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When you look in the mirror, do you see Michael Vick?

By My Wild Irish Prose | August 19, 2009

If you eat beef, chicken or pork from the factory farm system – the origin of most meat unless it’s organic or free range – you are a participant in an industrial animal suffering machine that makes Michael Vick’s dog fighting operation look like a petting zoo.
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 Chickens are typically crowded by the thousands into huge warehouses and given less than half a square foot of space in which to live their short and miserable lives. Shortly after hatching, chickens have the ends of their beaks cut off without anesthesia to reduce injuries that result when stressed birds are driven to fighting. These particular broiler breeds have been genetically altered to grow large very fast – they only have 6 weeks. Because these genetic freaks, hundreds of millions die before slaughter, in part because their lungs and heart are not developed. They may also experience crippling leg disorders, as their legs are not capable of supporting their abnormally heavy bodies. Confined in unsanitary, disease-ridden factory farms, the birds also frequently succumb to heat prostration, infectious diseases, and cancer. The ones that don’t can thank the infusions of antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to die.

Pigs, cattle and eggs are a similar story. pigs on factory farms are forced to live in their own feces, vomit, and even amid the corpses of other pigs. Cattle don’t graze in the pasture anymore, but live crammed into a feedlot, shoulder to shoulder with 100,000 of his brethren, ankle deep in manure, existing only to eat and ingest antibiotics and hormones.

Know anything about veal calves?

There are three primary reasons you aren’t aware of this horrorshow. The first is that you don’t want to be. The second is that the meat industry doesn’t want you to be. The third is that the corporate media has no interest in reporting this type of news. It might make you unhappy.

It’s funny how we think about animals. Dogs, cats and horses are our beloved pets, while cattle, pigs and chickens are basically tortured their entire lives until they are processed like machine parts. Bye Bye Bossy.

At least the dogs get a chance to put up a fight.

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