Quotes About Slaughterhouses
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.” –Howard Lyman
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.” –Theodor W. Adorno
“The human commitment to harmony, justice, peace, and love is ironic as long as we continue to support the suffering and shame of the slaughterhouse and its satellite operations.” –Karen Davis, PhD
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” –Paul McCartney
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: “Cattle dragged and choked… knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process alive. I’ve worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They’re all the same. If people were to see this, they’d probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn’t mean anything.” –Slaughterhouse (1997 Movie)
“The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table.” –Confucius
“Before they reach their end, the pigs get a shower, a real one. Water sprays from every angle to wash the farm off them. Then they begin to feel crowded. The pen narrows like a funnel’ the drivers behind urge the pigs forward, until one at a time they climb onto the moving ramp… Now they scream, never having been on such a ramp, smelling the smells they smell ahead. I do not want to overdramatize because you’ve read all this before. But it was a frightening experience, seeing their fear, seeing so many of them go by, it had to remind me of things no one wants to be reminded of anymore, all mobs, all death marches, all mass murders and executions…” –Richard Rhodes
“For hundreds of thousands of years the stew in the pot has brewed hatred and resentment that is difficult to stop. If you wish to know why there are disasters of armies and weapons in the world, listen to the piteous cries from the slaughter house at midnight.” –Ancient Chinese Verse
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” –Leo Tolstoy
