The cruelties of the flesh traffic / by Josiah Oldfield.

  • Josiah Oldfield
Date:
[1910?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cruelties of the flesh traffic / by Josiah Oldfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on a Friday or Saturday, sold in the Liverpool Cattle Market on Monday, and slaughtered and flayed the same night. ‘*Again, Mr. Nelson, an extensive cattle salesman in Glasgow, declared that he had ‘hundreds and hundreds of times’ himself seen, when the cattle were partially flayed, the hides fall right off them owing to the bruises, and had often wondered how cattle could live and travel and stand the market in the condition which was revealed when the hide was taken off. As to broken ribs, Mr. Cassidy, an Irish dealer who passed through his hands over 6,000 cattle per annum, put the number of cases of broken ribs at between 100 and 150, and told the Committee that cut of one lot of twenty fat cattle which he had sold, the purchaser complained that he found ten of them with the ribs broken.” ook Spots San Just a peep into the world of patient The endurance and pain which we are inflict- Journey = ing on the animal world, by depriving enerarda ing on the animal world, by depriving Death. them of exercise, in order to fatten them, and then driving them long weary miles to market and to death. Just a thought of those terrible journeys, when their exhaustion and hopeless weariness is no longer of any market importance, for they are so soon to die. If weturn to the same Report of the Commission to which I have already alluded, we find it stated that :— ‘*A second cause in the deterioration in value of Irish cattle in transit has been stated to be want of water, fatigue on the journey from the breeders to the British market, and want of sufficient ventilation when To
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