Have you eaten a hamburger recently? Well, let me tell you how your hamburger was made. A pneumatic nail gun is placed against a cow's head and fired. The gun is designed so that the nail never completely leaves the gun, but simply is blown into the animal's head and then pulled out by the butcher as the animal collapses. After the animal has collapsed, but is still conscious, the side of the killing stall is raised, and a chain is secured to the right hind leg. Next, the cow is then raised to a hanging position. At this point, the butcher drains the body of blood by slitting the cow's throat. When the blood vessels are severed, there is such an instant rush of blood the butcher is unable to step aside fast enough to avoid being covered with it. .
The world today is becoming less aware of the pain and suffering being inflicted on animals. Animal rights, is a topic that is very important to me. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother always told me to look on every product I purchased, to make sure the company did not test on animals. Even to this day I still look before I buy. Hopefully, by the time you've finished reading this essay, I will have somehow wavered your opinion on this controversial subject. .
It has been shown that animals are capable of feeling pain, hunger, thirst, loneliness, and kinship. Millions of animals suffer and die in laboratory experiments, likely to cause pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm. An estimated additional eight million are bred .
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and then destroyed. Each year about five million Mice, rats, dogs, cats, monkeys, horses, cows and pigs are used for experimentations. .
Animals are subjected die in lethal dose tests performed in the United States. During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animals throats, or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death by stomach rupture or from the sheer bulk of the chemical dosage.
