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Veal Purveyors: Institutionalized Barbarism; Until Now

  • Spence Cooper
  • May 17, 2010

In “To Serve Man”, an episode from the television series The Twilight Zone, a race of highly-advanced aliens land on Earth and offer solutions to the interminable sufferings of humanity: hunger, disease and continuous warfare.

After the Kanamits — as the extraterrestrials are called — convince even the most disbelieving humans, people begin volunteering for trips to the Kanamit’s home planet — a paradise they are told. All is well until a code-breaker begins to translate one of the Kanamit’s books, “To Serve Man”.

The code-breaker tries to warn people boarding the ship that the book “To Serve Man” is really a cookbook and all the aliens’ contributions to solve man’s problems were merely meant to fatten humans up before they’re shipped to a slaughterhouse.

In the last scene, Michael Chambers speaks to the television camera as he heads to his grisly destination aboard the alien spaceship. “How about you? You still on Earth, or on the ship with me? Really doesn’t make very much difference, because sooner or later, we’ll all of us be on the menu…all of us.”

It’s a strange arrangement we Earthlings share — forced to devour the flesh of our fellow creatures in order to stay alive. One can only hope that if such a system were to extend beyond our solar system, our alien predators would lead us to a humane slaughter — unlike the deplorable cruelty we humans inflict on animals before we fatten them up for slaughter on planet Earth.

In the dairy business, female calves are either slaughtered or added to dairy herds, but many male calves are separated from their mothers just a few hours after birth, only to be neck chained in tiny dark stalls and raised for veal. They are never allowed to roam freely, or even see the light of day. These calves cannot lie down, cannot turn in any direction, and are restricted from even the slightest movement so they don’t develop muscle tissue — contractile cells would compromise veal calf tenderness.

As author John Robbins notes, “The veal calf would actually have more space if, instead of chaining him in such a stall, you stuffed him into the trunk of a subcompact car and kept him there for his entire life.”

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