Thursday, April 16, 2009
Live Animal Markets
This is another link that deals with animal cruelty. It talks about live animal markets in China where people can come and buy fresh animals for food. The images are very disturbing. It shows the animals living together in hordes and one very graphic shot a cat getting dragged out of a cage. These markets are places where diseases are spread such as bird flu. I believe that the clip almost makes me question absolute dismissal. The report obviously cannot dismiss the animals because she literally vomits when seas the cruelty but the sellers are treating the animals as simply for food and economic gain. I believe that their emotional less response shows that they do not truely care about the animals. I feel like the animals could be sold in a more sanitary and friendly manner but the images illustrate that the animals are simply seen for their food and economic purposes. I could not get the link the work but it is on current.com and under china's live animal markets.
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I found a great article having to do with one of the most televised animal cruelty cases out there. As most people who watch sports knows Michael Vick, the article talks of his dogs that were used for fighting. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080128-vick-dogfighting.html
ReplyDeletePerhaps treating food animals this way in live markets actually helps people to feel better about eating them. If these people were to treat their dinner humanely and considerately before eating it, they may feel some sense of remorse. Treating your chicken as if it were as good as cooked before you take it home for dinner keeps people from becoming involved with it. Treating animals as objects allows people to stay distanced enough from their food so as not to have any conflicting feelings about killing and eating it.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just live markets either. When people go to the store to buy chicken wings, it's a whole lot easier to think of them as food objects, rather than dead chicken parts. I'm almost certain people don't wonder about the individual chickens from whim those wings came. If they did, they might feel differently about eating them.
Treating anything dead or alive like this is disgusting and whoever is video taping things like this has issues. I don't see how anyone would want to eat anything that looks like that or is treated in such a horrible way. In my opinion it would make me not want to eat at all after seeing it.
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