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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (101664)	4/22/2005 6:33:15 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

All those poor factory farm animals are bred just so they can be factory farm animals. They are never in contact with sunlight or blue sky. They don't roll in the mud. The babies don't live with their mommies. Well, the baby pigs do suckle, but their moms are strapped to the floor so they cannot move, and so the piglets never get nuzzled or loved or enjoy any normal interaction from their mothers. They emphatically do not enjoy any normal animal activities. They cannot even enjoy the normal body movements that animals make. They live their whole lives in despair, in cages with dead and dying of their own kind. Their lives are going to end very quickly anyway, because they are altered genetically and pumped full of growth hormones to bring them to market as quickly as possible. And massive doses of antibiotics because of the diseases that sweep through when you cram live animals in tiny cages they never leave. By buying their meat an restaurants and supermarkets, you are creating a demand for them, so more of them are produced to suffer. I am not a huge advocate of buying free range meat, because there is more and more evidence that as the demand for this meat grows, and profits increase, unscrupulous people are creating huge operations that are organic in name only, where the animals do not actually enjoy much freedom of movement. But real free range animals have had normal animal lives, so it would still be better to eat that animal's meat. At least I would think so.