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Loading...Five Simple Ways to Be Part of ‘World Farm Animals Day’
Which attitude attracts you: the “ignorance is bliss” camp or “knowledge is power” platform?
How many people actually think through the journey an animal makes from birth to dinner plate?
When it comes to factory farming the truth can be painful and distasteful. In addition to “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” (which actually might hurt you) there’s that old adage — “the truth will set you free.”
A short documentary by Farm Sanctuary titled Life Behind Bars and narrated by Mary Tyler Moore is an eye-opener. It describes the life cycle of factory farmed pigs, chickens and cows and compares that to the normal life of their non-factory-farmed cousins.
Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3GMv9FAPY
What One Organization is Doing
Since 1983 FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) has been holding ‘World Farm Animals Day,’ coordinating annual campaigns to educate people around the globe about the truth of factory farms. The 2010 theme is Holding Animal Agribusiness Accountable. The date of October 2 is to honor the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a true believer in the rights of all living beings.
The organization states “animal agribusiness manipulates the government, institutions and a well-meaning public in order to sell more cruel products.” FARM is a Bethesda, Maryland based animal action group advocating veganism as a way to prevent animal cruelty, improve the environment, promote healthy living and address world hunger.
For example, the recent salmonella-induced egg recall in Iowa is due to conditions at hen-laying factory farms.
What You Can Do
Not everybody has the soul of an activist. But for those special humans who do, why not consider organizing an event in your community for ‘World Farm Animals Day’ this year?
You don’t have to be a rabble-rouser and stage “cage ins” — although it certainly would make a statement!
- Set up information tables for leafleting at animal-friendly events and stores. You would be surprised what a little public education can do.
- By holding demonstrations at slaughterhouses, fast food restaurants or dairy and egg industry offices you can spread the word on how animals suffer on factory farms. And more importantly, how to change society’s dependence on them.
- FARM has a web page dedicated to learning how to organize your community through demonstrations or other protests and public education events.
- You can request an Event Packet which includes materials. Don’t forget to register your event with FARM for additional press coverage.
- Can’t find the time to help this year? Kindly pass this information along to anyone you know who may be willing and able to bring the cause of inherently cruel factory farming to the forefront of public awareness.
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+ add your ownbeans and legumes....cheese.. all good protein
Soy 4 protein.
I find that rather than soy beverage as a replacement for cow milk, rice beverage is great. Especially for people who grew up drinking skim milk, rice beverage isn't quite as thick as soy beverage.
This is really interesting though, and I will think about ordering and passing out pamphlets! I will have to convince my parents first: they love that I'm aware of what's going on in the world, but they don't exactly like hearing about it all the time because they don't have the same passion for setting the world on a better path.
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i can not stress this enough, read labels! gelatine hides in a lot of foods and vitamins. i was shocked to find it in my sons soy yogurt and our multi vitamin which stated vegetarian. beware your calcium sources. vitamin d3 is animal derived but vitamin d2 is vegetable derived. also dont forget honey. with the future of the honey bee none too certain we as vegetarians and vegans should strive to eliminate it from our diets as well. after all most comercial bee farms are filthy disgusting disease filled facilities where the bees are only kept for their output and when they arent producing enough they are killed. sound familiar?
Humane treatment should come before profits but our profit motivation system is set up to maximize profits for a few who are officers and major stockholders. Our profit locomotive is driving us loco...
Tried to make people aware about factory farming, the most shocking response was "I love meat, don't care where it comes from or how it's produced" My visitors get mostly vegetarian food, and they love it. Vegetarian food at least 6 times a week is much better for us.
@ Bryony Kirkpatrick - Thanks for your support, but I must correct your comment:"I am not a Vegan. I don't believe it hurts the chicken to lay an egg; they'd do that anyway or the cow to be milked". You do know that by stealing their egg, they must lay another to replace it. Hens only naturally lay between 15-35 eggs per year, not 300. This is because they are brooding when they lay an egg and expect it to hatch. When the egg is stolen, they lay a replacement. Factory-farmed chickens can lay up to 500 eggs per year! This drains their bodies of nourishing nutrients and their bodies suffer. This shortens their lifespan significantly and are slaughtered after a couple of years.This practice never allows them to brood, like nature intended. Read it here from Care2: http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/questions-to-ask-your-egg-farmer/. As for dairy cows, they are probably the most abused of our farm animals. They are kept pregnant, so they lactate. This milk is for the calves, not humans. Once they give birth, the calf is taken away from the mother within 12 hours. If it is a female, it has the same future as it's mother. If it's a male and they don't need another bull, it is either used for veal or killed. The cow is then hooked up to an automatic milking machine daily. When the milk supply gets low, they impregnate her again. This happens over and over and over again until she is no longer useful and then slaughtered for human or pet food. There's no free milk!
Im trying with veggy mondays!!
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