Horrifying images show screaming pig moments before being clubbed to death in Thai slaughterhouse

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Horrifying images show screaming pig moments before being clubbed to death in Thai slaughterhouse

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Dan Keane

 

HORRIFYING photos show the disgusting conditions inside a Thai slaughterhouse – where pigs are clubbed to death and butchered in front of their offspring.

 

The gruesome shots show innocent pigs being beaten and having their throats slit before being lined up for slaughter.

 

The horrifying photos show pigs being clubbed to death and butchered in front of their offspring

Credit: Mediadrumimages/NPL/Jo-AnneMcArthur

 

The sickening pictures were captured by Jo-Anne McArthur, photojournalist and founder of We Animals Media, which is dedicated to ending animal cruelty via storytelling and journalism.

 

In the horrible photos, pigs can be seen beaten repeatedly with wooden clubs with their throats slit open.

 

She spent several hours exploring the Thai slaughterhouse, located just a few hours from Bangkok, after being invited to look around the abattoir.

 

WARNING: The following images may be disturbing for some viewers. Discretion is advised

Full story: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10981335/horrifying-photos-inside-slaughterhouse-pigs-clubbed-death/

 

-- THE SUN 2020-02-18

[Liverpudlian]

I have seen this my self & totaly sickened me to see how long it took to die also seen one bleeding to death after its throat was slit . L.O.S?  mmmmm.

[Lizard2010]

This is Thailand

NO checking on anything

[richard_smith237]

Rather grotesque...  The Vegans are going to love this and I kind of agree with them. 

 

Humane, instant and painless slaughter is the only civilised manner in which to slaughter animals we require for our dietary requirements. 

 

Of course, meat as a dietary requirement is debatable, the same people wishing to hold this debate will be crying out cruelty towards insects in 50-100 years time when insects become a major part of our diet. 

 

I like meat, I enjoy eating it, I consider it an essential part of my diet, I like beer and wine too and it could be argued I can do without those as they are not essential parts of my diet. With that said, I would like to enjoy meat without the associated cruelty towards these animals. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Misterwhisper]

From the original article:

"While the Thai government does have guidelines for pig slaughterhouses requiring that animals are killed "without suffering", these rules are often ignored."

 

So why are there no inspections of these slaughterhouses? Or more to the point, why are the rules ignored for death factories that are obviously as filthy and inhumane as shown in these pictures and why are they not closed down if they fail to clean up their acts?

 

Well, we all know why, as a list of the actual owners or operators of these places is very likely to contain very interesting names.

 

And in the end it's all about money (as usual). Killing pigs in a humane way would require investing in appropriate equipment and facilities. A wooden club costs practically nothing.

 

The compassion Buddhists allegedly have towards all living things is sadly missing from these horrifying images, too. In fact, I have always been shocked with how much brutality animals are generally treated in this oh so Buddhist country.

 

I am not saying that an entire nation must stop eating meat. What I am saying is that a nation that prides itself in being Buddhist should show more respect for the animals that are sustaining them and accord them the dignity to die with as little suffering as possible when the time comes.

 

It would've been interesting if the article's author had confronted the butchers and asked how they reconcile their actions with their Buddhist religion and what ludicrous excuses they have conjured. We all know the rather cynical local saying "I didn't kill the fish. I merely took it out of the water and it died by itself."   

[bangkokfrog]

Seen this in my wife's village with a pig being killed for a funeral celebration. Lots of people standing around watching including children. Most seemed to think it was quite normal.

[Nyezhov]

All slaughterhouses are horrible.  The lion strangling the antelope is horrible. The white shark eviscerating the baby seal is horrible. The wasp larvae eating its host from the inside out is horrible. Getting blowed up by an IED is horrible. 

 

Life can be horrible, but thats life. 

[actonion]

34 minutes ago, Lizard2010 said:

This is Thailand

NO checking on anything

No checking in, and out, of the slaughterhouse.....

[Skallywag]

2 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Life can be horrible, but thats life. 

Or in this case death.  

I love bacon

Peace ✌️

[gargamon]

I just love larb moo, Bacon, pork chops...

[spiekerjozef]

It's a pig, it's gonna end up in your stomach.

What's the problem?

Where do you think that nice sealed piece of tenderloin you see in the supermarket comes from?

I'm a big fan of displaying the slaughter of the animal on full display behind a glass wall just behind the meat section of the supermarket.

See how many people buy a piece of meat then?

[richard_smith237]

12 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

All slaughterhouses are horrible.  The lion strangling the antelope is horrible. The white shark eviscerating the baby seal is horrible. The wasp larvae eating its host from the inside out is horrible. Getting blowed up by an IED is horrible. 

 

Life can be horrible, but thats life. 

 

Agreed, life is horrible, but with the exception of the IED all your examples are of animals without concept of consciousness or conscience. We on the other hand (humanity) are aware of ourselves, pain and pain which we inflict on others, in this case unnecessarily - The slaughter of these animals could be made far more humane, i.e. less painful and stressful for the animals, it wouldn’t hurt or harm us to do so. 

 

Life can be horrible, but that’s not our life, we don’t need to be.

 

 

[ezzra]

It's all good, all sins washes well at the temple, bit of praying, alms to monks and merit making and all is good as new for more senseless slaughterer of animals... for some, cycle of life...

[PatOngo]

55 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

I like meat, I enjoy eating it, I consider it an essential part of my diet, I like beer and wine too and it could be argued I can do without those as they are not essential parts of my diet. With that said, I would like to enjoy meat without the associated cruelty towards these animals. 

Wait till you witness defenseless grapes getting mercilessly stomped by  aggressive bare feet in an escape proof barrel! Horrific!

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

I like meat, I enjoy eating it, I consider it an essential part of my diet, I like beer and wine too and it could be argued I can do without those as they are not essential parts of my diet. With that said, I would like to enjoy meat without the associated cruelty towards these animals. 

Wait till you witness defenseless grapes getting mercilessly stomped by  aggressive bare feet in an escape proof barrel! Horrific!

The sight of Barley being harvested was a particularly harrowing experience...  I had to go and hug a tree just to get over myself. 

 

 

The same still applies though - there is no need for this level of barbarity, animals can be slaughtered more humanely. 

Edited February 18, 2020 by richard_smith237

[Don Mega]

Mmmmm delicious bacon.

[Don Mega]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

The sight of Barley being harvested was a particularly harrowing experience...  I had to go and hug a tree just to get over myself. 

 

 

The same still applies though - there is no need for this level of barbarity, animals can be slaughtered more humanely. 

But their flesh is juicer if it has died in pain.

[sammieuk1]

No rest for beleaqured Thailand with the Sun now on its case????

[Creasy]

How hard would it be to put the animal down humanely ?

 

3rd world barbarians clubbing it to death

[zydeco]

Bwana McArthur has a point. She has revealed a cruel and a detestable way to carry on things. But her self righteous posing won't help. Stanley, Livingstone, Speke, Baker, and even Burton opposed slavery but realized they had to make some accommodations, at least at the beginning, with the Arab slave traders to advance towards their final goal. People used to know how to work to achieve moral aims. Now they just use it as an issue to pound the heads of their adversaries.

[Misterwhisper]

36 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Wait till you witness defenseless grapes getting mercilessly stomped by  aggressive bare feet in an escape proof barrel! Horrific!

Indeed. And I don't even want to talk about their ear-splitting, horrible screams.

[canthai55]

53 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 all your examples are of animals without concept of consciousness or conscience.

Then please explain - if animals are not sentient beings - how an elephant can remember decades later someone - human - who harmed it ? Or did it good ?

 

[holy cow cm]

1 hour ago, Lizard2010 said:

This is Thailand

NO checking on anything

Wrong! They check on us foreigners all the time.

[Tayaout]

If you want to buy pigs that is higher quality then check: https://www.sloanes.co.th/

Also available at https://paleorobbie.com

Edited February 18, 2020 by Tayaout

[Benmart]

As horrible as this is, what is more horrible is the daily slaughter on Thai roads. 

[Emdog]

"What we need are more humane killers" line that stuck with me over the years from film "How I Won the War".

Shall we also discuss kosher and halal methods of killing animals? Didn't Denmark ban that a few years ago?

[jak2002003]

2 hours ago, Creasy said:

How hard would it be to put the animal down humanely ?

 

3rd world barbarians clubbing it to death

Suggest you go watch a few You Tube videos of how animals are treated and slaughtered in UK or American / 1st work countries.  Not than different really.

 

 

[spidermike007]

One reason I do not eat pork, lamb or beef, is that I do not want to consume anything I would not be willing to kill myself. And those are three animals I would not be comfortable slaughtering. You can make many arguments about the humanity of the methods, in which you take an animals life. But, you are responsible for that life being taken, by consuming their flesh. It is really that simple. 

[metempsychotic]

3 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

It's a pig, it's gonna end up in your stomach.

What's the problem?

Where do you think that nice sealed piece of tenderloin you see in the supermarket comes from?

I'm a big fan of displaying the slaughter of the animal on full display behind a glass wall just behind the meat section of the supermarket.

See how many people buy a piece of meat then?

I would, I understand things must die for me to eat them. 

 

There is a more humane manner in which it could happen, and I would prefer that, but its not going to stop me.

 

That said I predominately eat chicken, but the horror there is more how it is raised than how it is brought to market, ie slaughtered.

[metempsychotic]

2 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Then please explain - if animals are not sentient beings - how an elephant can remember decades later someone - human - who harmed it ? Or did it good ?

 

My, those looked like pigs to me. Thanks for clearing things up.