The meat, eggs, and dairy products that you consume no longer come from the small family farms that you see in children's books. They're produced in intensive factory farms, where animals suffer from confinement, routine bodily mutilations, and painful slaughter techniques.
Chickens are killed when they are less than 2 months old, pigs are slaughtered at the age of 6 months, and cows barely see their first birthday.
Animals are shoved, kicked, and tossed into crowded trucks for long, often crippling rides through sweltering heat or freezing rain to the slaughterhouse. Food, water, and veterinary care aren't "wasted" on animals who are going to be killed. Countless animals arrive at the slaughterhouse with broken bones or other injuries - or dead.
Workers hoist them upside-down and slit their throats. Some animals are stunned, but many animals are completely conscious kicking and crying out, as they are skinned and cut to pieces.
AWESOME BOOK!! :D I imagine Tom Hanks in my head all the time, lol..
and i can't barely move, all my muscles are aching :( but the gym gets kinda boring, so i think i want to start training ninjutsu.. i've always wanted to be a ninja!! :D:D
