The Lingering Shame Of Mankind ............continued

The inhumane treatment of factory farm industry animals is no less unconscionable than that which mankind is capable of inflicting upon itself, to wit, “the holocaust” during World War I l. Calves taken from their mothers when they are less than one month old, are confined to tiny enclosures called “veal crates”, where they are unable to turn around and have to lie in their own excrement while sleeping. They are put on a special diet which causes them to become anemic and keeps their meat lean and pink for future human consumption. This is the way these helpless creatures live out their short sixteen years of life until they are led to slaughter. Farm pigs undergo a similar fate when pregnant sows are imprisoned in two foot wide “gestation crates”, where they too have no room to turn around and must live, eat and sleep amidst their own feces and urine until being slaughtered for pork. Egg laying hens are mercilessly jammed into “battery cages”, wire enclosures so restrictive, they cannot spread their wings or even turn around. AS baby chicks, the tips of their upper beaks are cauterized and smoothed tp prevent pecking injury to handlers while being confined to their cages when they become adult hens. The modified beaks also make it difficult to eat and engage in the natural habit of grooming their feathers.