Help save Lambs from Slaughter

  • by: PETA
  • recipient: President Barack Obama

In New Zealand, there are 6,024 lambs slaughtered every day. By the end of the year, there will be 2,192,736 slaughtered in just New Zealand. alone.

Animal rights' group PETA has praised Gordon Ramsay for showing scenes of lambs being slaughtered to millions of viewers on his TV show.



PETA claims the images of two lambs being stunned with 200 volts of electricity and then being hung up and having their throats cut have turned a number of viewers vegetarian.



Viewers could clearly see blood gush from the open wound and then the immediate aftermath as each lamb still twitched - although they were both said to be dead and that was apparently the result of nerves still acting in their bodies.



PETA said that a number of people - put off by the slaughter - had called the charity since Tuesday night to request vegetarian starter packs.



A spokesman said: "Ramsay's F-Word depicted a grossly sanitised version of the horrors routinely faced by millions of lambs every year before they reach the dinner plate.



"But the death of these animals have not been completely in vain since the distressing viewing will have turned many compassionate people vegetarian."



Almost four million people watched Channel 4's F-Word as the foul-mouthed chef helped hold the lambs as a slaughterman pressed electric tongs to either side of their head.



Ramsay was also shown carving the removed skull of each lamb, and then cutting out their brains which he said he had promised to give to fellow chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.



During the slaughter process Ramsay said: "The last thing on my mind now is f*****g shepherd's pie.



Channel 4 had broadcast a warning before the final part of The F-Word show, saying: "There will be scenes of animal slaughter which some viewers may find offensive." One of the lambs, called Gavin, was spared at the last minute after he became ill with pneumonia and had to be given antibiotics which meant he could not be slaughtered for another month.



It meant that none of the show's original three lambs got to the slaughterhouse.



One died at birth and another - named after Welsh singer Charlotte Church - was killed earlier this month as it grazed in the grounds of David and Victoria Beckham's 17-acre Hertfordshire home.



Earlier in the programme Ramsay had weighed the 17-week-old lambs to make sure they were over the weight of 60kg.



His four children were involved in helping him and had been throughout the whole time they were at their home.



He loaded them into a trailer and then drove them, with his wife, to the slaughterhouse.



The slaughterman, known only as Mark, said there was a maximum time of 20 seconds between each lamb being stunned and then having its throat cut. After that each lamb was shown having its wool and skin removed, which Ramsay helped to do, and then their insides were removed.



Ramsay even held one of their livers, commenting on how warm it still was. He said: "It's hard to believe they were only just alive a few minutes ago." At the end of the show Ramsay said viewers would be able to watch next week as the lamb meat is served in a shepherd's pie. So after hearing this story, do you still belive in the slaughtery of ANY animal(including the lamb/sheep)? Please sighn this petition!





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Please President Obama,
Help me and others stop the slaughtery of Lambs and Sheep! They need all the help they can get. If you look at this picture and read this paragraph I wrote, maybe you will agree and help me help the lambs and sheep!
Thank You,
Kasandra Bonsor
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