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Cruelty
in the Chicken Slaughterhouse
Virgl Butler, Former Tyson Slaughterhouse Testmonial — January 2003
I personally witnessed many acts of cruelty
toward the chickens by employees of the plant on a
nightly basis...I am writing this letter because I
want to see something done about this cruelty...
The
Shame of Chicken Factory Farms
Martin Coutts, Sunday Mirror, investigation — August
2003
Some
birds are so lame and deformed they can only drag
themselves to the food and water troughs by their
wings. Others stand motionless, too dazed or dying
to move. There
are more than 36,000 chickens here in huge windowless
sheds. The conditions they have to endure during
their short, brutal lives are so horrific it defies
belief...
Dairy
Monsters
Guardian Unlimited, investigation — February
2003
We
used to take it for granted that milk was good for
us. But now the industry faces a crisis, with the
public questioning such assumptions. So just how
healthy is milk?...
Something
Fowl in the Air — Poultry Industry Contamination
Lundy & Davis,
PR Newswire, feature — January 2003
Lundy
says their environmental and health surveys have found extremely
alarming levels of toxic contamination and disease incidence
in Prairie Grove, all of which can be directly linked back
to the poultry industry’s negligent management and disposal
of chicken litter...
Memo
Distributed to Meat Inspectors by U.S. Department of
Agriculture
Harper's Magazine, feature — April
2003
If
you have unidentifiable material on the carcass and you
are unsure what to do, you are instructed to apply a RETAIN/REJECT
tag on the leading side of the carcass. It is unnecessary
to cause significant loss of production. You don't have to
decide what the unidentified material is, where it came
from, or any remedy. That is outside your scope of work...
Down
on the Farm:
The Supersizing of America's Livestock Farms
Dayton Daily News six-part, investigation — December
2002
For
three years, Ohio regulators didn’t know what was
going on inside the long white barns of the state’s
largest cattle farm. They
didn’t know the farm was storing uncovered piles
of manure, stacked higher than a basketball hoop, on
a cement slab outside...
The
World's Problems on a Plate
Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian, commentary — May
2002
Advertising
and sales campaigns geared to developing nations are
quick to equate grain-fed beef with a country's prestige.
Climbing the "protein ladder" becomes the
mark of success...
So
You're an Environmentalist. Why Are You Still Eating
Meat?
Jim Motavalli, E, The Environmental
Magazine, cover story — January
2002
Just
about every aspect of meat production — from
grazing-related loss of cropland and open space, to
the inefficiencies of feeding vast quantities of water
and grain to cattle in a hungry world, to pollution
from ‘factory
farms’ — is an environmental disaster with
wide and sometimes catastrophic consequences...
Oprah's
Battle with Ranchers Became First Amendment Cause Celebre
David L. Hudson,
Jr., First Amendment Center, commentary — August 2001
It was such a big case because of who Oprah was
and also because it dealt with such an important matter of
public concern — food safety...
Uses
Made of the Cattle Carcass
UK Government, investigation — 2000
The public associates cattle primarily with
the production of milk and meat for human consumption,
but in truth the number of products which derive from
the cow, living or dead, is exceedingly large...
Also
a Part of Creation
Economist, article — August 1995
This year's unlikely sight of middle-aged
Britons taking to the streets to fight the trade in
live animals reflects a moral debate that is not going
to go away...
Cow
Dancing
Lois
Flynne, essay
Dancer was about seven
months pregnant when she came to me, a Jersey Springer,
her great bag swinging, heavy with milk from her last
calf long gone, long dead, long veal. Not long ago,
like all the rest, her fifth baby had been taken from
her, barely a day old, a little boy...
Animal
Factories
Jim Mason, excerpts
It
is hard to see it, this mountain range of pain and
destruction, for it is obscured by the mists of popular
myth and the fog and haze generated by the animal
industries. On television, sleek cows graze in lush
fields while dairy industry advertisements tell us
that “milk
is a natural” or that it builds beautiful bodies.
Or we are told that animals love to be eaten, as in
the Oscar Mayer jingle in which a chorus of children
sings: “I’d
love to be an Oscar Mayer weiner...
The
Ground Beneath Our Feet
John Robbins, EarthSave,
commentary
The
U.S. Soil Conservation Service reports that more
than four million acres of cropland are being lost
to erosion in this country every year...Of this
staggering loss, 85 percent is directly associated
with livestock raising...
Packaged
Pigs:
Ending the Confinement
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
Roughly 100 millin pigs are raised and slaughtered
in the U.S. every year. As babies, they are subjected to painful mutilations
without anesthesia or pain relievers...
Beyond
the Law:
Agribusiness and the Systemic Abuse of Animals Raised for Food or Food Production
David Wolfson, exerpts — 1999
Specifically,
29 states have enacted laws that create a legal realm
whereby certain acts, no matter how cruel, are outside
the reach of anticruelty statutes as long as the acts
are deemed "accepted," "common," "customary," or "normal" farming
practices...
A
Childhood Memory
Paulette Callen, essay
Like
people screaming. But it couldn’t be. I was old
enough to know that just couldn’t be. Nothing
bad could be happening in there. It wouldn’t
be allowed. I was old enough to know that. So I
passed the building each morning and evening with
a strange prickling of dread, and forgot about
it till the next time...
How
to Win an Argument With a Meat Eater
John Robbins, EarthSave, commentary
Environmental,
Waste, Water, Natural Resources, Human Health, Pesticide,
Survival, Hunger, Ethical arguments...
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