Is the meat industry REALLY that cruel to animals?

Most farmed animals live their lives on factory farms, where they endure, cramped, disease-ridden, conditions before they are slaughtered. ... The factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs—always at the animals' expense. The giant corporations that ... You can help end this abuse. read more

They tackle everything, including the food industry. The Food Empowerment Project gets into many aspects of the good that results from a vegan diet, and also, thankfully, covers human abuse in the food industry, for example child slave labor in harvesting chocolate. UPC is concerned not only with poultry, but other issues of animal abuse. read more

The factory farming industry strives to maximize output while minimizing costs—always at the animals’ expense. The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by squeezing as many animals as possible into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals die from disease or infection. read more

In its scrutiny of Big Meat – a cartel of corporations that have swallowed family farms, moved the animals indoors to prison-style plants in the middle of rural nowhere, far from the gaze of nervous consumers, and bred their livestock to and past exhaustion – the Humane Society (and outfits like PETA and Mercy for Animals) is performing a service that the federal government can’t, or won’t, render: keeping an eye on the way American meat is grown. read more