Famed rock musician and iconic horror movie director Rob Zombie has partnered with Compassion Over Killing (COK) to speak out against the USDA’s high-speed animal slaughter programs, stating, “Let’s keep the screams on-stage and on-screen. USDA: end the high-speed horrors!”
Zombie, well known for directing gore-fest movies such as The House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, is a vegan, and his passionate plea is circulating via targeted cell phone ads around the USDA headquarters in Washington DC.
Earlier this year, the USDA proposed an increase in line speeds at pig slaughterhouses — a move that has been strongly opposed by animal advocates across the nation, including LFT.
On top of this house of horrors program for pigs, the USDA is now making allowances for increased slaughter line speeds in chicken plants, increasing the number of birds killed from the current — already unmanageable — rate of two birds a second to a mindblowing 175 birds every minute.
Even current line speeds encourage careless practices, endangering human health and compromising animal welfare as workers rush to keep up with these unmanageable requirements.
This recent decision by the USDA to grant waivers to chicken slaughterhouses that want to increase their killing speeds was made without any call for public comment, even though 100,000 people contacted them about their concerns last year.
Undercover investigations in the last few years have revealed the gut-wrenching conditions suffered by both pigs and chickens in slaughterhouses, documenting abuse, torture and completely inhumane practices — which will only get worse as line speeds increase.
“While the USDA frames high-speed slaughter as ‘modernization’ of the meat industry, you’d have to be a zombie to miss that it’s a horrifying step backwards endangering animals, workers, and consumers,” said Laura Cascada, director of corporate outreach for COK.
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The best way to go is vegetarian or vegan to ensure no more slaughterhouse horror. I think by humans eating meat we become, or more likely desensitized to animal suffering. Also it would be a lot more beneficial to the environment.
STOP this horror!!
Animals won’t be killed if no humans eat them. Go vegetarian/vegan. I did 28 yrs ago. NO REGRETS.
All abuse of animals can not be justified for any reason! Strict laws must be enforced with appropriate punishment for exploiters and abusers!!
Stop cruelty of high Speed slaughter! The cruelty of the killing is disgusting! Show some humanity. The FDA is a cover for horrific cruelty. The excuses for humans in the FDA are sell outs for greed.
We must stop the high speed kill of animals as well as the cruelty they have to suffer. People in this world must start being compassionate with animals.
If we leave meat off our plates, our health will improve and fewer animals will suffer! Even Tyson sees the future and is investing in Beyond Meat, a non-meat and successful company! It is just a matter of time!!
Please contact the USDA and let them know that this is not acceptable. Please email them, call them, flood them with requests to stop allowing this to happen! If enough people contact them maybe they will rethink their position. Tell all your friends to also do this. Even meat eaters might have a hard time with the horrific animal abuse!
Cruelty needs to STOP!
Every week there is more and more reason to believe that USDA stands for United States Department of Assholes!! USDA, YOU’RE AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE to society. There is much more to life than profiting from extreme violent treatment of the food industry’s victims!! And since NOBODY (!) NOOOOBOODY (!) NEEDS TO CONSUME THE BODIES OF FOOD INDUSTRY VICTIMS, TO SURVIVE OR TO BE HEALTHY, more extreme violence to the victims should be a CRIME!!
Hell on Earth for Animals the World Over! Our populations are growing and the demand is expanding. We must education center ntinually a New Dawn for our fragile planet which has no time for recovery from us.
I don’t understand why they are trying to speed up this “kill rate” I the slaughter houses. What is going on is already criminal and abusive. The people wanting to speed up the kill rate are criminals and are heartless. What is going on in these slaughter houses needs to be televised so people will see the “price” of their food. This is all so wrong.
You have a great idea where people should see how these animals are processed for their consumption. I am sure they will.not do this as people are turned off seeing the truth.
Ba vegan. . . . . . Respect our animal friends.
Please stop this brutal practice. It’s already bad enough.
Bravo for speaking out against these high-speed machines, they are horrific!
Something like this happened where my younger sister lived. The lady and her little boy were taking trash to the dumpster and they could hear the puppies and the Woman climbed in the dumpster risking her own safety to find the puppies. They were in a plastic bag and some had passed away. I can’t remember if more than one was alive or not but at least one was alive and she took them home to care for them and it or them lived a few weeks and died. The lady never reported it and so many cases never get reported. The ones we see here are just the tip of the iceberg.
Slaughter of innocent animals need to be stopped until a total cruelty free method can be found.
It’s heartbreaking that animals are tortured to death so people can eat CHEAP meat.
If you must eat meat you must be prepared to pay enough so that the animals that you eat last moments are pain and fear free.
Try not eating meat you don’t need too.
I have stopped eating meat nearly 100%. I may still eat it when offered when I go out visiting. I have suddenly come across tasty substitutes availability from the supermarket. Also home made recipes for meat substitutes are available. In New Zealand where I live it is harder because of being a agriculturally based economy. The last Government was a pro farming and business administration. The farming economy has also shifted to more cattle than sheep being more lucrative. I was totally put of beef because of a recent disease that was treated very lightly. I hope the new government with the greens coalition can shift the economy away from relying on meat, into green technology and more humane farming where people may feel an incentive to be meat free.
This high speed slaughter is a horrific step backwards! The consequences of an accident are unthinkable and the whole idea is subhuman and smacks of disgusting greed!
being an older and I guess somewhat out of touch person I have never heard of Rob Zombie but I will say that I appreciate his voice and outrage at what animals endure. Keep up the screaming , Rob! Animals should never suffer for the purpose of people.
DISGUSTING INHUMANE IDIOTS..PLEASE STOP THIS INSANITY AND TORTURE. YOU ARE GOING TO KILL THEM ANYWAY AT LEAST DO IT HUMANELY.
Come on you Celebs speak up for animals, you know you want to . Rob did so can you.
Stop eating meat, simple. Not good for you and horrible for poor animals in food chain. No demand,, no slaughter. Shut down slaughter house. If you eat meat you’re as bad as factory farm owners..
Thanks Rob 4 speaking up for the animals. We need more people in the Entertainment business to come forward AGAINST ALL ANIMAL CRUELTY. We need this UNIMAGINABLE, UNSPEAKABLE ANIMAL CRUELTY TO STOP IMMEDIATELY….. ANIMALS ARE SUFFERING H O R R I F I C PAIN FOR THE ALMIGHTY BUCK AT THE BARBARIC SLAUGHTER HOUSES….. all in the hands of mankind…..STOP IT! ••Heartless humans.
Everyone needs to contact the USDA by phone, facebook on their website, etc and FLOOD them with opposition to make sure this does NOT happen!!! Insidious!!
How much more cruelty can we cause to innocent animals
On top of this house of horrors program for pigs, the USDA is now making allowances for increased slaughter line speeds in chicken plants, increasing the number of birds killed from the current — already unmanageable — rate of two birds a second to a mindblowing 175 birds every minute.