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Oven Ready Humans

anon@indymedia.org (led) | 04.08.2012 22:55 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

Earlier today, activists from Derby Animal Rights engaged with Saturday shoppers outside the Guildhall meat and fish market in the centre of Derby, discussing the controversial issue of animal agriculture. In addition to an information stall, two activists were naked, wrapped in meat packaging and labelled up as "oven ready humans", drawing attention to the often overlooked reality that trays of sanitized and unrecognisable flesh in a shop chiller were once living, feeling individuals. There was a blood spattered butcher wielding a cleaver to highlight the inherent violence of the industry and a hard hitting narrative delivered over a megaphone.






The veggie campaigners distributed leaflets from various animal rights organisations such as Animal Aid (animalaid.org.uk) and Viva (viva.org.uk), whose undercover investigations have revealed widespread malpractice and brutality in the farming industry.

In the UK alone, 850 million animals and hundreds of millions of fish are killed every year to put meat on tables - that's more than three million animals a day. Before they are slaughtered, hundreds of millions lead desolate, disease-ridden lives on factory farms.

Rainforests are cleared for grazing; methane from livestock causes global warming; soil is eroded by cattle; slurry poisons waterways; and the seas are laid to waste by overfishing. The global appetite for meat and the industrial techniques of the meat industry are destroying the Earth.

Further, while 750 million people go to bed hungry every night, one-third of the world's grain is fed to farmed animals... A typical Western meat-based diet can only feed 2.5 billion people: a plant-based diet will feed every one of us.

Also worth noting is that Vegetarians live longer and suffer less from diseases such as hypertension, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain kinds of cancer and diabetes...

It was Sir Paul McCartney who first observed "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian" (see meat.org for more from this British music legend). On the evidence of today's Derby Animal Rights initiative, it seems he was right. The response from the public was generally very positive, several pledging to permanently give up meat after seeing pictures from behind the scenes of its production.

There were also petitions against the selling of kangaroo meat by Lidl, and of course against the widely hated plans to build the biggest factory farm the UK has yet seen, in Foston, just up the road...

anon@indymedia.org (led)
- http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/2714

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slaughter

04.08.2012 23:28

An animal rights person once said to me there is no difference btwn stunning and ritual slaughter. to myself it did matter the way the animal died i was disapointed in his answer.

ritual

marginal difference

05.08.2012 02:08

Animals that are slaughtered compared to the 'halal' way of killing an animal are marginally different. Both are cruel.

hala;

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I would have just told them to piss off

05.08.2012 08:02

They wouldn't have changed me! I'm an ardent carnivor and there's nothing even the most madest veggie extremist can do about it!

Dan Factor

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I think it's pretty sad

05.08.2012 09:31

Every single veggie / vegan I've seen looks like their undergoing serious nutrient deficiency. Never once have I seen a muscular herbivore, ever.

I wonder how you guys would survive if you were thrown into a jungle. You'd realize that animals will kill us, just as easy and as apathetically as we kill them. It's the way of the world.

Slaughter and killing are essential parts of humans.

Yes, I disagree wholeheartedly about battery farming etc. any method where the animal has a very poor quality of life and will be unhappy up until slaghter day comes I htink is disgusting and wrong. I prefer eating animals that have been happy, they have a much better taste. Free range organic please.

i love meat

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Typ Typ Type

05.08.2012 09:38

The serial Indymedia troll and dumbshit extraordinaire has spoken!

Spam factor

hal al

05.08.2012 10:26

The animal is faced south to mecca and its throat cut animal aid secretly filmed a a slaughterman taking 12 cuts before the animal died the video is shocking. Dont buy new zealand lamb its all hal al.

karinsh

@karinsh

05.08.2012 11:36

Don't buy any lamb, it's been murdered and is dead.

V

ritual

05.08.2012 12:39

Why is it called ritual slaughter and what is kosher.

v

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"Halal slaughter" footage faked on a film set in Qatar

05.08.2012 13:35

All these animals were murdered by the Israeli Airforce. Muslim butchers would never do that.

Knot-eyed Jaguar

South

05.08.2012 19:37

It was faced south towards mecca - in New Zealand, pull the other one.

Geographer

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disappointed

05.08.2012 21:15

they´re not naked. I wouldn´t put them in an oven with their underpants still on. Fire hazard.

wrong

??we live on planet earth yes uks better than some,halal isnt only sick

06.08.2012 00:06

way of killing animals,sadly many religions& some countries kill their animals just as horrifically,jews do it for example,judaism is a abrahamic religion like christianity, many christians would have followed this practice until relatively recent times, in some parts of UK like areas of midlands where theres no halal butchers, they are stunned& its still classed as halal, should be UK wide obviously
 http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/farm/slaughter/factfile
why the hell are some on this thread just picking up on muslims??, either your ignorant or abit-full on nazi it seems doesnt it, go rethink please,ta.

ps great action nice one peeps:),vlol& great way of doing it:),
would be great to get a calendar of this, fully naked, would sell like chocolate brandy hot cakes,x

johnny,nottingham

Fantastic

06.08.2012 08:43

If it makes only one person eat less meat ( it doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing - eating less meat helps as does being veggie if you won't be vegan) then it's worthwhile. Wouldn't do the 'oven ready human' thing in winter though - it would be 'fresh from the freezer'!

Mike

this is all subjective

06.08.2012 18:25

that is of course if you actually agree with the anti meat people.
if you like me, enjoy eating dead animals, carry on and ignore the ranting veggies, we don't care!

someone else

nazis

06.08.2012 20:40

A person asks a decent question and an idiot thicko comes out with ""nazis"" the more the veggie vegans come out with this the people will get turned off becoming veg/vegan. Grow up.

ruth

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@ruth

07.08.2012 13:20

Every single day animals are treated worse than the jews were in nazi germany. Just because it isn't your cowardly self doing the killing doesn't mean you can ignore and trivialise their holocaust.

Think on

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animaldosh

07.08.2012 17:42

John k, notts we know u was given £5,000 when u got out clink a decade ago. And other prisoners got nothing when they came out So stop with the im one the people bit. U r detested in the ar scene.

weknow

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