| The way animals are treated in modern day society | | | | legs will break from the strain. These animals are |
| is appalling. American has seemed to have lost all its | | | | beaten severely by the workers in the warehouses |
| respect for human nature. We take the animals for | | | | where they are kept. |
| granted and treat them horrible while doing so. | | | | The methods by which these animals are |
| Animals dying for human use are one issue that a lot | | | | exterminated is extremely inhumane. It is |
| of animal rights activists have a problem with, but | | | | understandable that putting each to sleep using drugs |
| what other people don't realize is that if the animals | | | | would be too expensive, but the methods used are |
| were treated nicer and appreciated more activists | | | | far from considerate. Pigs and Chickens get it the |
| wouldn't be so upset. An entire cow dies for every | | | | worst. They are hung by there feet on conveyor |
| pair of leather motorcycle chaps and another one for | | | | belts first. Hanging from their feet upside-down |
| a matching leather motorcycle vest. In reality, those | | | | causes ankles and knees to break and become |
| cows could have been used for leather, food, and | | | | dislocated. Pigs are sent through a process that slits |
| much more but instead 3/4 of their bodies have | | | | their throats, which is meant to kill them but rarely |
| gone to waste. | | | | does. They are then sent through a fire pit to burn |
| The biggest problem with the animal industry is the | | | | of the excess hair. Of course remember most of the |
| way animals in America are treated. They are seen | | | | pigs are still alive, so they are being burned alive. It is |
| as product, an income, not as a living creature. Most | | | | also not uncommon for this to not fully kill all the pigs. |
| Americans wouldn't stand for a dog or cat to be | | | | The process gets more gruesome from here, so I |
| treated the way cows, pigs, chickens and sheep are. | | | | won't continue, but it is easy to see that this process |
| Almost all of the meat people in America consume | | | | is more complicated and inhumane than necessary. |
| comes from two or three major meat | | | | This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to |
| manufacturers. This monopoly is what causes the | | | | animal cruelty, but it is a subject that needs to be |
| problem. Giant mean companies are usually the ones | | | | discussed. Meat-lovers and vegetarians alike can work |
| to blame for animal cruelty, because they want to | | | | together to improve the conditions for animals used |
| run their slaughter business quickly and cheaply. | | | | for food and clothing. It may seem like an odd pair, |
| Animals are given hormones so that they can be as | | | | but truly it isn't. The issue isn't whether you believe in |
| big as possible, but are kept in cages almost their | | | | eating meat or not, but if you believe in treating |
| entire lives. This causes their bones to be extremely | | | | animals like living, breathing creatures. |
| weak, and often since they are so fat there bones | | | | |