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Large slaughterhouse in Belgium closed after video of animal treatment leaks.

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Caayn

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The slaughterhouse in Tielt, Belgium used to process 1.3 million pigs per year. But now the Belgium government has retracted the permit after a video taken by an Animal Rights activist has found its way online.

The activist in the video tells, and shows, us that pigs are brutally tortured before they're put to rest. Employees at the slaughterhouse aren't afraid to
pull pigs by their ears, hang them alive, cut them alive without anesthetics and even throw them in 60°C water leaving to drown.

The meat was sold as "goed voor iedereen", or "Good for everyone" when translated, by the supermarket chain, Delhaize, who has now cut ties with the slaughterhouse.

The CEO of the slaughterhouse responded with the following. (Please excuse my translation skills)
It can't be that all the effort put into the well being of the animals is nullified by irresponsible behaviour of a few employees
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A few violations of protocol have been filmed and put together in this video. The footage has been created with the use of a hidden camera over the course of 1½ month. This method results in a large amount of video footage, that have let to the video where the viewer gets the impression that this is par-of-the-course. It is not. The specialised external control would've never allowed this to happen.
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Full 20min video WARNING! SHOCKING IMAGES! http://player.cdn01.rambla.be/?account_id=VzaPKg&item_id=24lKYN

Belguim/Dutch source: http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170323_02795352
 
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Chaos2Frozen

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Yeah no, if it happens repeatedly over the course of a month, then it's a common occurs.

Your people fucked up, and so did you Mr CEO.
 
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AlexFlame116

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I watched it and I-I can't believe it. This is horrific! I was horrified at seeing the poor pigs and just how mutilated some of them were! They don't deserve that! Nothing does!

What monsters!

If you can't stand animals suffering please don't watch the video.
 
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the1npc

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As if any slaughter house treats animals well its a slaughter house...the pigs can hear othet pigs screaming and there is the smell of shit and blood everywhere
 
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Joni

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the1npc said:
As if any slaughter house treats animals well its a slaughter house...the pigs can hear othet pigs screaming and there is the smell of shit and blood everywhere
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There are rules. Like not killing animals that aren't sedated. You are still killing them but no reason to make it as cruel as this.
 
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Vincent Alexander

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the1npc said:
As if any slaughter house treats animals well its a slaughter house...the pigs can hear othet pigs screaming and there is the smell of shit and blood everywhere
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My close friend used to work in a slaughterhouse. They definitely did not do shit like what is shown in the video...not even close.
the1npc said:
This is true but is there much difference between cruel and a bit more cruel?
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Yes. Killing doesn't necessarily mean being cruel. Cruel is purposefully inflicting pain and suffering.
 
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Unhandled Exception

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Ziltoidia 9 said:
And to think, we made it illegal in america to take video of these type of things, if to report situations like this.
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It's almost as if this sort of treatment is widespread and those who turn a blind eye to it are complicit in sadistic acts of violence on other living, breathing, feeling lifeforms.
 
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commedieu

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What a shitty response. Better would be to just admit guilt, say that it's unacceptable, invite animal rights groups or the government to monitor further actions. Employees will be terminated and tried if possible.


Vs..


Comeahhn... a few bad apples.
 
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Hypron

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It can't be that all the effort put into the well being of the animals is nullified by irresponsible behaviour of a few employees
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Talking about well being when the whole purpose of a slaughterhouse is to kill animals... huh.
 
Dice//

Dice//

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That would sincerely be enough for me to stop eating pork.

10 seconds of footage and I got teary eyed.
 
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Azuran

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People that do shit like this need to be treated like psychopaths. There's a clear lack of empathy for life at display here.

Maybe working in an environment like this makes you desensitized to the fact that pigs and other animals are actually living beings, but holy shit, this is just on another level. There are serial killers out there that are more dignified and less cruel than this.
 
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Unhandled Exception

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Azuran said:
People that do shit like this need to be treated like psychopaths. There's a clear lack of empathy for life at display here.
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And the people who continue to purchase pieces of corpse from beings that are slaughtered for their own enjoyment and not out of nutritional or economic necessity suffer from psychopathy equally. At this point it's not even an argument of nescience, it's an argument of willful ignorance and complicity.
 
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Hydrus

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Sickening. How the heck did that guy get that good of footage without being caught? You would thought those assholes would of caught on after awhile.
 
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LizardKing

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Of all the hidden slaughterhouse cams this is one of the worst I've seen. It seemed liked the employees actually enjoyed abusing the pigs, or at least enjoyed being in control. I'm not against eating meat but there's no reason to do those things.

At the very least this is run extremely incompetently. It's fucking chaos. Live pigs being dunked face first into the scaling bath. SMH. Glad they shut it down.
 
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Jenov

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At least make sure the poor things are dead before processing :( There's no need to have them suffering so much extra like that. Upsetting.
 
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frontovik

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Just be efficient and reduce suffering as much as possible when it comes to killing animals. The company either hired the wrong people or they've become twisted in the head due to their work.

Blatant torture and acts of cruelty is pure sadism.
 
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jwhit28

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Delhaize America, owners of Food Lion and Hannaford, are relatively proactive when it comes to animal treatment. Too bad that doesn't extend to their parent company. I worked at a huge pork slaughterhouse in NC and the only contact allowed with the pigs was nudging them along with a plastic shield. I had a friend who worked in the unloading area and would talk about how supervisors put the pigs before the workers. They were herded on to a conveyor and killed with a shock collar when I started but I think they switched to a gas chamber since then. Japan was a big buyer and always had inspectors on site. This scared management to the point that security was instructed to turn away trucks that were too dirty or had distressed pigs at the gate. Farms started putting water misters on their trucks to help calm the pigs.
 
Audioboxer

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The sooner humanity can sustainably grow meat in a dish the better. If you could simultaneously know of all the abuse that happens to animals at once you'd probably die on the spot of overwhelming depression.

I say that as someone who does eat meat. Although I try to vary my diet rather than just constant meat.

Also I get that we need to supply 6-7 billion people with food but as I said the day we can do more shit artificially without downsides the better. At the very least it would reduce the insane requirements we have of mass slaughtering to try and feed everyone.
 
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SgtCobra

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Saw the video earlier today and the part where the pig was drowning in cooking water (for hair removal) made me quite uneasy and that says something as I've been brought up in a family of people who work in the meat industry. Good riddance closing that slaughterhouse.
 
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Creamium

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Yeah this was on the news, they showed some footage and I immediately changed the channel. I can't even take seconds of this. It actually makes me feel really guilty for still eating meat.
 
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TheLostBigBoss

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19 & 21 said:
And the people who continue to purchase pieces of corpse from beings that are slaughtered for their own enjoyment and not out of nutritional or economic necessity suffer from psychopathy equally. At this point it's not even an argument of nescience, it's an argument of willful ignorance and complicity.
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yea ok bud
 
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wandering

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the1npc said:
This is true but is there much difference between cruel and a bit more cruel?
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Uh, yeah? It's why there's controversy over the kinds of drugs we use in lethal injections, the kind of weapons we use in war, and how we treat enemy combatants.

I consider myself a pacifist on principle, but as long as a life is taken it's surely better to reduce suffering as much as possible.
 
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NEO0MJ

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Personally I prefer it when anesthetics aren't used, they hurt the flavor. Still, no excuse for the other stuff.

UFO said:
Ugh. Humans don't deserve to live.
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If this is serious it might be one of the most naive posts I read on Gaf.
 
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Sumio Mondo

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So do those torturous arseholes get off scot free then? Talk about psychopathic and disgusting. They need to be locked up or at the very least put into a mental health hospital for long term treatment.
 
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Dantooine

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I can't watch that. Reading about it is bad enough. I'm pretty cynical about our species and stuff like this just feeds the fire.
 
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knight123

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ITT: People who buy products from factory farms where this happens all the time complain about video of factory farming.

It's horrible of course, but don't kid yourself that this sort of thing doesn't happen regularly. Check out the countless testimonies of slaughterhouse workers in the US. Animals being skinned/gutted alive, stamped on until their guts explode, having objects shoved into their eyes/orifices happens all the time. All factory farming is bad, if you support it you're complacent and a terrible person.
 
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