Factory Farming and Agriculture
Eating Meat Causes Suffering
"Another species of farmers are the animal-ghetto wardens. Animals are kept in animal-ghettos
and are raised on a cleverly devised, profit-oriented fattening feed that is not right for their species,
always with the thought: The animal is a commodity that should be sold well,
for the benefit of animal cannibalism. The meat consumers are then offered pieces of the carcass
of a creature that had to eke out a horrible existence under the heels of the animal warden,
and that from birth on already bore the stamp of death – for the animal cannibals, who then consume
the flesh of the enslaved and fattened animal.
The cruelties seem endless. The animal mothers who likewise are condemned to death in the animal ghettos
have their young taken away from them by the animal wardens, so that the latter can offer their milk
and all products made from it to the consumers. The animal young, like their mothers, also bear
the stamp of death – for the consumer, who pleasurably consumes the carcass pieces and the
milk products that are enriched with unspeakable suffering.
"
(From Gabriele Letter No. 4)
See also: The Ecological Consequences of
Factory Farming
See also: The Death of
Billons of Micro-organisms
.