"MEAT IS MURDER" is a misconstructed way to express a very serious opinion about an extremely serious issue. Due to the generalized ignorance of 90% of modernized society about what they place in their mouths and swallow, such issues need to be constantly and inexhaustibly discussed. If you're living in a country not considered "Third World", then what I'm going to tell you affects you in a major way. "Factory Farms" are where ALL the meat you consume originate from, not Old MacDonald's Farms, or Babe The Pig type farms. Factory Farms are the animal versions of WWII Concentration Camps; however, they are considered legal. Here, mass quantities of Beef Cows, or Veal Calves, or Dairy Cows, or Pigs, or Chickens, are amassed in tight, horrific, unsanitary, inhumane, filthy living conditions. 90% of all those animals are chronically sick. To remedy this, they are constantly being fed a variety of antibiotics, as well as growth hormones, paper products, cement, chicken manure, as well as(since we're on the topic of cannibalism) grounded up remains of diseased defunct animals of the same species which were found "unfit" for human consumption. (This is how Mad Cow's disease is contracted).When the animal's turn comes to be slaughtered, it is in such pathetic health, that most can't even walk, and are dragged inhumanely by ropes attached to trucks(in the case of cows and pigs) to the factory butcher. There, the meat is rapidly and NOT carefully inspected, eventhough evidence shows that most of the meat has medicine residues invisible to the naked eye still imbedded in it. Any cancers or tumors are simply removed, and the meat is packaged and shipped to your local supermarket(After additives and what not have been added to make the meat look appetizing), where it will be bought by you and served to your family at dinner that evening. (Ever wonder how Fast food chains can sell their meat sandwiches at such low prices?Even lower quality meat is used)
CONCLUSION:If you don't feel at all remorse for the animals being tortured everyday all around you, so that Mr.Fast Food's fat pockets can get fatter, then at least have the decency to refrain from feeding your own children and people you love unhealthy food. Meat of all kinds(White or Red) is known to cause clogged arteries, obesity, heart attacks, strokes, and a long list of other fatal or crippling symptoms.I know that eating meat is as common as breathing air for most people. That's just the way they've grown up. But if more and more people refrain from consuming the meat being offered to us on a daily basis, or simply cut down drastically, Factory Farms will start to diminish in numbers, and perhaps one day if needs be, the meat on your table may come from an actual Farm, not a Factory Farm.
All I've written today was a brief summary of actual FACTS, not news flashes I've ignorantly conjured up myself. To find out more, I urge you to please read the following books:
"Farm Animals:Husbandry,Behavior,and Veterinary Practice"by M.W.Fox
"Animal Machines"by R.Harrison
"Old MacDonald's Factory Farm"by C.D.Coats
"Diet For A New America"by J.Robbins
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