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Date Posted: 17:49:05 06/27/04 Sun
In reply to:
Critical Mind
's message, "Food...animal cruelty, GM food, Eating healthly" on 17:47:50 06/27/04 Sun
Mellanie Hewllit
27 June 2004
Singapore Review
Few species in this world have as blatant a disregard for sentient
life as the homosapien.
Man is perhaps one of the few creatures in the mortal world who kills
for the hedonistic pleasure of killing. Even when killing is done for
the sake of consumption, few animals in the animal kingdom perform
this act as cruelly as MAN himself.
It is a stange oxymoron that the only "civilised" species in the animal kingdom
also happens to be the same one who derives joy directly from the blatant act
of taking the life of anoher being.
Below are some video links which we hope will instill a paradigm shift in
humanity:
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video==rue-mcclanahan-pig-farm
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video==pigfarminv
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video==Turkey-farms
More than 25 billion animals are killed for food every year in the
United States. This video shows the lives and deaths of chickens,
cows, and pigs and makes a poignant case for vegetarianism and humane
legislation. Please show this video to your friends, neighbors,
classmates, and coworkers, as well as on your local cable and public
access television stations.
Pigs, cows, and chickens are individuals with feelings—they can feel
love, happiness, loneliness, and fear, just as dogs, cats, and people
do.
The purpose of factory farms is to produce the most meat, milk, and
eggs using the least amount of space, time, and money. The animals
suffer the consequences of these shortcuts. They are never allowed to
do anything that is natural to them—they are never able to feel the
grass beneath their feet, the sun on their faces, or fresh air.
They endure mutilation—chicks have their beaks burned off, cows and
pigs are castrated without anesthesia, cows are dehorned and branded,
and the list goes on—all without any painkillers. Some animals, such
as veal calves, are kept in lonely isolation, while others, such as
chickens, are crowded so closely together that they can barely move.
Factory farmers restrict animals' movement, not only to save space,
but also so that all their energy goes toward producing flesh, eggs,
or milk for human consumption. They spend their lives confined to
concrete stalls and metal cages, terrified and suffering in such
unnatural conditions.
Their fear and pain end only after they have been driven, without
food or water and often in extreme weather, to the mechanized murder
of today's slaughterhouse, where millions each year are skinned and
dismembered while still conscious.
The best thing you can do for animals, as this video makes clear, is
to go vegan. For more on what you can do, click here.
http://www.meetyourmeat.com/
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