“Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.” FirstsMadeAnimalSupportStreetsSavingBuyingShopsPetTreatmentVegetarianFarmsFactoriesShelterHomelessAdoptingTreatment Of AnimalsAnimal Shelter Author:Laura Mennell
“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.” IfsWayProblemWould BeHouseAnimalCompanyDogCatTreatedWelfareIllegalFarmsFactoriesSlaughterAnimal WelfareImpunity Author:Bruce Friedrich
“Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansCan DoAnimalStepsEnvironmentPlanetsTerribleSpreadBest ThingsVegetarianFactoriesGrossFarmingChange For The BetterFactory Farming Author:Christofer Drew
“In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.” PeopleMadeDifferentFormNamesAnimalCarTasteShapesFactoriesAirplaneCookiesDoughDifferent Names Book:Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn Source: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
“If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.” IfsMightCareAnswersAnimalEnvironmentBeing The BestFarmsFactoriesPesticidesIf You Care Author:Michael Pollan
“I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.” KnowsWantTryingBodySchoolAnimalFansCollegeHugeEatingHigh SchoolCleanFactoriesFarmingBeefFactory FarmingPoultry Author:Susanna Thompson
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” AmericaAnimalMillionsLandIndustryCitizensRiversFishesBillionsMilesTreatedCrueltyMeatFarmsFarmersFactoriesUnnecessaryUnspeakableMeat Industry Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.” YearsTwoAmericaWaterAnimalHalfAliveGrowingIndustryNeededDrugWasteMajorsYears AgoAccountsEnvironmentalConnectedLocalsStreamsTwo YearsChickensSwimmingFactoriesPollutionAgricultureThreatenedConfinedHormonesClosureTysonBacteriaArkansasTwo Years AgoOutbreaksMarylandShellfishWater PollutionNorthwestern Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.” PeopleIfsWayLooksWould BeTodayAnimalToo MuchRiskCreaturesComfortableEndureCaughtTreatedCrueltyUnconsciousFarmsFactoriesSevereVeilsConfinedConvenientTranceUnrelenting Author:John Robbins