acti-veg:

To all those who insist that those horrible videos of animal cruelty “don’t happen here,” I can promise you that wherever you are, they do. Every nation thinks that their animal welfare standards are the best in the world, and everyone wants to dismiss those awful cruelties as something happening in some far away place, where the laws are different than they are where you live. The truth is that standard industry practices are pretty much the same everywhere, it just isn’t the case that some countries are cruel and others aren’t. You could show the majority of people a dozen slaughterhouse clips, all from different nations, and most would not be able to tell the difference. I’ve shown people where I live clips from local slaughterhouses, who supply the meat I know they buy, and they still just will not accept that this is something which could ever happen here. 

It’s just too easy to dismiss cruelties as something that happens elsewhere, because it means that you don’t have to feel responsible. The truth of the matter is that if an animal is being treated as a commodity and exploited for profit then their welfare will never be taken seriously, and that is true no matter where they are being raised. Where it’s free range, grass fed or organic they usually all end up in the exact same slaughterhouses, and slaughter is always cruel no matter where it happens. There is no nation on earth which has granted animals the fundamental rights they deserve.