Nov 21 2007
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By Vi Ransel
11/21/07
Thirty percent of insecticides,
sixty percent of herbicides
and ninety percent of fungicides
sprayed directly on to the plants
eaten by people and animals
have been identified by the EPA
as definitive causes of cancer.
The filthy, cramped contaminated conditions
in Confined Animal Feeding Operations
cause disease in the valuable animal product,
so beef, pork and poultry are fed
on massive doses of antibiotics.
Agricultural estrogenic hormones
added to the feed of the animal product
interfere with human sexual development,
but fatter cattle faster results in More Profit.
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Nov 17 2007
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By Suki Falconberg
11/17/07
I have seen it all before but it still shocks me. The Humane Farming Association recently shot undercover video at an Ohio pig farm which shows animals living and dying in conditions far more horrifying than one finds in any torture camp. And what I am about to describe in this article is typical of the lives of the 10 billion ‘food’ animals raised for slaughter in America each year.
Pigs with broken legs and broken backs; pigs with prolapsed vaginas and abscessed tumors; pigs crowded so closely together they cannot move or turn around, living in their own excrement; pigs bashed with hammers and shocked with electric prods.
At this Ohio farm, the pigs are killed through strangulation. We see a worker kicking and then beating a pig with a metal bar. The pig cannot walk either due to broken legs or partial paralysis, and so the man relentlessly bashes and bashes and bashes her to make her crawl down a corridor until he kicks her off a four-foot ledge onto a muddy yard. She is then chained around the neck and hoisted by a fork-lift. It takes her about five minutes to die as she struggles desperately. During her last few seconds of life, you see one of her feet waving feebly in the air. While this is happening, the men are joking around, as if it is all good fun.
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