... attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and obesity." Not only are the numbers staggering but the cruelty that these animals are subjected to is chilling. Gail A. Eisnitz book "Slaughterhouse" takes the reader on a journey from one slaughterhouse to another through the United States. Individuals interviewed for this book admitted to deliberately beating, strangling, boiling, or dismembering animals alive in an effort to "keep the ... humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together." Bibliography Eis...

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... branded with third degree burns. The methods of death are largely abundant, in fact so that one could write a book and call it the "101 Ways Animals Die in the Slaughterhouse". If animals don't die from disease first, then they have to first be transported to a corporate farm. The transportation process is like the slave-ships from Africa, in the fact ... freezing weather results in frozen body parts, causing severe pain"(Why Vegan? 5). Many animals are frozen in place by their own manure. The trauma inflicted from such joyrides to the slaughterhouse have produced "downers". Downers are...

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... secluded away from people and closed off to visitors. If it is acceptable treatment, why is it so hidden from the public? Many people only have to see one graphic slaughterhouse video before becoming a vegetarian. 2.) Another reason why we believe it is okay is because dairy and meat products are two of the four main food groups. Society teaches us in ... ...

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... Bone-Meal"(123). Though Boxer is loved to everyone, and has done more work in a day than any of the other animals do in a week combined, he is sold to a slaughterhouse for money. Soon the animals are doing more work and very willingly because they believe that they are doing it of their own will and because they are free. Yet ... ...

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... of laborious slaves, "I will work harder". This motto brought him to his death as he grew weak the pigs got greedy and abused Boxer's services and sent him to the slaughterhouse for a little profit. The animals that make up Animal Farm display a wide range of character. The pigs were smart and controlling, the horses were simple-minded hard-workers, the sheep ... ...

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... found. Before Pollan is subjected to Polyface Farm, he was expecting something much different. Through many readings and visits to other slaughterhouses, a picture was painted in Pollan's mind of what a slaughterhouse was. When Pollan sees how these animals are treated at this farm, he rewrites the misleading information in his head. Pollan says that when he looks at the animals here ... ...

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