fortheanimalsukeducation:

91% of the 10,153,000,000 USA farm animals killed in the 2010 are chickens with absolutely no legal protections whatsoever. This is, in no way, a rational or consistent application of animal protection law. 875,000,000 of these animals died lingering deaths from disease, injury, starvation, suffocation, maceration, or other atrocities of animal farming and transport.

pandacake:

The “disease of disconnection” plagues the human condition. As a species, we are not at ease with ourselves - with our bodies, with our minds or with our feelings. We are not at ease with others - with other human beings as well as other animals. We can be nervous, competitive, fearful and worried; we crave respect and approval while simultaneously seeking dominance and power. We certainly aren’t at ease with our environment, and are constantly altering it to suit our needs or wants with little regard for how our actions impact others or the earth. This dis-ease causes all sorts of problems. We are destroying ourselves, as well as other animal species and the planet, in a misguided quest to find happiness, or ease of being.

By enslaving and abusing other animals in order to feed and clothe ourselves, we deprive them of freedom and happiness. How can we hope to be free or happy when our own lives are rooted in depriving others of the very thing we say we value most in life -the freedom to pursue happiness? If you want to bring more peace and happiness into your own life, stop subjecting others to violence and unhappiness.

We tell our children that “might does not make right,” and yet we throw this high-minded idea out the window when it comes to the everyday reality of using might to humiliate, torture and kill the animals we raise for food.

pandacake:

Regarding our violence against other beings: … humans have participated in wars and committed many atrocities against humans and nonhumans for thousands of years. Does looking back on our past evolution dictate our future evolution? What is the highest consciousness we can rise to? Could there be a better way?

mothernaturenetwork:

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yackattack:

thedailywhat:

What The Kids Are Eating of the Day: Ruled not good enough by America’s largest fast-food chains, the so-called “pink slime” — meat and meat by-products treated with ammonia — is still A-OK by U.S. Department of Agriculture standards.

In fact, the USDA will reportedly purchase over 7 million pounds of the gunk to turn into hamburgers and tacos for cafeterias feeding America’s schoolchildren.

McDonald’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell were all persuaded to stop using ammonia-treated meat after the practice of rinsing dog-grade meat with ammonia to wash away harmful bacteria was brought to the attention of consumers by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

“We’re taking a product that would be sold in its cheaper form for dogs,” said Oliver on his TV show Food Revolution. “After this process, we can give it to humans.”

But a USDA spokesman said there were no plans to stop using pink slime as part of the national school lunch program.

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as the Food Safety and Inspection Service considers ammonium hydroxide as ‘generally recognized as safe,’” said the spokesman, Aaron Lavallee. “FSIS reviewed the suitability of Beef Products Inc.’s use of ammonium hydroxide in order to assess its effectiveness in performing the intended technical purpose of use, at lowest level necessary, and to ensure that the product is not adulterated or misleading to consumers.”

However, since ammonia beef falls outside the jurisdiction of federal labeling requirements, parents have no way of knowing what exactly is being served to their kids.

[thedaily.]

Learn a little bit more about your food, people. The information is out there!

whyiamvegan:

amyriadofmeat:

 Cows are fed ammonia, sawdust, newspaper scraps, sewage, and plants covered in insecticides.  This fattens the cows at a cheaper price.  Cattle are also fed antibiotics to prevent disease within the farms.  Some of the antibiotics have led to the growth of “super-bugs” .  These strains of bacteria are sold in supermarkets and eaten by consumers. Pigs are especially susceptible to both avian and human strains of the flu.  This allows the virus to swap genes and create  new strains.  Contained animal feeding operations use twenty-five million pounds of antibiotics every year.  The United States Department of Agriculture only tests one of every twenty-five thousand animals slaughtered for chemical residue and disease.

Because we all deserve health, both cows and humans, and factory farms and meat consumption don’t support that.

sheldrakillher:

“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”
― Albert Schweitzer

sunshel:

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