- More chickens are slaughtered each year in the US than there are people in the world.
- Chicken naturally live for 6 or more years, most are dead by six weeks.
- Male chickens of the egg breeds are killed within 72 hours of hatching, many by being discarded, live, into grinders.
It's easy to draw a few conclusions:
- The egg industry is a machine of genocide, killing half of chickens at birth, keeping the other half as slaves.
- At birth the date of death is already decided, welcome to Auschwitz.
- For these animals, there is no hope, there is no one coming to save them and they will die against their will as infants at the hand of man.
Are we all being good and moral by not involving ourselves with this by being vegan, vegetarian or, shudder, - 'flexitarian'? Yes, in part we are, but only to the same extent that we can claim to be good moral people by not exhibiting the same behavior towards humans. How crazy would it be to hear someone say, "You know, I try to be good, I gave up murdering people, I don't keep any slaves in my dungeon and I have't orchestrated any war crimes recently." Hmmm!
I don't know about you, but I would find it very hard to sleep at night knowing this is going on and I'm not doing anything to stop it.
We are born free, a luxury that not all our fellow earthlings have. Use your voice, write to businesses, sign petitions, tell your friends about compassion, be an example, show love, kindness, adopt, make a donation, invite people for cruelty free meals, support ethical businesses! Use your anger in a positive way, it's the catalyst for change.
To acknowledge suffering is bad is to acknowledge veganism is good!
If you haven't done so already, check out the video in that last post, he's a fantastic speaker :)
