Why Cows Should Be Ethical

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I believe slaughtering cows should be illegal. A teacher told me of a story that her father work in a slaughter house. Her dad say instead of getting slaughtered they would rather commit suicide. To commit suicide they would jump of window instead of getting slaughtered. That’s how bad the slaughterhouse is. The way the get slaughtered is just a scary thing to be part of. Cows get stun, beat, and body parts chopped up even before they are slaughtered. This happens to them because they refuse to go into the slaughter house. So getting stung or beat is how people get them in.
Some people say cows are good for you but they don’t know what or how they get their meat.Cows were made to live, they were not made for food. Peta says, “40 to 45 cow heads crammed in there.”When cows are on there way to the slaughter house somethings it’s very hot in the summer time. But what makes it worse is that they over fill the trailer full of a lot of cows in very little space. Usually it’s 90-95 degrees in the summer time. This means that in the summertime there is lots of cows being transported 1,200 to …show more content…

When they get treated horrible like this when they get killed the meat carries the bad energy that eventually ends up in us. Putting us in bad moods, having attitudes, and or bad behavior. Also a quote from Pete website they said “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” This quote is true. We should not be eating them. What if somehow us and cow positions got switched, we wouldn’t want to be killed or slaughtered so someone can eat us. Cow are being killed in the worst ways possible and the worlds ok with it. To me that if u slaughter a cow or a human it’s the same thing has the other, just has bad. So even slaughtering cow some people say that's better than slaughtering a human but really it's not. Its pretty much the same

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