Kittens Crushed at Toyota Plant *Warning Disturbing Images*

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PETA’s Domestic Animal Issues & Abuse Department has received documentation of what is alleged to have been a June 2, 2003, incident, during which Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK), employees deliberately caused the mutilation and death of two kittens whose location posed an inconvenience to production. We are told that the employees present—a maintenance team member and the maintenance team leader—were made aware that at least one kitten was trapped inside a trailer in the process of receiving heavy cargo. Employees are said to have refused outright to manually unload the trailer in order to spare the kitten. When the cargo was finally unloaded, two kittens had been mangled in the machinery.

http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=791

The following picture ruined my day. I can't tell you how bad seeing something like this makes me feel, but I have to get the info out there so that those of you that are in a position to help, may do so. Please click the PETA link and read the whole story and help out if you can.

This image is one of three provided by PETA. One is all you need to see.

This is inexcusable. Anyone who can do, can tolerate this type of gratuitious suffering is SICK.

I wish there were a way for us to throw that maintenance team into that trailer...

Remember the movie Powder... the deer scene...? I wish I had that power!

I do not understand how any human can be so cruel to a helpless animal.

but this is completely disgusting....and I thought the brouhaha in the House was the shittiest thing happening today. Cruelty charges should be filed against those two workers and they should be fired. Period. Who the hell wants to work next to anyone with such a disregard for life?
I'm gonna hug my critters a little extra this evening when I get home.....

In one scene Powder is on a camping trip with the boys from the home where the state has placed him. While out walking in the woods, Powder hears a shot and goes to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene he finds a group of boys and the local deputy standing around a deer lying on the ground. The deputy had come on the trip along with the sheriff to supervise the outing, and in the meantime decided to do a little hunting. Powder is enraged and drops down beside the animal touching his neck. At the same time the deputy grabs his hand to lift the boy up. By doing this Powder transmits the dying feelings of the animal through himself to the deputy. The deputy starts crying uncontrollably because he can feel the pain and the fright of what dying is like for this beautiful creature. ((The deputy is never the same afterwards because he can't shake that feeling of fear... ))

http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6433

Powder

In life there often are those who do not fit in with the norms of society. Such ways of their existance could be a testament to their uniqness or rather to the solitude of their existances. In Powder the existance of one human being is both a testatment to uniqueness as well as the quiets of solitude.
Covered in white, in albinoish tint, teased by all, there exists one who can share understanding and power with the world. He shows a hunter the pain he inflicts on a deer by touching the deer and then having the hunter touch him. Electrical powers, the ability to move spoons, such are showcases of power, that this being seeks to minimize. In one scene all the forks and spoons from a lunch room are stuck together as if by magic.

At the end of the movie this white being clad in mystique, not understood, and always alone, looks to the sky. He then vanishes like a streak of energy, spread everywhere in the world, but yet no where. The movie speaks to those who are different; those who seek what others will not ever wish to find. Understanding, enlightenment, even oneness with the universe, to some these are scary things. To powder they are the ways of his world.


http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/powder.htm

This is very sad a person would choose to stand by and let something like this occur...

how cruel some people can be.

Now hurry up and leave work so we can go home, it's been a long day.

It's not the job of the workmen to save the world from loose kittens. How the heck did the little critters get in their?