Meat Industry

Wegmans Cruelty

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:38:39 -0700

If you are brave enough to watch this video, then there are some serious questions that you will be confronted with. If you know for a fact that a certain action on your part causes animals to be tortured what will you do? Will you stop? Eating an egg from a chicken living in healthy conditions may be a relatively benign, but as you will see in this documentary about the egg industry, living conditions in modern egg farms are anything but normal and they're anything but natural. Even "free-range" eggs are untrustworthy. There is no federal law regulating the labeling of "free-range" animal products. The animal industry can essentially do whatever the hell they want and flat out lie to you about it.

Real Environmentalism : How meat consumption is destroying the planet

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:27:45 -0700

Many people talk about working to protect the planet, some recycle, some bring cloth bags to the grocery store, some ride their bike to work and others actually go out and rally to change the laws and regulations which are supposed to keep big industry in check. Of all those people, there are very few who are willing to examine our most significant contribution to the destruction of the planet: meat.

Pig farm investigation reveals the unimaginable

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:20:42 -0700

Most people have no idea what happens to animals before they reach their plates in their neat processed form. If you are coming to this page you must be stronger than most people, because truthfully most people simply don't want to know.

Knowing the truth bears with it a certain responsibilty. Please don't push this out of your mind. This is an on going reality for farm animals all over the world. Stop contributing to it. Stop eating meat.

Meat Industry Statistics : The environmental impact of meat

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:14:04 -0700

Meat is the single most significant factor contributing to the destruction of the planet, and it is a factor that we control directly as individuals.

Deforestation and habitat Destruction

Meat causes deforestation in and habitat destruction on multiple levels. Clearing trees to create grazing land is the most obvious, but grazing land is only part of the picture. Most domesticated animals raised for slaughter or for their byproducts are fed grains either as a supplement to grazing or as a replacement. Growing these grains takes space, and when there is a forest in the way of growing grains for animals it has always been the forest that looses. Eating organic doesn't change a thing when it comes to deforestation. The forest of the world are being cut down to make room for burgers and hotdogs, organic and free range as they might be.

The equivalent to seven football fields is destroyed every minute!

Earthlings Narrated by Joaquin Pheonix

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:05:59 -0700

For most people the images in this film will be shocking. The reality of the animal industry is not pretty, but not knowing about it only makes it worse. After all, if you don't know that something is wrong, why would you be motivated to change?

They die piece by piece : Investigation reveals rampant cruelty in industrial slaughterhouses

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:59:31 -0700

by Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer
(click here to view pdf of original article)

PASCO, Wash.

It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Ramon Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was “second-legger,” a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour.

The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren’t.

Speciesism : Discrimination at the root level

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:42:51 -0700

Speciesism is the final and most deeply accepted form of discrimination in our culture. Speciesism assumes that humanity is set apart from the animal world, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Humans (aka homo sapiens sapiens) are and will always be bound by genetic lineage to squirrels apes and fish.

The Meatrix

Gandharva — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:11:34 -0700

Do you really want to know where your meat, dairy, and eggs come from? Take the blue pill and you can stay in the illusion of quaint family farms, take the red pill and wake up to the reality of modern idustrial factory farming.

Cruelty in a crowd

Gandharva — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:59:40 -0700

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

— Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines