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Horrifying Facts
This is an FYI of sorts for all you animal lovers. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund:
“In the U.S. alone, nine billion animals are raised in the most egregious factory farm conditions and brutally slaughtered for food every year. On top of that, we hunt 200 million animals annually, kill 20 million in research and testing, another 18 million for dissection, 4 – 5 million so we can kid ourselves that we look sexy in their fur and 5 million dogs and cats die each year in shelters because we treat them as disposable.”
We have some serious work to do people… go here to see how you can help. Also, start volunteering if you don’t already. Shelters and rescues are totally at their limits during this economic crisis. People are abandoning animals left and right because they “can’t afford them anymore,” “we’re moving,” “we had a baby,” etc. Unacceptable.
Tell me what you think about these heart-wrenching numbers in the comments.
Wow. This is pretty straightforward and I agree with you. it IS unacceptable.
These numbers are astonishing but just seeing them written out like that really hit me. This is atrocious.
This is so heart-breaking and I agree with AnimalLuvr…seeing the numbers just point blank like that really hurts. What have we done…? (We not being animal lovers, I should say “what have THEY done?”
now we’re depressed. when will humans learn to respect animals?
woofs.
Wow, this is such a letdown. What has the human race come to? How can we treat animals like this? I personally am a vegan so I am especially ashamed of factory farmers, furriers, and certain others. If you saw a factory farm I guarantee you would stop eating meat.
And as for the economy, thats NO REASON to abandon your pet and its happening here where I live to. Shelters are filled to the brim and theyre even losing foster homes because foster parents have to move cuz they cant afford their houses anymore.
This is so sad. Thank you for publicizing this.
This makes me sick to my stomach. I also am a vegetarian and only eat dairy from free range farms, which is HARD to find and more expensive. Imagine how many lives would be saved if people stopped eating cows…
We can see the impact of the economy through our involvement with vizsla rescue, which is totally swamped with animals. The other rescue groups are floundering too. Sad, sad, sad.
Hard to admit but its true.. others are work hard to breed while others work hard to kill or eat animal..
Certainly when I discovered the abuses done to animals I encountered “sticker shock”. I never realized the numbers were so astronomically high. But of course there are almost 7 billion people – and if we insist on abusing/killing/eating animal products these numbers will only increase.
The minimum one can do, if they are truly concerned with animal suffering is to go vegan. At the very least this ends animal’s as commodities of exploitation.
Unfortunately, even “free range” dairies are brutal to cows and calves. The cow still must be impregnated (artificially) – within 24 hours her baby is removed from her. If it is female she’ll eventually join the milking herd… If he’s a male, he’ll either be sent for immediate slaughter, or confined till he’s 4 months old to become “veal”. Also, most cheeses require “rennent” which is part of the contents of calves intestines… so you see even small farm dairies do not eliminate cruelty by any means…
Thanks for inviting comment – I think going vegan is a wonderful solution to 95% of all animal abuse!
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Very sad sad sad sad and unacceptable. Best thing to do is help out our shelters and pass on the message.
norwood
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ” Mahatma Gandhi
Guess we’re not doing so great:(
I am by no means a scollar in anything but I do believe that man was given dominion over the animals of the earth. Having said that, we also have a responsability to God, ourselves and the wprld in general to take care or it which includes the animals. I have many lovely cats, a few dogs and feed two small feral colonies. I’m pained each time I read in ther paper of dogs and cats on their final hours and then to read of their sad demise. One of my house cats is an “11th hour rescue” but the one thing all my little family members and many fof the erals have in common is they have been “fixed” (like they were broken). This is a wise choice in the reduction in the shelter population.
My suggestion to the world is; if you have a four legged extended family and you can no longer keep them, call a rescue group or get in contace with your local SPCA for a list of groups that can help.
God bless.