Why vegans do not eat the bodies of other animals?

ANIMAL FARM: FARM AND SLAUGHTER

Nonhuman animals are individuals who also have the capacity to suffer and interest to enjoy your life. This is the main relevant ability for an individual deserves to be respected and considered morally, since it indicates that may be affected by our actions. There is no minimally coherent argument can establish that their interests are to be undervalued by our species homo sapiens. The criterion of species (speciesism) is an arbitrary criterion, and therefore unfair, and what is the criterion of race, sex, or national intelligence.

As is the case with animal products (milk, eggs, honey) we can live healthily without eating meat if we follow a diet without animal products.

Animal Exploitation that produce meat consumption

All kinds of animals are killed and slaved to use their bodies as food. The animals who suffer this custom are fish, chickens, ducks, pigs, rabbits, turkeys, sheep, cattle, dogs, cats, dolphins, insects, bushmeat, ... in a spiral of decline that knows no bounds:

"To me the weirdest thing happened to me at a table was when I ate human flesh without knowing it. Occurred at a banquet offered madman Bokassa when proclaimed emperor of the Empire of Central Africa in 1976. Thing served Parisian restaurant Maxim's, but there was a meat dish that was made there and they said it was the ultimate local cuisine. We had a meat sauce that, when tested, I found delicious. beside me was the diplomat Alberto Aza, current head of the King's House, and also liked. a few months ago we learned that the meat came from a school that Bokassa had ordered murder ". Jaime Penafiel 

Animal Farm

In Europe, the "DIRECTIVE 2007/43/EC OF THE COUNCIL of 28 June 2007 laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production" establishes standards for the enslavement and murder of chickens kept for meat production.

Pacing

Meat production begins with the murder of babies "unprofitable". PACing (or tapping) is an industry term for pig meat which means "to strike against the concrete." It is a method to kill piglets by which you take the pig by the hind legs and he crashes to the ground, causing trauma to the head. The smaller piglets from each litter were killed one or two days old, as these "dwarfs" are considered unlikely to arrive to "market weight" on the desired date for the kill.

Castration without anesthesia

The castration without anesthesia is a common torture practiced by the livestock industry and that causes extreme pain to pigs. The purpose of this practice is that the meat of these animals does not acquire an unpleasant taste when they adultos.

Research

The living conditions of animals on farms and slaughter and is inherently cruel, as is an abuse of defenseless beings. Defenders of these practices often say that nonhuman animals are the "treated well" on farms and the killer "without pain" in slaughterhouses, complying with regulations, this is the welfarist argument. These people say that only violates the rules of "animal welfare" in isolated cases, but the reality is very different, as shown in numerous studies:

- In November 2012, the Spanish organization Animal Equality issued a new research investigation in the foie gras industry. This time it shows the living conditions of the animals on the farm Caracierzos, the second farm of foie gras with increased production of Spain.