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Animal Rights

As a consumer, it is your right to know what you are consuming and how it’s being produced.

However, the meat industry has put laws in place to make sure that the consumer is kept in the dark with what goes on behind the scenes. This is what really goes on behind closed doors.

What can you do?

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Pigs

Pigs are mutilated and slaughtered on an enormous scale.
Female Pigs are Forcefully Impregnated by Artificial Insemination.
Most breeding pigs spend their life confined in small stalls made of metal bars.
Pregnant sows live directly above their own decomposing waste. Deprived of the ability to nuzzle her piglets, she has enough room only to stand and lie down.
These naturally curious and intelligent animals live out their lives in a cycle of pregnancy, birth, and nursing until they are eventually sent to slaughter.
Piglets are castrated and Tail-Docked. Because tail-biting is a common behavior in captive environments and can lead to injury and infection, most three week old piglets have a portion of their tails sheared off. Pain relief is rarely provided.
The nation’s pig farms produce the equivalent weight of 2.5 Golden Gate Bridges of excrement a year. The disposal of this excrement has toxic effects on workers, local residents and their water supply.

Learn more: https://www.farmsanctuary.org/pigs/

Cows for Meat & Dairy

Cows who produce dairy milk spend their lives in constant cycles of pregnancy, artificial inseminations, giving birth and having their calves removed.
Calves born in the dairy industry are detached from their mothers within hours of birth. Such separation, and lack of nutrients from their mother’s milk, will often cause calves to become sick, eat less, lose weight, and cry so much that their throats become raw and inflamed.
In 2019, 33 million cows were slaughtered for beef in the US.
Millions of male calves, because they can’t produce milk, are sold to be raised and slaughtered for beef, and hundreds of thousands of others are destined for earlier deaths to be sold as veal (the meat of young calves).
Castration is thought to improve meat quality, so male calves are often castrated.
Nearly all cows used for dairy in the U.S. are eventually killed for human consumption at 4 to 5 years old. In natural conditions, cows can live 20 to 25 years.
Cows in the meat industry are usually sent to slaughter before 3 years of age. Some animals are still conscious when their throats are cut.
Learn more: https://www.farmsanctuary.org/cows/

Workers Rights

The farmed-animal industry exploits poor people and immigrants.
Factory farms and slaughterhouses are placed in low-income regions of the U.S., where they can exploit people to do their dirty work for low wages. The farmed-animal industry often lures immigrants far away from their homes with false promises of good jobs, knowing that these undocumented workers will likely not report unsafe conditions for fear of being deported.
Killing animals is dangerous work, in fact, working at a slaughterhouse is “the most dangerous factory job in America,” according to Human Rights Watch.
Nearly one in three slaughterhouse workers suffers from illness or injury every year, compared to one in ten workers in other manufacturing jobs. - U.S. Dept of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics
- PETA

Did you know?

Farms inject dairy cows with bovine growth hormone (BGH), a genetically-engineered hormone shown to increase the risk of human health problems.
COVID-19 likely came from human use of animals, but there have been many other zoonotic (illness that can be transmitted between animals and humans) outbreaks such as those of ebola, SARS and HIV.