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.
