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CRASH COURSE
Everything you need to know in just 3 clicks…
Tribe of Heart
Answers to Farming FAQs
Sustainable, Free-Range Farms and Other Tall Tales
Think of the bare tiny crates and cages—barely larger than the animals crammed inside—as wooden or metal coffins, and the lucky are the dead.
A Directory of U.S. Slaughterhouses
Addresses of approximately 1,100 federally-inspected slaughterhouses located all across the country from Alabama to Wyoming.
WHAT YOU EAT IN FACTORY FARM HELL
• manure
• sand, rocks, dirt, and other debris in the manure
• animal “byproducts” nicely labeled as “animal protein products” (includes internal organs, beaks, bones, feathers, hair, hooves, intestines, skin…and sometimes even euthanized cats and dogs, roadkill, and horses)
• arsenic-based Roxarsone or Decoquinate, which for “broiler” chickens has the feeding directions: “FEED AS THE SOLE RATION.”
• antibiotics—more than 24 million pounds per year
• genetically-modified corn, corn, corn, and more corn which causes sickness and pain
FIND OUT ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE (NOT EDIBLE!) CHICKEN
Why Chickens Are Cool
THE (NOT-SO-)NEW MARKETING OF VEAL
PITCH
Pink (or red) veal is made from happy, healthy calves.
TRUTH
White or pink, the veal industry stinks.
The color may be different but the cruelty is the same.
THE LANGUAGE OF LIES
The following are commonly (ab)used words of slick advertising and product labeling meant to fool consumers so they feel guilt-free—and safe—about eating decomposing animal flesh, pus & blood tainted milk & cheese, and toxin-contaminated sea”food.”
Many “humane or compassionate products” are now even “approved by” so-called reputable animal welfare organizations which have gone Darth Vader and sold out the animals and us.
“cage-free”
“natural”
“humane”
“low cholesterol”
“lean cut”
“heart-healthy”
“organic milk”
“organic meat”
“reforming (factory) farming practices”
“free-range”
“compassionate animal standards”
“sustainable harvesting of our oceans”
“certified humane”
Check out Turkey-Free Holidays.
“Isn’t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife–birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes–by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative–and fatal–health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for “Peace on Earth.”
–from Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm
by C. David Coats and Michael W. Fox
