Pig reportedly shot in the face 4 times at the slaughterhouse deserves justice – Petition.

Petition Link –

https://forcechange.com/558825/pig-reportedly-shot-in-face-four-times-at-slaughterhouse-deserves-justice/

Target:   Martin Dooley, President of JBS USA Pork

Goal: Terminate slaughterhouse workers who allegedly shot an incapacitated pig four times in the head and face.

A pig suffered needlessly when slaughterhouse workers allegedly shot the animal four times in the head and face. The pig was already under control, per reports, and posed no threat or struggle. Demand that JBS USA Pork immediately terminate those who inflicted this apparent cruelty.

At Iowa’s Swift Pork Company’s slaughterhouse, one pig was reportedly shot four times in the head and face before being rendered unconscious. The pig sustained wounds an inch from the right eye, in the forehead, and at the base of an ear. During this time, the worker allegedly left to retrieve more bolt charges and allowed the pig to continue suffering.

This is an unacceptable way to treat an animal, even one intended for slaughter. Humane methods of slaughter are possible and those who do not follow them should not be tasked with taking innocent lives.

Sign the petition and demand that the workers responsible for this apparently inhumane treatment are terminated at once.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Mr. Dooley,

A pig apparently endured horrific suffering and cruelty at the hands of Swift Pork Company’s workers. Per reports, the pig was shot four times in the face and head before being rendered unconscious- an inch from the right eye, twice in the forehead, and once at the base of an ear.

Pigs are extremely intelligent creatures who are said to value their lives as intensely as humans. Slaughtering them is cruel enough, but they should never be made to suffer needlessly during their transition. I demand that any worker who is proven to not utilize humane methods of slaughter be terminated at once for the benefit of these innocent animals.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

Watch the arrival and unloading of the bears at the sanctuary here:

https://video-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.26565-2/10000000_534114417519184_2416350837377194261_n.mp4?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6Im9lcF9zZCJ9&_nc_ohc=atVRHeVYH4MAX8Bj95_&_nc_ht=video-lht6-1.xx&oh=33956eb934bb3da4c80df7055b9996c2&oe=5EA5B0CC

You may remember that we put out an appeal recently regarding the really necessary rescue of 3 bile bears – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/04/21/animals-asia-breaking-3-very-poorly-bears-are-being-rescued-can-you-support-with-a-donation-thank-you/

Very sadly, it was known that a 4th bear had very recently died at the same illegal facility.

But we have great news for the remaining bears.

From Animals Asia : 

Yesterday our amazing team saved three bears from a cruel & illegal bile farm. Sadly #Covid19 restrictions meant we couldn’t reach the farm before a fourth bear died. But today is the beginning of Alice, Bân and James’ happily ever after.

In March Animals Asia was approached by the Nam Dinh Province Forest Protection Department (FPD) to urgently rescue four moon bears who were discovered on an illegal farm. However a small rise in coronavirus cases in Vietnam led to a country-wide lockdown that  delayed our chance to rescue these bears. Tragically, during this time one of the four bears on the farm died of unknown causes while the FPD was processing the case leading us to call upon the local FPD ranger’s station to take the remaining three bears into their custody to ensure their safety.

While waiting for the lockdown to be lifted the rescue team closely monitored the coronavirus situation and fortunately there were no reported COVID19 cases in Nam Dinh province leading to restrictions being loosened. Nam Dinh was classified as medium COVID19 risk, which meant that the rescue could be carried out with restrictions, including mandatory masks and a limit on the numbers of people in the rescue team. Other precautions included having the team’s temperatures taken and foreign staff needed to bring their passports to show they had not recently been overseas.

At the crack of dawn on Tuesday our team left the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre (VBRC) in Tam Dao and drove for three hours to meet the FPD Director in Nam Dinh city at around 8am. The FPD director sent officials to accompany the rescue team to the Giao Xuan Hai FPD ranger station which is roughly another 45km from Nam Dinh FPD in Nam Dinh city.

Our rescue team consisted of our Vietnam Director Tuan Bendixsen, Vet and Bear Team Director Heidi Quine, Senior Vet Surgeon Shaun Thomson, Vet Nurse Kat (Sarah) Donald, Bear Team Supervisor Dao Chau Tuan and Tran Thi Gai, Cao Manh Tien from our Vietnam PR team, and External Affairs Ung Toan The.

Life had been no fairy tale for these three bears, and it was clear by their symptoms of stress when we arrived that they had suffered quite some trauma while captive on the illegal bile farm and possibly in their capture. On inspection they appeared to be quite young bears, leading us to believe that they were captured from the wild and possibly witnessed the death of their mother while cubs.

As there were three bears and they had clearly not lived the fairy tale lifestyle of their storybook counterparts, it was decided to give them meaningful names from fairy tales. The bear in the leftmost cage was named James after James and the Giant Peach who overcame cruelty to find friendship and security. The bear held in the middle cage was given the name Bân after Princess Ban from the Vietnamese fairy tale about the clumsy daughter of the King of heaven whose warmth of love and care extends to everyone on unexpectedly cold days. Last but not least in the rightmost cage was the calmest bear Alice, whose time in a nightmarish Wonderland was coming to an end.

It took some time to persuade the bears to enter our transport cages. Alice was enticed by some sweet honey offered on a long spoon, but for James and Bân, it was the desperate desire for a drink of cool, fresh water that finally brought them in. This could indicate that when they were on the farm their access to water was limited, which could explain why it was the key motivator in helping them choose to enter our transport cages.

Once they were safely stowed on our transport truck it was just over four hours drive before they arrived at their forever home at Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre, where they will begin a vital 45 day period of quarantine, and for the first time receive a properly balanced diet and enrichment to stimulate their minds after years behind the bars of a barren cage.

Most of us have been in quarantine, isolation and lockdown for several weeks now. It’s not been pleasant, has it? Now imagine living this way for years while having an unnecessary and dangerous medical procedure forced on you. That’s precisely what’s happened to these poor bears. They have been robbed of so much of their lives.

Their grim story is over now and with your help we can give James, Bân and Alice the happily ever after they dearly deserve.

Please donate and help us change their lives forever. The only cure is kindness.

#ThreeBearsRescue

https://help.animalsasia.org/page/59360/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=threebearsrescue_social

https://www.animalsasia.org/uk/media/news/news-archive/their-happily-ever-after-begins-now-threebearsrescue.html

This video comes from a pig farm in the USA and was shot by the organization Toronto Pig save.

 
The pictures could come from anywhere, the violence and sadism of workers in animal farms and slaughterhouses is (almost) the same everywhere.

The question arises, how is it possible that a normal person becomes a cold sadist and torturer?

The subject of “psychology of the perpetrators of violence” had been occupying psychologists in the previous century, but the – often senseless – violence of the slaughtered workers deserves a special look.
First of all, it has to be said that many workers in the meat factories in the USA are illegal immigrants from Latin America and Asia who receive little or no training.

In Germany, slaughterhouse workers mostly come from Eastern Europe and are not employed on a regular basis.
The percentage of the core workforce in German slaughterhouses is only 10%, which is why Belgium submitted an official complaint about social dumping to the EU Commission in April 2013.

Certainly some slaughterhouse workers are already -by entering the industry-, people who are socio-sociopaths, that is: people who are antisocial and “conscience-free” in the clinical sense, and who often enjoy making others suffer.

In any case, this activity is mostly practiced through “learning by doing”, which means that one looks how the others do it and also does it that way.

Given the brutality of the slaughter process and (as can be seen in the video) the brutal handling of defenseless animals, it is easy to think that people whose work is killing animals are sadists or mentally disturbed.

There are many explanations as to why someone chooses this job.
The socio-political one who says that they are normal people, but have no professional training and do this to feed their family and themselves. Marxist ideology even classified them as victims of the system.

The other explanation is that they are predisposed  people, who are prone to violence and abuse of others – people or animals.

And there is also a third explanation that sees slaughterers and farm workers as the product of “group dynamics”.

It says that the extremely irrational and violent behavior arises as an obligation to adapt and to obey in a violent environment, that of other colleagues. Anyone who rejects violence against animals as immoral and inhumane practice is ridiculed by the group as a weakling, and excluded from the group’s collective gatherings in the beer garden.

According to the third aspect, a slaughterer’s room for maneuver is limited to a predetermined aggressiveness, relentlessness, which the group shows and demands.

And so at some point, the same people who originally rejected violence and felt uncomfortable, get used to participating in this violence themselves.

And they don’t feel anything anymore.

And the more they become desensitized, the more psychological stress increases because most people endure violence to a certain point.

The contact and use of violence has profound effects on the psyche, as has been found in war veterans.
You become increasingly violent, both towards animals and humans, and often develop addictive behavior.

A slaughterhouse worker said: “I often had the idea of ​​hanging the foreman upside down on the belt and stabbing him.
Because I wasn’t allowed to do that, I left out the pressure and frustration of working at the animals …
Most of the stabbers have been arrested for assault. Many have alcohol problems, they have to drink, otherwise they cannot cope with killing live, wriggling animals all day.
Some will abuse their women at some point because they “cannot get rid of these feelings”.

(Quotes from the book by Melany Joy: “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows”).

Finally, one wonders, what kind of a criminal industry is it that tolerates an extremely violent, aggressive and anti-social human potential and generates it in the real sense.

My best regards to all, Venus