Realize.

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.

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.

Now Think?
What Are You Doing?

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Animals
• Death
• MeatIsMurder
• Meat
• Murder
• Vegetarin
• Chickens
• Cows
• Duck
• Geese
• Pigs

[alyxrawrr]

it's the circle of life. if we don't eat them, they're gonna eat us.

[GaryXGoree]

Meanie!

Let them eat me.

Haha

[wndlvr5]

Wow, that's pretty sad...

[GaryXGoree]

I know.

No meat for mee!

[skate4life8947]

im the first one to view woot

[GaryXGoree]

Haha yes you are.

[JR9844]

I live on a farm, and it is nothing like that. people who live in the city are usually the ones who own places like these

[scifitim]

I hope so!

[scifitim]

Circle of life? Not too bright.......don't bother ....

[ta2joe13]

lol good point, its so true. just like "' animal farm '"

[alyxrawrr]

If you haven't noticed, that was almost a year ago. And it was a joke, my friend. GaryxGore is my friend in real life.

And FYI, I am a vegetarian. Thank you.

[andydepaoli]

alyxrawrr wrote "if we don't eat them, they're gonna eat us" ... so cows, lambs and chickens are gonna eat you?

Why do people always repeat these trite comebacks without thinking about what they say?

[MEXNECK01]

Now im hungry

[littlemokid12]

love the videoo!!!!!!

real sick but good

[alyxrawrr]

haha