To see or not See that is the Question

   Have you heard about the dog torture this week? in Texas. There is apparently a $35,000 reward for the culprit. First of all any kind of torture to an animal is inhumane. Two, why do most people turn the blind eye to the rest of the animals in this country who suffer inhumane cruelty on a daily basis. Three, some people get all sentimental when day in and day out they consume animals for hunger pains? I mean it is all so incomprehensible when you think about it, boggles the mind when narrow minds cannot or do not want to view and understand the bigger picture at large. I'm not attempting to sound insensitive to the abuse of the pup but C'mon, where are the penalties for all those Slaughter house aficionados? Now that's what you call turning the blind eye. Reporters now a days evidently obscure their true journalism skills when they lack the ability to deeply investigate the issue of the topic they chose to write about. The commercialization of the news in the ninetieth century is what brought about this huge shift in how the public view the news. It becomes more about sentimentalism than Factual investigation on a problem, that affects the society as a whole at large. One animal, in this case a Dog, gets mentioned in an abuse and thousands react. A Human later takes a walk down their supermarket isle and becomes utterly oblivious to the parceled cadavers of which lie in front of them, in  plastic packages. Let's not forget that 50% of the store or more is composed of dead animals with two or four legs, just like the poor little dog. 

 Okay so the point is, why care? well if you care about a dog or a cat, and/ or any kind of domestic animal, Why Not? It is wrong to forget how much pain farmed animals endure just to satisfy uncontrolled tongue, of the flesh a devours. There are tones of examples on how horrible and terrifying slaughter houses conduct their massacres all in the name for vainglorious profit. The dog, named Hope, mentioned in the article has received deep slashes  by his abuser and a swollen tongue due to dehydration from his mouth being taped shut yet he's due to a complete recovery.  So what about all those animals who don't make it? the way  baby chicks, who  only live for a few days before the males, because they are of no use to the chicken egg industry, get thrown onto a converter belt and are mutilated along the way. Beaks cut of  with out the use of anesthetics and  then sent right off into a grinder alive. Chopped up alive and tossed into a bag while some still alive die out of asphyxiation. Or what about that Hen who cannot lay any eggs anymore get's plucked alive by machinery, and boiled alive.

 Oh wait! lets not forget the Cow how much pain they endure. They get shock treatments, Kicked, Battered, Amputated, Mutilated, Slashed, Burned, Broken limbs and straight out tortured to the very last breath. They are hung alive and their troughs  slit left to bleed to death as they spasm and get into convulsions as they watch their blood taint the walls and the ground. If that's not sickening and does not bring one to the point of understanding of how abusive the meat industries are I don't know what will. I presume they'll continue being conditioned, thinking within the box, and every now and then have a slight sentiment for an animal which might spur up some compassion in they're otherwise every day to day disconnected life style. Not questioning or looking at the whole picture, even though it lays right in front of their eyes.  Instead they'll get sentiments for this dog name Hope, in the hopes that they won't have to physically witness such an event. And instead continue feeding the meat and egg industry and purchase their canned animal food, which is remnants of all the in consumable  meat products for human consumption, for their newly rescued pet. Ah! the Irony  

Commentary written by: Diane Foley

Reference to the article by Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News :

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/hope-tortured-texas-dog-reward-193214803.html