since i am without an interesting issue in my life to write about, i'll write about animals - the truly forgotten ones.
firstly, about the live export of livestock. it's a forgotten story; it has never been in our minds. i know that i would have just continued with my daily life without giving a damn about it, happily carrying on eating succulent meat, and forever being in the dark, save for one animal rights campaigner who made a difference and got evidence from inside an indonesian abattoir to show the world what was really going on.
an abattoir is truly a disgusting place. especially if the policies and regulations regarding animal welfare are there but not enforced. in a muslim-dominated country like indonesia, the animals are supposed to be slaughtered without being stunned, which is fine, as long it's done in a humane and minimalistic way so the animal doesn't suffer. however this is not the case. so much for humane!
just go here if you want the evidence. *note: do not watch if you have a faint heart, it will make your stomach churn
the religion states this: before slaughtering, you should bless the animal. wtf is this then!! yes animals are animals, they are considered to be less than humans, some might even wonder, why are there such things like animal rights when there are many humans who don't have access to their rights? i feel very pissed off by reading news articles about the farmers who complain about losing income and blah blah blah due the suspension of the export. and even more annoyed when it was discovered that the organisation responsible for the live export trade knew about this for 10 years and more. and still chose to ignore it. and the government is rather useless too. come on, saying you're not going to trade with indonesia for 2 months isn't really a big step against this. they'll still practise putting the animals in little boxes, free to continue, without fear of any backlash, even saying that if the government doesn't trade with them, sure no problem. we have heaps of other potential countries who wish to trade with us. we don't need you. it's more like, you need us, because your economy is crumbling.
the saddest thing is that animals cannot protest, defend themselves from the sad fate that awaits them - being slaughtered with all their emotions and feelings still intact, able to feel every slash of the knife. what does this treatment exactly constitute? animal cruelty - a forgotten occurrence.
i am aware i sound like a pathetic wannabe-do-gooder at the moment for writing all this, especially because i am a meat eater myself and i barely bother to wonder about where the food i eat comes from, how their short life was, how they were slaughtered. however this is just my stance on the consequences that result from the live export of cattle and other animals.
so i just wrote a whole lot about live export. which is only one small part of the forgotten things.
secondly, the cruel use of animals as a joke, with the purpose to entertain.
take a look at this.
yeah thanks idiot who put this up on facebook. "haha look i just washed my puppy and now i'm hanging it out to dry" is not fking the bomb. and later apologizing only because the media picked it up and you got heaps of hate for it. as if the idiot was truly sorry for what he'd done. if he'd been truly sorry, he wouldn't have even done this in the first place anyway!
so let's just not pretend that these are not happening. and choose to take action, no matter how small. let's not forget.
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