Pigs are heard with their almost human-like screaming as knives cut their throats. They writhe in pain until they die. After discovering the horrors of the slaughterhouse, many people cannot help but chew a piece of steak and shudder at the reality of how the cow was killed. Shel Silverstein wrote a poem entitled Point of View where he writes how the author used to enjoy a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving until he realized that it was not a happy holiday for the turkey. Cows and chickens are treated with indignity and are often killed with painfully cruel methods.
Most meat comes from factory farming.
The conditions of these factories are horrific. These animals are usually genetically mutated. Some of the bone structure is mutated so badly that often cows legs will simply break beneath them. These cows are called downers and are left to die a slow painful death. All male cows and chickens are castrated without any painkillers.