Myth # 81 : " But the animals don ' t suffer that much ." ( also heard as " You vegans focus only on the extreme cases .")
Myth # 81 : " But the animals don ' t suffer that much ." ( also heard as " You vegans focus only on the extreme cases .")
This myth is an extreme example of convenience & comfort completely shortcircuiting rational thought . Indeed , it is extremely well-documented and a fully undeniable fact that the vast majority of animals killed for food around the world ( more than 3000 of them every second ) suffer immensely & horrifically for the entirety of their lives . Indeed , practically every single animal that is confined & enslaved – in order to one day inevitably be murdered in its adolescence , to thereafter be processed into “ meat ” – suffers through a savage variety of practices that are nothing short of barbaric , and in many ways patently cruel … Feel free to consider the following examples – all of which are still standard practice in the meat & dairy &/ or egg industries today :
* Chickens … Upon hatching , chicks are sorted by sex , with non-profitable male chicks being either immediately ground up by a macerator ( while still alive !) or slowly suffocated by the thousands in dumpsters and garbage bags … Female chicks have the sensitive tips of their beaks burned off without anesthesia , are over-fed to stimulate unnaturally rapid growth , are locked into tiny cages or overcrowded “ free range ’ hutches , have their eggs repeatedly taken from them ( stimulating them to produce on average ten times more eggs per year than they normally would – causing their bodies to prematurely “ burn out ” after only 1.5 to 2 years ), whereupon they are literally crammed into transport trucks ( where roughly 1.7 million of them die horrific , claustrophobic deaths in the U . S . alone every year ) to be sent to a violent & terrifying slaughterhouse death .
Objective conclusion : over 99 % of all farmed chickens suffer immensely during the entirety of their dark , short lives – with the remaining 1 % having slightly better lives , but still dying brutally in their adolescence as well .
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