Pig Slaughter

Most people say that pigs are dirty. Well, that isn't true, as they roll in mud to keep away the flies. And even if the look dirty, that doesn't keep them from feeling pain. After all, they still are animals.

For pigs about to be slaughtered stress comes in many forms. They get stressed up because of deprivation of food and water, rough handling, exhaustion due to transportation over long distances, and mixing of animals reared separately, resulting in fighting. Stress can even result to death which is uncommon in pigs for slaughter.
Pigs are fed on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's), and their feces are loaded with antibiotic-resistant microbes and heavy metals.
Transport Terrors

To make the pigs get into the truck the workers may beat them on their sensitive backs and noses or stick electric prods into their rectums.
'Downers' are sick and injured pigs who are so week they are unable to stand or walk. The 'downers' will be kicked, struck with electric prods and finally hauled out of the trucks only to be slaughtered.
In winter some pigs die frozen to the sides of the trucks while in summer pigs die of heat exhaustion. When additional animals are forced to pile up on top of the pigs who are already inside some suffocate. All the pigs are panicked, and are screaming. They desperately try to get away. Some even die of heart attack.
The pigs are so frightened that they scream and try to get away. There is lack of air in the trucks, as a result pigs struggle to breathe. They usually aren't given food or water for the whole journey, and the journeys are often hundreds of miles long.
In the Slaughter House

Slaughtered pig

All their lives the pigs haven't walked much, as a result there legs and lungs are so weak they can barely walk. And then they see space ahead of them and get overjoyed and start running out of the truck. Most often the pigs are running for the first time in their lives. They jump and buck, overjoyed, and then suddenly their legs can't bear their weight and the pigs collapse, their bodies full of pain from mistreatment and abuse on the factory farms.
Many pigs aren't stunned properly, as a result they are still alive and conscious when they enter the scalding tanks. The scalding tanks are meant to remove the pigs hair and soften their skin.
How painful would it be for us if we were slaughtered like that?
The average pigs life is 10-15 years. When we slaughter them their life is reduced to a horrible 6 months.

Piglet

To stop all this cruelty we will have to turn vegetarian or vegan. I have been a vegetarian all my life and I feel absolutely normal and healthy.
In fact some people say that after the pigs have been kept and slaughtered in such horrible conditions it isn't healthy to eat their meat, and it may make us sick.

Bobby Calves

Calves are such cute little animals and yet people kill them for their meat. How can we kill these cute little baby animals?

What Happens Bobby calves?
New born calves that are less than two weeks old who are separated from their mothers are called 'bobby calves'.
In dairy farms cows are forced to give birth to calves every year. Then almost all the calves are separated from their mother within twelve hours, and usually they don't even stay long on the farm.

New born calf

Cows form strong maternal bonds with their calves, so when they are separated from their calves they can be heard frantically crying out for their calves. They can even be heard crying out for their baby's  even days after they are separated.
Bobby calves are kept together and usually fed once a day with milk, milk replacer or colostrum (as humans want the mother cows milk for themselves). 
In Australia the calves are allowed to starve for upto 30 hours before slaughter. Research has found that this cruelty is harmful to the calves.
As the bobby calves will soon go to slaughter and are worth not much to the dairy farmers they don't get the same amount of housing, care, attention or cleanliness as the valuable bull calves being reared for veal or the replacement heifer calves (females). Often the bobby calves do not even receive basic care.

The conditions bobby calves are kept in

Transport requirements for bobby calves state that the calves should be minimum five days old before the can travel to the abattoir. As the age of a calf can't be judged accurately often they are younger than five days old.
The calves are even transported for upto ten hours, and crammed into trucks.
These are some of the problems bobby calves face while they are transported because of their young age:

1. Like all young animals bobby calves have got underdeveloped following 'behavior', or in other words the don't stay as a group or move where they are supposed to go. This makes loading and unloading difficult. The baby calves are prodded, pushed and even thrown.
2. They cannot handle stress, motion and length of transport.
3. At calf sales and during transport they are exposed to the elements and often aren't provided with bedding and have little space to lie down.
4. They are too young to go without milk for extended times.

After that the bobby calves face a painful and terrifying slaughter.

To help prevent bobby calf slaughter we should stop drinking milk and stop eating calf meat.

Slaughtered calves

 To see a video about the slaughter of bobby calves you can visit this link http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3681709.htm