Heifer International: ‘Animal-Friendly’ Organization Advocates for the Meat Industry
Many of the goats provided by the program as well as their offspring are added to others already kept by farmers and are used for breeding. Many goats in the area end up at slaughterhouses.
PETA: ‘Heifer International sells goats and other animals online as gifts to marginalized communities around the globe. The pictures on the organization’s website make it seem as if the animals become treasured members of human families, but… in Rajasthan (India), Heifer International is an advocate for the meat industry. Many of the goats provided by the program as well as their offspring are added to others already kept by farmers and are used for breeding. Many goats in the area end up at slaughterhouses…
Goats in Rajasthan were found suffering from conditions including an infected udder, a fractured limb, and a maggot-filled wound—none of which were properly treated. Goats were kept in crowded pens or tied up with ropes so short that they could hardly move. Some villagers forced sticks into baby goats’ mouths to prevent them from drinking their mothers’ milk, which is taken away for human consumption, and male goats were pinned down and castrated without the use of anesthesia…
Villagers, including those with goats from Heifer International, work through a farmer producer organization to sell their animals for slaughter. Some end up at local meat shops, many of which are unlicensed. The animals often face long-distance transport in a mostly unregulated slaughter trade to places where they will be butchered. At slaughterhouses and roadside butcher shops, animals stand on blood-drenched floors covered with entrails watching and waiting in fear as others are killed directly in front of them. The slaughterers don’t stun them before killing them — even though the law requires it’. SOURCE…
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