggots yet, but I had to work fast.  My husband was away and he had the pickup truck.  I ran in the house and changed my clothes and got gloves and trash bags.  I couldnt put it in MY trash dumpster because they wouldnt pick it up for another 4 days, and by then the smell would kill everyone in the neighborhood.  My mom's (who lived 5 miles away) would be picking up later that day.  So i loaded up all  400 lbs of these HEAVY nasty bags of melted rotten meat into the trunk of my car and made 4 trips to remove all of it.  Luckily it was just smell and no maggots were yet involved.   I cleaned and bleached the freezer.  I still own it and it works great.  I burned the clothes i was wearing.   It was very gross.
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Can you say cattle and sheep being led to slaughter? It's so much easier to hide your head in the sand and hope it goes away but all that really happens is you get kicked in the ass and turned into dinner
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Cows give bacteria an appropriate microenvironment to develop and grow, well protected from the harsh conditions of the outside environment. The bacteria also get enough food to live. \nIn return, bacteria process the cellulose present in plants (which mammals can´t digest) into simpler sugars that can be absorbed and utilized by the cow as an energetic source.
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What the animal eats affects it. Also I've been told an animal that isn't killed quick - for example chased for a while or wounded and runs before dying or getting a fatal shot - the adrenaline affects the meat. I'm not sure how much truth there is in it but it makes sense. The deer that tastes like roast beef probably was killed quick and cooked differently. I agree on the taste varies - but can well be a combination of things.