... aspect of a vegetarian lifestyle, the less abrasive impact on the lives of innocent animals is protected. Unfortunately, daily harmless creatures are being tortured and killed for their flesh. Chickens awaiting slaughter are confined to small areas in which they live daily in a mass of their own excretions which in turn creates excruciatingly painful ulcers and blisters. Free roaming chickens are expected ... their food and water then becomes inexcusable which in turn leads to starvation or dehydr! ation. As soon as their productivity of eggs decrease they are sent to the slaughter hous...

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... to create grazing pastures for cattle to be sent back to the states as burgers and pet food. The menu at mc Donald's is based on meat. This means constant slaughter, day by day, of animals born and bred to be turned into McDonald products. Especially chickens and pigs they spend their lives in artificial conditions of huge factory farms, with ... no access to air or sunshine and no freedom of movement. Their deaths are bloody and barbaric. In the slaughter house animals struggle to escape. Cattle become frantic as they watch the animal before tem in the killing line being beaten, electr...

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... some families would be able to survive with everyone working and the Rudkus family almost does. Sinclair's main character Jurgis is one of the men working in the slaughter yard at the meat house. He describes the horrors of working there with blood all over everyone all of the time and if a cow or pig would happen to get loose how they ... what occurred in the early 1900's to the immigrants who needed to find homes and or jobs to survive and how either low pay at their job or when buying a house as the characters were tricked people always cheated them. Upton Sinclair also painted a viv...

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