People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Last edited by Sukino on Mon May 18, 2009 3:14 pm; edited 2 times in total

I would really appreciate it if you would take a few moments of your time to look at a few things..

The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes of years past are now distant memories. On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless sheds, wire cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems. These animals will never raise their families, root in the soil, build nests, or do anything that is natural to them. They won't even feel the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they are loaded onto trucks bound for slaughter.

Meet the animals

~Chickens~
Chickens are inquisitive, interesting animals who are as intelligent as mammals like cats, dogs, and even primates. They are very social and like to spend their days together, scratching for food, cleaning themselves in dust baths, roosting in trees, and lying in the sun.

But the more than 9 billion chickens raised on factory farms each year in the U.S. never have the chance to do anything that is natural to them. They will never even meet their parents, let alone be raised by them. They will never take dust baths, feel the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, roost in trees, or build nests.

*Cows*
Cows are gentle giants, large in size but sweet in nature. They are curious, clever animals who have been known to go to amazing lengths to escape from slaughterhouses. These very social animals prefer to spend their time together, and they form complex relationships, very much like dogs form packs.

In the U.S., more than 41 million of these sensitive animals suffer and die for the meat and dairy industries every year. When they are still very young, cows are burned with hot irons (branding), their testicles are ripped out of their scrotums (castration), and their horns are cut or burned off—all without painkillers. Once they have grown big enough, they are sent to massive, muddy feedlots to be fattened for slaughter or to dairy farms, where they will be repeatedly impregnated and separated from their calves until their bodies give out and they are sent to die.

-Pigs-
Many people who know pigs compare them to dogs because they are friendly, loyal, and intelligent. Pigs are naturally very clean and avoid, if at all possible, soiling their living areas. When given the chance to live away from factory farms, pigs will spend hours playing, lying in the sun, and exploring their surroundings with their powerful sense of smell. Considered smarter than 3-year-old human children, pigs are very clever animals.

As piglets, they are taken away from their mothers when they are less than 1 month old; their tails are cut off, some of their teeth are cut off, and the males have their testicles ripped out of their scrotums (castration), all without any pain relief. They spend their entire lives in overcrowded pens on a tiny slab of filthy concrete.

There is much more. If you want to learn more about the abuse of your food, go to this link.
www.goveg.com

Note: Im not calling you a bad person if you eat meat, I just want to get the word out about a few things..Going Vegan/Vegetarian is the best thing that you can do for the world and yourself. <3

Bunches of love,
Sukino and the PETA group

No offense...i think its a natural thing to eat meat...now but when we do this its sorta overkill...i think we should hunt for our food...we are naturally omnivores...but I'm still going to eat meat,i mean other animals eat each other...but i certainly do think its wrong to slaughter them like this o.O

When I saw what they do to them when they get to the slaughterhouse, I stopped meat all together. :l It's so sad.

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O.x that's cruel... you can just kill them quickly... x.x gosh... why do people enjoy torturing creatures less fortunate than them selves?.....