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09-24-2007, 05:47 AM
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Porking You Up
It’s a fact—ham, sausage, and bacon strips will go right to your
hips. Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging
cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your
waistline and increase your chances of developing deadly diseases
such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis,
Alzheimer’s, asthma, and impotence. Research has shown that
vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and
they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters. Plus,
meat-eaters are nine times more likely to be obese than pure
vegetarians are. Every time you eat animal products, you’re also
ingesting bacteria, antibiotics, dioxins, hormones, and a host of
other toxins that can accumulate in your body and remain there for
years.
Farming Family Values
Factory farms are pure hell for pigs and their babies. Mother pigs
spend most of their lives in tiny “gestation” crates, which are so
small that the animals are unable to turn around or even lie down
comfortably. They are repeatedly impregnated until they are
slaughtered. Piglets, who are taken away from their distraught
mothers after just a few weeks, have their tails chopped off, their
teeth are clipped off with pliers, and the males are castrated—all
without painkillers.
Pigs Have Feelings Too
Ninety-seven percent of pigs in the United States today are raised
in factory farms, where they will never run across sprawling
pastures, bask in the sun, breathe fresh air, or do anything else
that comes naturally to them. Crowded into warehouses with nothing
to do and nowhere to go, they are kept on a steady diet of drugs to
keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many
of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk.
Pigs and Playstations
Think that you can outplay a pig on your Playstation? You may be
surprised. According to research, pigs are much smarter than dogs,
and they even do better at video games than some primates. In fact,
pigs are extremely clever animals who form complex social networks
and have excellent memories. Eating a pig is like eating your dog!
As actor Cameron Diaz put it after hearing that pigs have the mental
capacities of a 3-year-old human: "[Eating bacon is] like eating my
niece!"
Pigs Prefer Mud, Not Crud
Pigs are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient
space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they sleep or
eat. And forget the silly saying “sweating like a pig”—pigs can’t
even sweat! That’s why they bathe in water or mud to cool off. But
in factory farms, they’re forced to live in their own feces and
vomit and even amid the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so
filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer
from mange—think of your worst case of poison ivy, and imagine
having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
The Manure Is Blowing in the Wind …
A pig farm with 5,000 animals produces as much fecal waste as a city
of 50,000 people. In 1995, 25 million gallons of putrid hog urine
and feces spilled into a North Carolina river, immediately killing
between 10 and 14 million fish. To get around water pollution
limits, factory farms will frequently take the tons of urine and
feces that are stored in cesspools and turn them into liquid waste
that they spray into the air. This manure-filled mist is carried
away by the wind and inhaled by the people who live nearby.
Bacteria-Laden Bacon and Harmful Ham
Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory
farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70 percent of them
have pneumonia by the time they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. In
order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would otherwise kill
them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs
on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human
illnesses. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of
“superbacteria,” or antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham,
bacon, and sausage that you’re eating may make the drugs that your
doctor prescribes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
Hell on Wheels
More than 170,000 pigs die in transport each year, and more than
420,000 are crippled by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse.
Transport trucks, which carry pigs hundreds of miles through all
weather extremes with no food or water, regularly flip over,
throwing injured and dying animals onto the road. These terrified
and injured animals are rarely offered veterinary care, and most
languish in pain for hours; some even bleed to death on the side of
the road. After an accident in April 2005, Smithfield spokesperson
Jerry Hostetter told one reporter, “I hate to admit it, but it
happens all the time.”
Killing Them Without Kindness
A typical slaughterhouse kills up to 1,100 pigs every hour, which
makes it impossible for them to be given humane, painless deaths.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented 14 humane slaughter
violations at one processing plant, where inspectors found hogs who
“were walking and squealing after being stunned [with a stun gun] as
many as four times.” Because of improper stunning methods and
extremely fast line speeds, many pigs are still alive when they are
dumped into scalding-hot hair-removal tanks—they literally drown in
scalding-hot water.
goveg.com
Porking You Up
It’s a fact—ham, sausage, and bacon strips will go right to your
hips. Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging
cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your
waistline and increase your chances of developing deadly diseases
such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis,
Alzheimer’s, asthma, and impotence. Research has shown that
vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and
they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters. Plus,
meat-eaters are nine times more likely to be obese than pure
vegetarians are. Every time you eat animal products, you’re also
ingesting bacteria, antibiotics, dioxins, hormones, and a host of
other toxins that can accumulate in your body and remain there for
years.
Farming Family Values
Factory farms are pure hell for pigs and their babies. Mother pigs
spend most of their lives in tiny “gestation” crates, which are so
small that the animals are unable to turn around or even lie down
comfortably. They are repeatedly impregnated until they are
slaughtered. Piglets, who are taken away from their distraught
mothers after just a few weeks, have their tails chopped off, their
teeth are clipped off with pliers, and the males are castrated—all
without painkillers.
Pigs Have Feelings Too
Ninety-seven percent of pigs in the United States today are raised
in factory farms, where they will never run across sprawling
pastures, bask in the sun, breathe fresh air, or do anything else
that comes naturally to them. Crowded into warehouses with nothing
to do and nowhere to go, they are kept on a steady diet of drugs to
keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many
of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk.
Pigs and Playstations
Think that you can outplay a pig on your Playstation? You may be
surprised. According to research, pigs are much smarter than dogs,
and they even do better at video games than some primates. In fact,
pigs are extremely clever animals who form complex social networks
and have excellent memories. Eating a pig is like eating your dog!
As actor Cameron Diaz put it after hearing that pigs have the mental
capacities of a 3-year-old human: "[Eating bacon is] like eating my
niece!"
Pigs Prefer Mud, Not Crud
Pigs are actually very clean animals. If they are given sufficient
space, pigs are careful not to soil the areas where they sleep or
eat. And forget the silly saying “sweating like a pig”—pigs can’t
even sweat! That’s why they bathe in water or mud to cool off. But
in factory farms, they’re forced to live in their own feces and
vomit and even amid the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so
filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer
from mange—think of your worst case of poison ivy, and imagine
having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
The Manure Is Blowing in the Wind …
A pig farm with 5,000 animals produces as much fecal waste as a city
of 50,000 people. In 1995, 25 million gallons of putrid hog urine
and feces spilled into a North Carolina river, immediately killing
between 10 and 14 million fish. To get around water pollution
limits, factory farms will frequently take the tons of urine and
feces that are stored in cesspools and turn them into liquid waste
that they spray into the air. This manure-filled mist is carried
away by the wind and inhaled by the people who live nearby.
Bacteria-Laden Bacon and Harmful Ham
Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory
farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70 percent of them
have pneumonia by the time they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. In
order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would otherwise kill
them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs
on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human
illnesses. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of
“superbacteria,” or antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham,
bacon, and sausage that you’re eating may make the drugs that your
doctor prescribes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
Hell on Wheels
More than 170,000 pigs die in transport each year, and more than
420,000 are crippled by the time they arrive at the slaughterhouse.
Transport trucks, which carry pigs hundreds of miles through all
weather extremes with no food or water, regularly flip over,
throwing injured and dying animals onto the road. These terrified
and injured animals are rarely offered veterinary care, and most
languish in pain for hours; some even bleed to death on the side of
the road. After an accident in April 2005, Smithfield spokesperson
Jerry Hostetter told one reporter, “I hate to admit it, but it
happens all the time.”
Killing Them Without Kindness
A typical slaughterhouse kills up to 1,100 pigs every hour, which
makes it impossible for them to be given humane, painless deaths.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented 14 humane slaughter
violations at one processing plant, where inspectors found hogs who
“were walking and squealing after being stunned [with a stun gun] as
many as four times.” Because of improper stunning methods and
extremely fast line speeds, many pigs are still alive when they are
dumped into scalding-hot hair-removal tanks—they literally drown in
scalding-hot water.
goveg.com