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Duluth News Tribune May 8th 2006
Reject factory farms by going vegetarian
Regarding the article in the News Tribune April 23, "Remnants of the jungle remain," animals on factory farms have no legal protection from the cruelty that would be illegal if inflicted on dogs or cats. Those cruelties include neglect, mutilation, and gruesome and violent slaughter.
Yet farmed animals are no less intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as companions.
Factory-farmed animals are given so little space they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are deprived of exercise so all their bodies' energy goes toward producing flesh, eggs or milk for human consumption. They are fed drugs to fatten them faster and to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them, and they are genetically altered to grow faster or to produce more milk or eggs than they would naturally. Many animals become crippled under their own weight and die within inches of water and food.
Chickens and turkeys are bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts, lungs and limbs often can't keep up and their beaks are burned off with a hot blade.
Cattle are castrated, their horns are ripped out of their heads and third-degree burns (branding) are inflicted on them, all without any pain relief.
Dairy cows are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to cruel veal farms so that humans can drink the calves' milk.
Those who survive the nightmarish journey to the slaughterhouse have their throats slit, often while still fully conscious. Likewise, many are conscious when plunged into the scalding water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their bodies are skinned or hacked apart.
Take a stand against cruelty to animals. Go vegetarian.
JEANNE JEWELL
SUPERIOR
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you got to look outside your eyes
you got to think outside your brain
you got to walk outside your life
Reject factory farms by going vegetarian
Regarding the article in the News Tribune April 23, "Remnants of the jungle remain," animals on factory farms have no legal protection from the cruelty that would be illegal if inflicted on dogs or cats. Those cruelties include neglect, mutilation, and gruesome and violent slaughter.
Yet farmed animals are no less intelligent or capable of feeling pain than are the dogs and cats we cherish as companions.
Factory-farmed animals are given so little space they can't even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are deprived of exercise so all their bodies' energy goes toward producing flesh, eggs or milk for human consumption. They are fed drugs to fatten them faster and to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them, and they are genetically altered to grow faster or to produce more milk or eggs than they would naturally. Many animals become crippled under their own weight and die within inches of water and food.
Chickens and turkeys are bred and drugged to grow so quickly that their hearts, lungs and limbs often can't keep up and their beaks are burned off with a hot blade.
Cattle are castrated, their horns are ripped out of their heads and third-degree burns (branding) are inflicted on them, all without any pain relief.
Dairy cows are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to cruel veal farms so that humans can drink the calves' milk.
Those who survive the nightmarish journey to the slaughterhouse have their throats slit, often while still fully conscious. Likewise, many are conscious when plunged into the scalding water of the defeathering or hair-removal tanks or while their bodies are skinned or hacked apart.
Take a stand against cruelty to animals. Go vegetarian.
JEANNE JEWELL
SUPERIOR
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you got to look outside your eyes
you got to think outside your brain
you got to walk outside your life