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Sanoff said that education schools often sit low on the pecking order at large universities and can suffer as a result...
...ourselves—and the animals we’re eating—to uncover the truth behind modern-day industrial agriculture and what affects our purchasing decisions have. The unfortunate reality we must face is that animals raised for food in factory farms suffer immensely for almost the entirety of their lives...
...slaughtered every hour. Over their 45-day average lifetime, the chickens are overcrowded inside filthy sheds on factory farms where they live amidst their own waste. But the most serious welfare problem for these birds is their selective breeding, which causes them to grow so quickly that they suffer from painful heart and lung ailments and crippling leg disorders. Thirty years ago, researchers reported in the Veternary Report, “We consider that birds might have been bred to grow so fast that they are on the verge of structural collapse.” Thirty years of further selective...
Their mothers suffer even greater mistreatment. Like chickens in battery cages, sows are confined in individual metal crates so restrictive that they can’t turn around or even move side to side more than a few inches. They withstand cycles of impregnation, gestation, and giving birth. Intense frustration results in debilitating stress-induced behaviors such as biting on cage bars and obsessive sucking on their water bottles...
It’s uncomfortably obvious that the meat, egg, and dairy industries treat animals as inanimate machines without regard for their welfare. The abuses farm animals suffer are so egregious that if dogs and cats were treated similarly, the perpetrators could be charged with animal cruelty. All of these animals can feel pain and suffering. The only difference is that some are regarded as pets, while others are seen as breakfast, lunch, or dinner...