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home edited Taylor Hain Animals and how they are treated “You’ll ruin my appetite”, this is the typical resp…

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Animals and how they are treated
“You’ll ruin my appetite”, this is the typical response if you ever talk to someone about where there food comes from. The problem here is that people either does not want to know or do not care where there food comes from. It’s not just the meat we consume though, it is the way we treat animals in general. Every day, animals are abused, neglected, and generally uncared for. So why is it that we choose to ignore all of the commercials we see from the Humane Society, the ASPCA, and PETA etc…? We have all seen them and felt some emotion but we continue to ignore them because they are “depressing” or they “are only showing the bad side of the industry”, it is because we do not want to think about any of these things and we just want to go on with our lives as if nothing has happened.
The way we treat animals in shelters and pounds is awful. They cannot take all of these animals in and support them because they do not have the funds to do so. Some shelters have begun using a gas chamber as opposed to Euthanasia. It can sometimes take up to 20 minutes of agony for these animals to die. In other parts of the world they will shove dogs and other animals in trash compacters because it is cheaper. Animals that families cannot support will often be fed a piece of food laced with poison or other chemicals or they will be shot.
Animals that we use for clothing are treated just as badly. The cows from India that we use for leather are bought from with their owners with the promise that they will live the rest of their lives on farms, when in fact what the people who buy them will do is walk them through the barren conditions of the land to get them loaded into trucks for slaughter. Often times these animals become so weak from dehydration and lack of food that they will collapse or be unable to move on. When this happens, in an effort to keep them moving, they will snap sections of the animal’s tails or beat them with switches to try to get them back up on their feet. If the animal collapses before it is loaded onto the truck, they will beat it one last time to try to get it up or, if that fails, they will slaughter the animal there.
Animals that we use for laboratory testing are unnecessarily treated horribly and purposely inflicted pain upon. Monkeys are used for to test trauma injuries in car crashes. They will have their heads strapped into a helmet and it will be thrust at a 45 degree angle and after they do this they will staple the animals head back together until it is healed.
In conclusion, all I want to say is “I don’t care if you eat meat, I only want you to understand how animals are treated in this day and age.”

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Make A Difference edited Make a difference http://www.peta.org/ the most effective animal rights groups, here you can lea…

Make a difference
http://www.peta.org/
the most effective animal rights groups, here you can learn what you can do to help spread the message that animals feel everything we do to them
http://meat.org/
Here you can watch a video and pledge to leave meat off your plate for 30 days.
http://aspca.org/
The American society for the prevention of cruelty to animals helps out in shelters and they can help you find out where you can help too
http://www.exploreveg.org/
here is another site where you can help to free animals from the cruel conditions in which they live
http://www.chooseveg.com/
Yet another site where you can learn about all the benefits of being a vegetarian
Read “The Jungle” By Upton Sinclair. This book outlines what happens in the factories and slaughterhouses and its “Standards”.

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LearnMore edited Learn More http://www.earthlings.com/ Here you can learn about the main ways that we use animals…

Learn More
http://www.earthlings.com/
Here you can learn about the main ways that we use animals and what is happening behind those doors.
http://www.meat.org/
This website takes an inside look into the food industry specifically and what is happening behind those walls. If all slaughterhouses had glass walls, wouldn’t we all be vegetarian?
http://www.wikipedia.org/
With this website you can find out just about anything from where your food comes from and get information about any questions you may have
http://www.examiner.com/nutrition-in-portland/do-you-know-where-your-meat-and-animal-products-come-from
Here is an article about where your food comes from that will show you what is going on

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