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Do you feel each one of us has the responsibility to stop the torture and murder of innocent animals by boycotting the animal slaughter houses industry? Please, feel free to share your anger about the cruelty involved in this bloody business and to share ideas and information that may educate people that still don't understand the connection between meat and animal cruelty.
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TOPIC: “Food” Animals and Human Brutes
“Food” Animals and Human Brutes 1 year, 3 months ago #39
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 By Christian Raymond "The torture endured by farmed animals from birth... to slaughter in our industrialized and mechanized processing systems is unimaginably horrible, and there is no significant difference between free-range, cage-free, and "certified humane" versus the traditional industrial methods, despite the misleading claims of large welfare orginization (incorrectly referred to by the media and themselves as "animal rights organizations - If you are born a chicken in the most “humane” environment, the best thing that might happen to you is that you are gassed or tossed alive in to a wood-chipper as a baby chick, so you don’t have to experience a life of hell as a cage-free or “certified humane” egg chicken (a “layer”) or flesh chicken (a “broiler”) - Make no mistake; both the old methods and the new, so-called “humane” methods rely on intensive confinement with filthy conditions, diseases, no individual attention, and no veterinary care to speak of - One thing is obvious: It is literally impossible to raise and slaughter hundreds of thousands, millions, or billions of nonhumans without industrial methods - What is less obvious, but nevertheless true, is that “humane” labels are little more than a marketing ploy to ease the growing public sensitivity to the (unavoidable) reality of animal agriculture’s cruelty - Further, transportation and slaughter itself is extremely cruel, with slaughterhouse workers intentionally torturing animals, especially chickens, and animals often inadvertently being boiled or ripped apart alive (such cruelty is common knowledge among welfare advocates and has been documented in the Washington Post [ 'They die piece by piece] and in various films and documentaries of slaughterhouse conditions) -When we do these things to a dog or cat, we are charged with a felony; when we do these while marketing unnecessary food preferences, we get paid a wage for it - Even if it were possible (and it’s not possible) to heavily police transportation and slaughter so that the cruelty was significantly reduced, it is still wrong to treat sentient beings with a crucial interest in their life and its quality as a means to an end - We need not wonder who the brutes are; a mirror will tell us (Graphic slaughterhouse footage) Animal agriculture, on its modern scale of production, is an environmental disaster, with “cattle” and hog waste polluting groundwater, rivers, and streams and killing millions of fish throughout the country; and flatulence contributing significant quantities of carbon and other pollutants into the air i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr183/dannyReingold5/slide985.jpg “Food” animals, particularly “cattle” and pigs, are reverse protein factories, consuming up to 10 times more protein in their short lives than they provide after they are slaughtered for food - A vast majority of the land used for growing plant food is to feed animals who will use up to 90% of that protein in their daily living, returning relatively very little after slaughter The only way to achieve more pollution and greater inefficiency in food production is to breed and raise more nonhumans for food i482.photobucket.com/albums/rr183/dannyR...old5/slide1028-1.jpg The Solution to Animal Agriculture Now, early in the 21st century, more and more mainstream dieticians and health professionals are telling us that balanced vegan diets are optimal for our health - (For information about vegan nutrition, see the link on this blog) - There are now vegan alternatives to most animal-based ingredients and expanded vegan options, making gourmet vegan entrees and desserts as delightful to the palate as non-vegan versions ever were, and much healthier too (see the vegan menus links in this blog) - Dieticians are also telling us that traditional animal-based diets, especially in the quantities we consume them, are literally killing us with heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, strokes, and cancer - For clothing, there are now synthetic materials, such as nylon, synthetic fleece, faux “leather”, faux “suede”, and faux “fur”, which easily replace, and are better than, the animal alternatives - The solution is to go vegan Eco Eating brook.com/veg/ Compassionate Cooks www.compassionatecooks.com/ Order Free Vegan Starter Kit www.mercyforanimals.org/vegan-starter-kit.aspx www.veganoutreach.org/guide/free_guide.html Unpopular Vegan Essays unpopularveganessays.blogspot.com/ |
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