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(1) Hundreds of millions of tons
of the world’s grain harvest are fed to animals,
less than 5 million tons of grains could provide
adequate food for the 15 million children who starve
to death each year!
(2) Huge numbers of intensively raised domestic
animals, forced into existence beyond their normal
level of reproductivity by man’s technological
and genetic manipulation, are not helping to feed
those in need despite industry claims.These animals
are in fact eating and wasting food that could be
more equitably distributed among hungry people.
(3) It takes over twenty pounds of grain protein
to produce just one pound of meat protein, we can
begin to see the consequences of our eating habits
on the global food equation. Turning out more grainfed-
meat fills the bellies of a few but leaves many
more with nothing to eat.
(4) Environmental consequences:
(a) Factory animals concentrated body wastes, laced
with chemical residues, run off saturated into rivers
and ground waters.
(b) When slaughtered, the processing of their bodies
contribute again to water pollution.
(5) In the struggle to increase production and make
a living, the grain farmers have heavily fertilized
their land and sprayed herbicides, insecticides
and other chemicals. Thus the cause of this agricultural
pollution are not to be found only in few acres
of cabbages, carrots, apples and oranges but in
the extensive raising of sheep die during transport
grains and crops fed to intensively farmed animals.
Reasons to prefer grain-protein to meat-protein.
Research now show that our bodies daily protein
requirements are actually far less than was only
recently supposed. Humans can get the protein necessary
fibre or roughage in the diet directly from where
the animals get theirs, Grains!
Drug residues in the meat
are the inevitable result of animals ingestion of
food additives with the risk of continuous low dosage
of these drugs for the human consumers of factory-meat.
IF YOU ARE A NON-VEGETARIAN BECOME A VEGETARIAN
(SAFELY) AS SOON AS YOU CAN
The conditions of the factory farm and examining
them with clear images will encourage us to become
aware of what we are eating, to be alert to the
vast cruelties of factory farming, to question our
participation in this ugly process, and reawaken
a sense of compassion for the animal kingdom.
The purpose here is not to condemn but to help generate
peace between men and animals.
Diary industries generate a large amount of effluents.
it is estimated that about 2-4 litres of water is
required to process a litre of milk.
The callous factory-farming system will collapse
of itself one day, when nobody will be party to
its methods
THUS ENDING THE SUFFERING OF THESE ANIMALS.
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