Letter: ‘Rescued’ cattle still going to slaughterhouse

Tuesday, April 7, 1998 | 11:08 a.m.

The way animals are treated is a shame.

The article called it a "massive rescue." Rescue? How many "rescued" cows still went to the slaughterhouse? Dead ones to the butcher? I don't call that a rescue.

It said that the "humane" thing to do was to "put down" the injured ones. What about the noninjured? They won't be "put down" when they reach their destination? Wouldn't that then be "inhumane" or would that then be "dinner"?

Nowhere in that article did it say the reason for those cows to be on the truck. Is it too much to have a situation raising compassion and yet reminding everyone that millions of animals are transported like this on a regular basis, to slaughterhouses, so that people may selfishly eat "hamburgers," "steaks," veal," etc.

I overhead numerous individuals talk in ignorance about how sad it was for the cows, as if they were in that truck going to a decent place. Compassion for animals dying on the highway, but not when they die in the slaughterhouses?

I am glad to say that I don't have blood on my hands from this daily carnage.

Hopefully, more and more people will educate themselves and see their food for what it really is, and learn the whole process of how it gets to them, and not for what multimillion-dollar advertising budgets make it out to be.

Jacqueline Bodnar