Factory Farm 360

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/mdi-factory-farm-360.html

FROM

Last Chance for Animals (LCA)
February 2015

The first interactive, 360-degree video of animal life on factory farms. Brought to you by LCA’s Sam Simon Special Investigations Unit.

WATCH THE TRUTH about Pig Farms

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• On a factory farm, a breeding pig spends most of her life in a gestation crate too small for her to turn around in. The confinement is maddening; pigs bite on the bars until their mouths are sore and bloody.
• After about four months, the mother is moved to a small, filthy maternity crate, where she will give birth and nurse her babies.
• The piglets’ back teeth are cut with pliers, and their tails are clipped. The males are castrated with no anesthetic, so the meat tastes more pleasing to consumers.
• Many piglets die of infection, or are crushed to death by their mother because her movement is so restricted. Dead piglets are gutted, and their intestines fed to mother pigs in an effort to immunize them from disease. After just weeks, the surviving piglets will be taken away and the mother re-impregnated.
• These facilities are breeding grounds for harmful bacteria like salmonella, so pigs are given steady doses of antibiotics, spawning antibiotic-resistant germs.
• Workers deface the pigs’ bodies with spray paint to mark their status, like whether they’re pregnant or that it’s time for them to die. Some workers have spray-painted “kill” or “die” right on animals’ backs.
• Nearly all pork at grocery stores and restaurants in the U.S. – including bacon, ham and pork sausage – comes from these farms, where the pigs endure excruciating suffering every day of their lives.
• You can help end this torture by choosing cruelty-free meatless options instead of pork.

WATCH THE TRUTH about Free-Range Egg Farms

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• This is a “free range” egg farm, but these hens are far from free. They know only concrete and metal, and beneath the grating under their feet sits piles of urine and manure.
•  Dead hens rot among the living, spreading their disease.
• All of these hens’ brothers were killed the day they were born, because to the egg industry, they are worthless.
• In the U.S., no government-regulated standards exist for “free range” farms. Hens may go outside for just minutes a day. Some birds never even get outdoors, because access is blocked by the crowds.
• The crowding and filth create a breeding ground for bacteria and parasites, making both birds and humans sick.
• This is cruel, and it’s happening right now to hens all over the world. Help end their suffering by choosing plant-based alternatives to eggs and other animal products. Together, we can stop farm cruelty.

WATCH THE TRUTH about “Broiler” Chicken Farms

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• You are in a room of thousands of other “broiler” chickens, where you will spend your entire life never seeing sunlight.
• Beneath you is a sludge of litter, urine and manure; it has so much ammonia, it’s burning your feathers off, so your chest is sore and bald.
• You’ve been bred for constant hunger, and the lights are on all night to keep you awake and eating.
• You’re so obese, you cannot stand (If you were a 10-year-old child, you’d weigh 500 pounds by now).
• You probably have salmonella or another sickening bacteria, spawned from the overcrowding and filth.
• Sound like torture? It is. And it’s reality for chickens found at nearly all stores and restaurants in the U.S.

Rescued Chicken–Pigs’ Pease Sanctuary