In “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian,” Pamela Rice explains how,
where farming is concerned, “changes have ushered in a polluted
landscape, a host of new pathogens, and a hell on Earth for the
animals.”
“In America today, only four companies slaughter 59 percent of all
the hogs, only four companies slaughter over 83 percent of all the
cattle, and only two companies slaughter nearly 60 percent of all the
chickens. At the farm level, the trend over recent decades has been for
many fewer operations to produce many more animals. In 1967, for
example, there were over a million hog farms. By 1998, the number fell
to 114,000. The trend has funneled many of America’s farmers into
contract, or franchise-like, arrangements that strictly take choices
about herd densities, feed, and veterinary care away from them. The
changes have ushered in a polluted landscape, a host of new pathogens,
and a hell on Earth for the animals.”
As long as the public continues to buy these products produced from
tortured animals, this trend will continue to expand. Industrial animal
agriculture is a booming business worldwide. Do you see why I say that
human society is largely sociopathic – lacking in compassion for farmed
animals?
Isn’t it interesting that most humans choose to believe the liars who
profit from their ignorance? And when they develop preventable diseases
such as adult-onset diabetes (which is increasingly affecting younger
people), heart disease, and a host of other problems, they would rather
continue believing those who are responsible and who profit from keeping
them ignorant, such as the huge, powerful pharmaceutical companies, for
example. Then, to make themselves feel like they’re “doing good,” they
donate money to “charities” that are part of the vicious cycle –
torturing more animals hidden away in laboratories to “find a cure”!
Yet it’s so easy (and so much fun!) to go vegan! It’s good for
humans, nonhumans, and the environment.
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