Future Food: 'Over 50 billion animals are slaughtered every year ...

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Future Food: 'Over 50 billion animals are slaughtered every year

throughout the world for food alone (this does not even include

seafood)'

 

Factory farming is the only way to produce this huge amount of meat,

this is a method which does not even allow for animals' most basic

needs. Life long restriction of movement, darkness, mutilation

without anaesthesia and problems resulting from selective breeding

are the price that creatures capable of feeling pain and fear have to

pay in order to provide this amount of meat. Unspeakable brutality

towards animals has been documented countless times during their

transportation and, of course, in the slaughterhouse.

 

The recognition that animals are sentient beings has brought about a

change in attitude towards the way in which animals are kept over

recent years. It is highly likely that the next generation will

simply not accept practices such as battery cages, sow stalls or live

animal transport.

 

Maybe the next generation will even turn their back on the

slaughtering of animals altogether.

 

Studies in ethology (animal behaviour research) show us that, in

respect of consciousness, intelligence and the ability to feel pain,

many animals are more developed than new born human babies...

 

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=25549 & lang=en