Animal Suffering
Are you aware of the fact that more than 100,000 cows are slaughtered
every day in the Unite Sates?
Most animals in Western countries are raised on “factory farms.”
These facilities are designed to produce the maximum number
of animals for slaughter at the minimum expense. Animals are
crowded together, disfigured and treated like machines for the
conversion of feed into flesh. This is a reality that most of us will
never see with our own eyes. It has been said that, “One visit to a
slaughterhouse will make you a vegetarian for life.”
Leo Tolstoy said, “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will
be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.”
Although most of us do not actively condone killing, we have
developed the habit, supported by society, of eating meat regularly,
without any real awareness of what is being done to the
animals we eat.
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