To begin, animals that are produced for human consumption live their entire lives as machines. For example male cows and pigs are castrated without painkillers. Also when many of the chicken livestock are being bread, they spend their entire lives inside cages that are too small for them, so they are not able to spread their wings, or even turn around. Factory farmers do this because they want the chickens, cows, pigs, and all other animals to spend all of their energy on producing eggs, milk, and flesh. Once the company decides the animal is ready for it to be turned into a product for hum

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Since it's easier to bleed a bird that isn't flapping and struggling, most live birds have their heads dragged through an electrically charged water bath to paralyze -- not stun -- them. Other industrialized nations require that chickens be rendered unconscious or killed prior to bleeding and scalding, so they won't have to go through those processes conscious. (Eisnitz 166)

Thirdly, not only is manufacturing animal products destroying our natural resources, it is also cause a major downfall in our environment. Not only is this something that many people believe is true; it is also a known fact. According to the National Audubon Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists, have recognized that, “Raising animals for food has a worse effect on the planet than just about anything else we can do.” (http://goveg.com/l-enviro.html). People wonder everyday why our ozone lair is so bad, and why it keeps on becoming worse. Well no surprise, this has a lot to do with the manufacturing of meat and meat products. Since it takes so much water to take care of the animals on factory farms, the water pollution caused is responsible for 85 percent of U.S. soil erosion. In the Central Valley of California, “[c]ows on dairy farms produce as much excrement as a city of 21 million people.” (http://www.milksucks.com/phut.html). Consider this: In December 1997, the Senate Agricultural Committee released a report that stated that animals raised for food produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population, roughly 68,000 pounds per second, all without the benefit of waste treatment systems. A Scripps Howard synopsis of the report (April 24, 1998) stated:

In short, when animals get sent to a slaughterhouse to be packaged, they do not go through a painless experience, as much as that would be pleasant, people need to be more aware of this because it is happening everyday of the year.

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