Animal suffering in the food industry ( I need quick facts & stats)?

Answer 1

www.peta.com
www.peta2.com
www.FishingHurts.com
www.GoVeg.com
www.JesusVeg.com
www.KFCCruelty.com
www.LettuceLadies.com
www.LobsterLib.com
www.MeetYourMeat.com
www.MilkSucks.com
www.VegCooking.com

Answer 2

That's a reasonable point. I have never thought the "fast food" idea behind animal slaughter was a good idea. But, here are two facts that I consider: 1. If left with the choice of eating a human being or a fattened cow, I would opt for the cow. 2. There are boundaries on the reality of the rights that animals have, largely due to the fact that many of them serve no other purpose to the ecosystem other than to be eaten as food.

Answer 3

Yes it is a tragedy that 180,000 animals die each day in the harvesting of vegetables. PETA won't mention that. I am a member of PETA. People Eating Tasty Animals. Gimme a cheeseburger and run it through the garden.

Answer 4

Ill tell you what is cruel is when vegetarians take ripe living vegetables and fruits from there mothers and then eat them in front of the trees in which they have just raped them from. They take beans and corn and rice and deprive them of water and dry them out and then boil them in water, or grind them to make "flour". Have you ever stopped to wonder just what is a bean, corn kernel, or grain of wheat or rice? well I'll tell you they are plant fetuses, yes the undeveloped plant in the fetus stage ripped from there mother plants and tortured and ground up to feed the so called PC crowed. How do we know that plants don't feel pain, if you tear them do they not bleed sap?
Vegans are plant murderers!

Answer 5

Check out PETA's website. Peta.org i think.

Broken beaks on chickens.
Hormones in cows to produce milk.
Cruel ways of killing animals (slowly and painfully).

Answer 6

You should absolutely visit the PETA website. They show videos of the torture animals endure including being boiled in oil alive, suffering broken bones and dehydration in transport. Animals from factories are stuffed in cages so small they cannot move, they are fed hormones that make them so obese they cannot walk.

Answer 7

Visit these websites and you will have more than enough:

♥ MYM Chickens http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

♥ MYM Cows http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_cows.asp

♥ MYM Fish http://www.fishinghurts.com/fishFarms.asp

♥ MYM Pigs http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_pigs.asp

♥ MYM Turkeys http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_turkeys.asp

♥ MYM Ducks and Geese http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_ducks.asp

♥ What is gelatin? http://www.askcarla.com/answers.asp?QuestionandanswerID=375

♥ More http://www.peta.org/mc/facts.asp

Answer 8

Here is tons and tons of information!

The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes of years past are now distant memories. On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds, wire cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems. These animals will never raise their families, root in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural to them. They won't even feel the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks bound for slaughter.

Animals on today's factory farms have no legal protection from cruelty that would be illegal if it were inflicted on dogs or cats: neglect, mutilation, genetic manipulation, and drug regimens that cause chronic pain and crippling, transport through all weather extremes, and gruesome and violent slaughter. Yet farmed animals are no less intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as companions.

The factory farming system of modern agriculture strives to maximize output while minimizing costs. Cows, calves, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other animals are kept in small cages, in jam-packed sheds, or on filthy feedlots, often with so little space that they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are deprived of exercise so that all their bodies' energy goes toward producing flesh, eggs, or milk for human consumption. The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by cramming animals into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals get sick and some die. Industry journal National Hog Farmer explains, "Crowding Pigs Pays," and egg-industry expert Bernard Rollins writes that "chickens are cheap; cages are expensive." They are fed drugs to fatten them faster and to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them, and they are genetically altered to grow faster or to produce much more milk or eggs than they would naturally. Many animals become crippled under their own weight and die within inches of water and food. While the suffering of all animals on factory farms is similar, each type of farmed animal faces different types of cruelty.

Around eight billion animals are killed for food every year in the U.S. alone -- a number greater than the entire human population of the planet. Each meat-eating American eats the equivalent of about 24 animals per year. What's worse, modern agricultural methods mean that animals are raised in cramped confinement operations instead of the pastures from childhood picture books -- a practice known as factory farming. Chickens are crammed into cages with no free space, and are debeaked to keep them from pecking each other to death. Animals are pumped full of various powerful drugs to kill diseases resulting from filthy living conditions, and to make them grow or produce faster than nature intended. When cows and chickens stop producing as much milk and eggs as the younger animals, they're unceremoniously slaughtered and made into low-grade meat (fast food and pet food). For some, vegetarianism and veganism are ways to refuse to participate in the commodification of animals.

Hope this helps.

Happy holidays!

Answer 9

Do you wear shoes? Are they real leather? Is every thing you own man-made synthetic? Be a vegeterian if you want, but please let us meat eaters be. By the way I live on a cattle ranch and when 2 bulls fight, and trust me they will, sometimes one ends up hurt. Do I let it suffer or can I shoot it as fast as possible so it doesn't suffer?

Answer 10

Gelatine is cows feet!!