1. On factory farms, piglets have their tails painfully sliced into and yanked
off with dull clippers. Males suffer agonizing castration. All of this is done to
them without anesthetics.
2. Egg-laying hens are confined in cages so small the birds are unable to
stretch their wings, walk freely, or engage in other basic behaviors.
3. In an effort to maximize profit, factory farmers keep animals
in cramped, disease-ridden conditions. Many won’t see the sun until they’re on
their way to the slaughterhouse.
4. Farmers use pliers to pull the skin off of live fish. Dozens of
fish, gasping for oxygen, are crammed into buckets and baskets. They often
flail and struggle trying to escape the workers’ knives.
5. The dairy industry rips baby calves away from their mothers
when they’re only a day old. This calf will be slaughtered for veal,
a byproduct of the dairy industry.
6. It’s standard practice in the pork industry to “thump
piglets. This is when farmers slam the piglets headfirst into the ground because
they won’t meet a size requirement or are sick and deemed a waste.
7. Cows exploited for dairy are impregnated over
and over again to produce milk. When their milk production slows down, they’re
slaughtered for meat.
8. Since male chicks will never lay eggs and don’t grow quickly
enough to be raised profitably for meat, they’re killed within hours of
hatching. These young animals are often ground up alive in macerators.
9. Tail docking is a relatively common practice. It involves
cutting through the sensitive skin, nerves, and bones of calves’ tails without
any painkillers.
10. Done by the egg and poultry industries, debeaking is when factory farmers painfully cut off the tip of a bird’s beak, usually with a hot blade.
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