Is slaughtering farm animals cruelty

Answer 1

stop animal crueltyYes put a healthy, stable animal to sleep is cruelty. Why put a innocent animal to sleep for no reason. I am a major animal person and i have 3 pets myself and if someone ever tried to put them to sleep for no reason i would probably go to jail, only god knows what i would do. That's sick and people who that don't deserve to have animals or be around them. I pray everyday for the innocent animals out there, everyday. Its so sad and i wish there was some type of law about the people who can have pets. People who want to have pets should have to take a test of some kind to see how safe it is for that animal to be in their care.

Answer 2

Killing animals is not necessarily cruel. Cruelty is to cause suffering deliberately or as the result of deliberate neglect. Animals can be killed as an act of kindness as well when the suffering of a sick or hurt animal cannot be alleviated in any other way.

Answer 3

well it depends what the animal is being put down for. if the animal bit someone and hurt them badly then putting them down isn't cruel but if it was being put down because it was old or ill then its not cruel its sad as they are being put out of pain which is good but they are leaving this world which is sad... :'(... but that is only my view on it other people have other views because of other experiences... hope this answers your question!! :)

Answer 4

if the animal is not sick yes but if the animal is then no your hurting the animal being inhumane as hard as it its cruel and selfish to let them suffer for your comfort they've always been there for you so don't let it end in pain

Answer 5

For short . . . yes it is. Although the animals are supposed to be stunned before slaughtering a survey of employees of 56 common slaughter houses in America said that at least 30% of all the animals being slaughtered are not properly stunned. Many animals are skinned alive while still kicking. Some pigs are killed by being picked up by the hind legs and having their heads bashed into the ground. If this is not cruelty then what is?

Another Answer:The answer above only depicts the cruelty that sometimes happens in those few slaughter houses that are not federally inspected or have no humane standards for properly handling animals for slaughter, particularly with the pigs one, not the ones that are so-called "skinned alive". Yes it's cruel if they can't kill animals in a humane fashion, but to say that slaughtering itself is cruel is putting human characteristics and psychology in place of what's really going on in an animal's mind right before it is killed. This is called anthropomorphizing, and is a very unhealthy and highly unrealistic means of defining what an animal's behaviour is really about.

In my personal opinion, slaughtering animals is NOT cruelty, and before you start heckling and bereaving me about being indifferent, selfish and bunch of other names you can call me, let me tell you why. All animals, except humans, live in the now, and have no comprehension nor fear of death. They don't know what death is, what is "beyond" or what death is really about, and they, quite frankly, do not care one bit. As for us humans, though, it is a cultural and historical fact that we fear death. It's in the stories we tell, the books we read, the movies we see, and the intense emotions we feel when we hear of someone dying or when we realize we are only a certain amount of time before our time is up. Thus it is purely and only human emotion that makes people who wish to stick up for the "rights" of animals believe that slaughtering is cruel.

An animal does not know that when he is put into a chute intended for slaughtering animals he is seconds away from death. All he's concerned about are the unfamiliar sights, smells and sounds that are around him. Then the next thing he knows there's a capbolt shot into his brain, and suddenly he feels sleepy and decides to lay down for a nap. It's the same with the Halaal method of slaughtering animals: they really don't feel the very sharp knife cutting through their jugular vein, and quite suddenly feel tired enough to just lay down and have a sleep. (If you've ever cut yourself with a very sharp knife or a razor, quite often you don't even know you've cut yourself until you see the blood. A few minutes after is when you start feeling the pain.)

The part that makes slaughtering seem cruel is the gory part: all the blood that comes out of the animal when slaughtering occurs, and the jerking, kicking movement after being stunned, as what the previous answerer wrote about. To tell you the truth, that kicking movement is NOT an indication that the animal is still alive! That is just involuntary movement after the animal is dead. If there is no breathing, eyes are not blinking upon being touched and the animal is not vocalizing, then it is already dead.

Answer 6

Tranquilizing allows an animal to be worked on or medicated by a caretaker or veterinarian. Whether the tranquilizing medication just allows the animal to relax, or the animal is almost completely unconscious it's use is generally thought to be beneficial in nearly all cases.

Answer 7

There are too many unknowns in the question. "Putting an animal to sleep". AKA killing it in a humanize manner is not cruel of itself. A for the reasons they are numerous, The animal may be:

• Healthy but difficult to deal with
  
• Owned by a deceased owner
  
• Healthy but old
  
• A species with no intrinsic merit
  
• A species bred to be killed for food

To big or requiring too much specific care for care by anyone other than an expert.

These problems must be examined to determine the best option. Remember all food animals are healthy (by law) when converted to food.