The Washington herald., 1922-01-18

Agricultural Buildings I pass
through the Center Market, and
there constantly see cruelty to
calves and poultry. One OF the two
humane police agents at certain
times of the day is on duty around
here. but he can not be everywhere
at once, and it is necessary for the
regular police and the public 10
take their parts in protesting,
warning and not patronizing the
dealers so persistently guilty of
cruelty. A few fearless persons are
doing what they can. but more are
needed. 1t is bad enough that these
creatures go through the painful
slaughtering process, but il is heap
ing insult upon injury that they be
made to suffer on the way to their
destination. From the. mere health
stand point vegetarians are better
off than those who eat animals and
their products. The writer has
been an abstainer from meat for
over ten years, and from all animal
products for the last few years,
But those who eat meat should
realize that the product is much
worse by reason of certain changes
in the flesh when the animal has
undergone suffering before slaugh-
ter
The sheep and calves awaiting
their throat-cutting always look so
pitiful. After being dumped from
the wagon. most of the latter arc
urged to the death pen by being
pulled along by the choking neck
rope. and by having their tails
twisted. One fearless woman dis
covered a young calf lying under =
counter, its four legs bound to-
gether so tightly that, when at her
command the strings were cut the
little thing could not stand.
overcrowding and rough handling
are the inexcusable cruelties in
fiicted upon poultry at all seasons
Of the year. have seen loaded
coops knocked about and piled up
like so much drygoods, little care
being taken to make sure that some
fowls head was not protruding
from the top Of one coop before
another was banged down upon it.
| witnessed a ghastly spectacle of
a chicken that had been caught and
strangled in this manner by the
coop on top OF it's own. i have
seen numbers of chickens piled on
the pavement, killed during trans
oortation by trampling. stranglinC,
or other injuries. There is a con-
tinuous ruawking when the fowls
are roughly seized and thrust into
other coops Locking or wings anc
carrying heads downward are other
violations of the anti-cruefty laws.
No ono should hesitate to at leas;
inform offenders of this last phase
of cruelty. They will generally
change the positions.
In addition to all this. in tae
summertime these creatures are
subjected to the torture or thfrs,,
standing in their cramped condi-
tions in the blazing sun from morn
gasping for air. and deprived of
water.
All the year in the theaters. aud
especially in the spring when the
circuses come to town, animal acts
are witnessed by throngs of adults
and children who should knov thas
abuse and often starvation are fac
tors in the training behind the
scenes. -
Let us. as public spirited citizens.
in our efforts to make this Capital
City the example to the Country II
should be. include IN our program
the campaign against cruelty. Let
US protest against IL individually;
strengthen by membership and in
terest the societies organized to
take part in the campaign. and
through the agencies of the home,
the church and the school instil In
to our children's minds, through