FOR OUR ANIMALS

Farmed animals (including poultry and dairy) lead lives of suffering, from birth to death

There is no such thing as a humane death for the meat we eat, fish gasp for water and die slow and painful deaths, cows and pigs are electrocuted, butchered and often dismembered while still struggling, and chickens scalded in boiling water even before their last breath

Another reason is for animal welfare.

Slaughter houses

The conditions on factory farms are far removed from the happy farmyard scenes you see portrayed on poulty / meat / egg ads or farm information. Modern factory units exist to produce meat and dairy products as quickly and cheaply as possible, and the animals are given the bare minimum needed to survive. Crammed into stinking sheds, they will never roam freely, nor will they ever breathe fresh air or see natural daylight. Many will die of infections/trauma and stress before they even leave the farm, victims of the terrible conditions in which they live; and for the rest, a terrifying and bloody slaughterhouse death awaits.

Dairy production – cow treatment

Many people are not aware that in order to keep producing milk for humans, dairy cows have to become pregnant and have calves. This is done forcibly through artificial insemination. The calves are forcefully taken away from their grieving mothers, if males to be slaughtered as veal and females fated to lead the same sad lives as their mothers. Once her milk runs dry, mom too is slaughtered for beef.

Egg industry - free range/male chicks

Hens lead an existence of pain and suffering throughout their shortened lives. They are force-fed (industrial concoctions of high-fat meal, antibiotics, and hormones), live in cages too small for them to even turn around in, and never see daylight or step on real grass in their terrifyingly short lives.

There is a common misconception that free-range eggs involve hens roaming outside, happy and free. Yet the reality is that free-range hens are actually kept in vast sheds with potentially thousands of other birds, few of which ever see daylight.  

Free range often just means -  ‘cage-free’