For many people, red meat is the first thing to be
eliminated from their diets. Unfortunately, that often means that they end up
eating more chicken.
Here’s how switching to chicken hurts more animals:
While all farmed animals experience
tremendous suffering, chickens lead
some of the most miserable lives of all farmed animals, and comprise 95 percent of the animals
raised and killed for food in the U.S.
Multiple undercover investigations by Mercy For Animals at
chicken farms throughout the country have exposed horrific cruelty to animals, including birds bred to grow so fast
they become crippled under their own weight, workers violently punching,
beating, and stabbing animals, and birds having their heads ripped off while
they are still alive and conscious.
See for yourself:
It probably goes without saying, but because chickens are much smaller animals, many more of them need to
be killed to get the same poundage of other meats. In fact, it
takes more than 200 chickens to produce the same amount of meat as just one
cow!
Unfortunately, not a
single federal law provides protection to animals during their lives on
factory farms, and the law that’s supposed to protect animals at the
slaughterhouse, the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, only extends to cows and
pigs, leaving chickens with virtually no protection from abuse.
Chickens are incredibly intelligent creatures, with the same capacity to feel pain
and suffering as the dogs and cats with whom we share our homes. Although
they may not be as cute and cuddly as other farmed animals, they are still
individuals with needs and desires that shouldn’t be disregarded.
Luckily, we can all take a stand for all animals subjected
to cruel factory farm conditions by ditching animal products in favor of
healthy, humane alternatives.
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