Post by xpurestxfeelingx on Feb 4, 2004 18:57:05 GMT -5
i know that this isnt a poem, but i had to put it somewhere, and since only mature people are allowed in here, i chose this board. please take the time to read this.
my question is: why do people not care about animal cruelty and suffering? dont they realize that animals have feeling too? they feel pain and fear just as we do. here is some evidence from peta.org:
my question is: why do people not care about animal cruelty and suffering? dont they realize that animals have feeling too? they feel pain and fear just as we do. here is some evidence from peta.org:
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.
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.
Davis, Calif. — A rabbit was taken from a cage, decapitated, mutilated, and left in a school garden during a vandalism spree at Davis High School on the weekend of Saturday, January 24. Cruelty to animals is a felony in California, but police have yet to make any arrests in connection with the rabbit’s killing.
On today’s factory farms, sows are no longer allowed to be the good mothers that nature intended. Instead, they are treated as inanimate "meat machines," squeezed into narrow metal stalls barely larger than their own bodies, and kept constantly pregnant or nursing. Immobilized, the mother pigs are unable even to nuzzle their piglets. Pigs’ tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and male pigs are castrated—all without painkillers. At the end of their miserable lives, they are trucked to the slaughterhouse, hung upside-down, and bled to death, often, according to slaughterhouse workers and U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspectors, while still conscious and screaming.
(about animal testing) Videotape footage of a kitten convulsing after being doused with a chemical, a rabbit whose tender skin had been eaten away by a corrosive substance, rats in death throes after huge amounts of soaps were pumped into their stomachs...
(about animal products in cosmetics)
Remember, animal ingredients are used not because they are better than vegetable-derived or synthetic ingredients, but rather because they are generally cheaper. Today’s slaughterhouses must dispose of the byproducts of the slaughter of billions of animals every year and have found an easy and profitable solution in selling them to food and cosmetics manufacturers.
Rendering plants process the bodies of millions of tons of dead animals every year, transforming decaying flesh and bones into profitable animal ingredients. The primary source of rendered animals is slaughterhouses, which provide the “inedible” parts of all animals killed for food. The bodies of dogs and cats who are euthanized in animal shelters wind up at rendering plants, too. One small plant in Quebec renders 10 tons of dogs and cats a week, a sobering reminder of the horrible dog and cat overpopulation problem with which shelters must cope.
Remember, animal ingredients are used not because they are better than vegetable-derived or synthetic ingredients, but rather because they are generally cheaper. Today’s slaughterhouses must dispose of the byproducts of the slaughter of billions of animals every year and have found an easy and profitable solution in selling them to food and cosmetics manufacturers.
Rendering plants process the bodies of millions of tons of dead animals every year, transforming decaying flesh and bones into profitable animal ingredients. The primary source of rendered animals is slaughterhouses, which provide the “inedible” parts of all animals killed for food. The bodies of dogs and cats who are euthanized in animal shelters wind up at rendering plants, too. One small plant in Quebec renders 10 tons of dogs and cats a week, a sobering reminder of the horrible dog and cat overpopulation problem with which shelters must cope.